AB/ABMeetCandidates2023/AB Candidate Questionnaire/Heejin Chung

Q1: What priorities should the AB take on in the next year? How will you help accomplish them?

The top priority is at the moment the Vision document, which will also be used for stabilizing our new organization.
It will be the basis for moving forward to Director free, guideline for incubation and finding consensus in especially conflicting situations.

One of the ongoing responsibilities of the AB is diversity and inclusion.
How we write our vision and communicate it should help in growing diversity, but I think the AB can achieve more on the inclusion side.
We need to lower the barrier to W3C participation by making information easier to find and read, and sharing more information across various groups.

Q2：The AB positions are unpaid but require regular meetings at inconvenient times/locations, preparation for said meetings, and collaboration with people you might disagree with. Why do you personally wish to take this on?

Being on the AB is definitely time and energy consuming, even more if English isn't your default language.
However, the AB achievements - the legal entity launch, council experiments, getting better at consensus, ... - were totally worth it.
And I believe listening to different perspectives helps widen our view as long as we respect each other - which I trust the AB is capable of.
I also didn't want to miss out on a opportunity to contribute to making the web better for the future generation.

Q3：Attending meetings is not enough to be an effective member of the AB. What else do you expect to do to contribute to the AB's activities?

Keeping up and contributing to the asynchronous discussions going on in GitHub is also an essential activity for AB members.
During my last term, I've reached out to members a few times to gather input or concerns regarding the Legal Entity transition.
I will continue the effort to make sure voices of smaller communities are also delivered to our governing bodies.

Q4：How do you think W3C should build consensus in large groups, and can you speak to your ability & experience building consensus (at W3C or elsewhere)?

Finding consensus in such a diverse community as W3C is very challenging.
We should constantly remind ourselves about what we are trying to solve. And try to keep our minds more open, agree that there can be several ways to reach our common goal.

I try to remind my team (which is located in several continents, and often have conflict with other teams) to
- remember that we have a common goal. First agree on the common goal. We aren't competing against each other.
- make arguments based on facts not assumptions. Especially don't make assumptions about other peoples arguments, if something isn't clear, go talk to them.

Q5：How can W3C improve its diversity and inclusion, and what is the role of the AB in improving those?

We need to understand what difficulties various communities have when participating in W3C and find effective ways to lower that barrier.
Talking more to members in smaller communities, giving input to Member Relations, and continuously enhancing our documentation are activities come to mind.

Q6：There is a proposal for an AC Chair. What do you think of the idea? Who should do the job (not naming individuals, describe the role, position)

I think an AC Chair could help in making sure that discussions in AC forum that are important and need to be concluded do get concluded.
The Chair can also make sure voices of the community reach the AB and other governing bodies of W3C so they can be addressed properly and in a timely fashion.