- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 09:20:02 -0800
- To: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@topologi.com>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Rick Jelliffe wrote: > Am I right in thinking that all members of the TAG are now residents of North America? No. Chris Lilley is a resident of France and Stuart Williams of Britain. The national makeup of the TAG is interesting: 3 Canadians (Bray/Cotton/Orchard), three British (Berners-Lee/Lilley/Williams) and three Americans (Connolly/Fielding/Walsh). > If so, does the TAG feel that this may compromise their ability or credability to architect > a "World Wide" Web to some degree? Or, as a lesser question, does the TAG feel they > are actively encouraging and perpetuating a centre-periphery divide between dominant > regions and dominated regions? We have observed with regret more than once that the TAG is composed entirely of middle-aged white guys who are native speakers of English. Since this is supposed to be a technical activity, I'd be worried more about the fact that we're all anglophones, except for we have pretty good i18n expertise on-board and via callout to people like Duerst and you. I know for a fact that there are people in various combinations of non-male non-white non-native-English-speaker who are plenty well qualified to be on the TAG. Do I think that increasing the diversity would have any impact on the outcomes of our technical discussions? No. Do I think that it might be potentially of symbolic value? Maybe. > Will the TAG consider altering its membership rules to encourage diversity? The TAG doesn't make its membership rules, so you need to talk to the AB and AC. -- Cheers, Tim Bray (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)
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