AB/ABMeetCandidates2023/AB Candidate Questionnaire/Song Xu
Q1: What priorities should the AB take on in the next year? How will you help accomplish them?
ANSWER: In short, to focus on developer community, drive the work in planning vision.
Before making plan, working on vision document and concrete roles defined in W3C, one of the priorities for AB is: Get the voice from developer community.
- Focus on the local developer community, think about why their participation in some working group is not high?
- Incubate new technologies from the developer community to give developer a sense of participation.
- Increase the awareness of W3C and web technology in the developer community. Taking the technology promotion activities of the 2022 World Cup as an example, by involving technology topics in the top-level IP events, the resources of members can be effectively utilized.
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?
ANSWER: For W3C AB candidates and participants, all of us has basic belief, including sharing spirit for Internet and volunteer spirit for developer communities.
We are volunteers. The spirit emphasizes selfless dedication rather than just taking. While serving others, we enrich professional experiences, improve the ability to interact with others cross the world, and enhance the social responsibility of member organizations.
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?
ANSWER: local + global communities.
- Work on local developer communities: AB would make face-to-face visits and communication with members.
- Cover the global developer communities: Collaborate with other AB's. Organize work meetings to synchronize the survey and research of local communities to all AB representatives.
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)?
ANSWER: Respect the bottom line interests of member representatives and strive for the common interests of the developer community.
- China Mobile itself is a large group of over 500000 employees, and my daily work is to collaborate and communicate among hundreds of institutions
- In large international organizations such as ITU, CCSA, 3GPP, DVB, AVS, etc., work experience is achieved through consensus with global representatives from various industries
- My experience as co-chair at WNIG at W3C is to analyze the impact of conflicting opinions on different member organizations, through the relatively neutral platform role of network operators. To achieve maximum consensus through a communication approach of seeking common ground while reserving differences.
Q5：How can W3C improve its diversity and inclusion, and what is the role of the AB in improving those?
ANSWER: Research the difference and find the root cause when improving diversity and inclusion.
The role of AB is to leverage its advantages in their respective fields (browser, front-end, back-end, distribution, operations, and professional areas such as multimedia services, security and privacy). Use AB’s advantages of each domains. It requires mutual collaboration to cover all member units without deviation.
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)
ANSWER:
- Encourage the local developer communities to speak out.
- Coordinate the global developer communities to reach agreement.
- Help the W3C working groups to standardize and benefit all.