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Possible W3C Advisory Board Nomination #197

Closed michaelchampion closed 1 year ago

michaelchampion commented 1 year ago

The W3C Advisory Board will have an election to 4 seats opening because AB members elected to the Board of Directors have all decided they are too busy to do both. OpenJS Foundation should consider whether we want to nominate a candidate. We have until 30 November to decide.

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2022OctDec/0015.html has the details.

As announced by Léonie Watson in 1 November email to the AC [1], David Singer, Eric Siow, Léonie Watson, and Hongru (Judy) Zhu are resigning from the Advisory Board effective 2 January 2023.

Per section 3.3.3.5 of the Process [2], when those seats become vacant they will be up for election at the next regularly scheduled AB election (to start in April 2023). The AB chairs have requested an earlier election to begin in December to fill the remaining terms of those seats. They have further requested that we call for nominations immediately without an advance notice period.

This is a Call for Nominations for an election to begin on 2 December and end on 14 January to fill those vacancies. Three of the terms

Unlike previous AB elections, the nominations are public as soon as they are made, see https://www.w3.org/2022/11/ab-nominations . I suggest we track this URL and periodically assess whether the existing candidates list has a good set of qualified people, and consider nominating someone if not. Likewise, we should be open to others not affiliated with a W3C member but asks for us to nominate them.

ljharb commented 1 year ago

What are the requirements for candidates?

michaelchampion commented 1 year ago

You don’t have to work for a W3C member, there have been several “invited experts” serving on the AB.

Not sure if there are formal requirements beyond not working for the same company as another AB member, agreeing to follow the Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, etc..

https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB/Being_on_the_AB is an informal “job description”, but was written before the responsibility to serve on Formal Objection Councils was added. If you can't access that, it says the AB requires about 4-6 hours a week for native English speakers to keep up with everything. In addition there are 2 one hour calls per months and 4 or 5 3-day face to face (generally with remote options) meetings a year. I don't know about FO handling, that's probably a couple of days' work for each FO that can't be resolved, maybe 5 a year.

On Nov 2, 2022, at 11:44 AM, Jordan Harband @.***> wrote:

What are the requirements for candidates?

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