This is the list of nominees for the 2017 Election to the W3C Advisory Board (AB). Each person has been nominated by at least one W3C Member according to the AB election process.
The W3C Membership elects the AB. For this election W3C will fill four seats.
Note: The deadline for votes is 23:59 ET, 31 May 2017.
The following statements were sent about the nominees (in alphabetical order by nominee family name):
An asterisk (*) indicates that the nominee is a current participant.
Michael Champion has served on the Advisory Board since 2010, as Microsoft's representative on the Advisory Committee since 2007, and as a participant, editor, and co-chair in various working groups starting in 1997. Over these 20 years, he has represented several companies ranging from a small startup to large multinational corporations. This provides a diverse perspective on the value W3C provides to the larger web community, the mechanics of building useful and authoritative web standards, and the challenges of maintaining an effective organization.
If re-elected to the Advisory Board, he will use this broad perspective to help the W3C management and membership accelerate its rate of adaption to a fast-changing world. W3C must come to grips with the reality the those “leading the Web” today are working at OSS projects and startup companies; the most part these innovators have been too busy to engage in W3C, and too moving too fast to wait for standards to follow..
W3C needs to adapt its mission, culture, and value proposition to be attractive
to those people, while retaining the core principles that have guided it all
along. Specific things to explore include:
- positioning W3C as a “curator, building consensus on which innovations as
well as established technologies are the best foundation for the future.
- building productive relationships with OSS projects and other SDOs rather
then developing competing standards, or pressing to standardize technologies
that haven’t stabilized.
- doing whatever it takes to get more hands-on web developers engaged in W3C
to be pragmatic advocates for the real challenges people have building and
using the web.
- adding value by the depth and length of the perspective the W3C community
offers, helping the community understand where work is happening, and how
to best shape the direction it is going.
Rick Johnson is the Vice President of Product Strategy, and one of the founders of VitalSource Technologies, Inc. Now a division of the Ingram Content Group, VitalSource is the maker of Bookshelf®, the most widely used platform for delivery of electronic textbooks in the world. As VP of Product Strategy, Rick manages the strategic direction of the fast growing platform, guiding the architecture, and implementation of its clients and systems.
Rick's career has been focused on bringing together his three passions: technology, publishing, and education. He is a frequent speaker on electronic textbooks, their integration into an institutional environment, and how the accessibility needs of individual students can best be accommodated in their delivery. He has served on multiple committees addressing the needs around delivering accessible content to students, was a member of the working groups responsible for version 2 and version 3 of the EPUB standard, currently serves on the board of directors for IMSGlobal and the IDPF, is the co-inventor of 3 domestic and international patents dealing with electronic books and their distribution, currently serves as the AC rep for VitalSource and the Ingram Content Group, co-chair of the W3C Publishing Business Group, co-chair of the steering committee of Publishing@W3C, and Chair of BISG's EPUB Working Group.
Prior to Ingram and VitalSource, Rick spent more than 12 years with Apple Computer, Inc. As a Senior National Consulting Engineer for them he was instrumental in the implementation of complex solutions for many higher education and corporate customers, and received numerous national and international awards.
As a member of the advisory board, Rick would work to bring his experience in technology, education, and publishing to the guidance and governance of the W3C, their new efforts with publishing, and coordinating the many diverse activities and strategic directions as the W3C team, as a whole, navigates the many changes and challenges that we are all facing.
A graduate of the communication and business departments of Biola University in 1984, Rick has lived in the Phoenix area with his family since they moved from Southern California in 1991. Married to his wife Susie for more than 30 years, together they have raised two children, and are very active in their church and community. Rick also serves on the board of directors for several non-profit ministries.
To succeed in its mission W3C needs to take a pragmatic approach to solving real problems, that takes into account the broad diversity of its membership both in areas of interest and in size and power. The Advisory Board's role is to ensure that the Team has a good sounding board to represent the perspectives of all kinds of members, and to help find the "sweet spots" where a useful consensus can be achieved, as well as identify and fix issues before they become glaring problems that distract from getting work done.
Many people in the AC know me personally, and can offer their own judgement on my independence, capability, and ability to get work done. I come with a broad global perspective and a deep understanding of the history of W3C - both the achievements and the mistakes that have been made.
I have been on the AB longer than any current participant, including the staff: since 2009, through two different employers (Opera and Yandex). I have been an AC rep since 2005, was a team member 1998-2005, and have been participating in W3C continuously since 1997.
I co-chair the Web Platform Working Group that is now delivering regular updates for HTML, DOM, and a variety of APIs and other specs, and co-chaired its previous versions, the Web Apps and Web APIs working groups over the last 10-odd years. I have been and still am a spec editor, I've been the editor of the W3C Process document since that work started again a few years ago, and I am still familiar with the daily realities of W3C work, from investigating and starting brand-new work right through to the maintenance of old specifications - or moving them to obsolete status.
This history and continued active involvement in W3C gives me the perspective and knowledge to continue effectively helping the W3C focus on what is important to its members and the Web.
But to do this for the AB I also need your vote - under the new system, that means giving a high ranking - ideally number 1, but certainly in the top 3 (voting 5-7 is for deciding whom you most want to keep *out* of the AB).
As always, feel free to ask questions or talk to me in private, about issues that you think are important or because you want to understand my perspective. And whether for me or not, please do vote. Participation from across the membership - not just the "big players" - is key to W3C successfully improving the Web.
I’m pleased to announce that I am running for the W3C's Advisory Board. The Advisory Board at W3C provides guidance to the W3C team and membership on items such as strategy, the standardisation process and general management. You can find out more about the AB.
I've been working with the W3C since 2012 across various groups, chairing the Web and Mobile Interest Group. During this time I have also been an active participant at IETF; as well as managing my role as the Internet and Web Director at GSMA. I hope to bring this understanding of association management and span of experience across internet, web and telecoms to the AB.
The AB has done a fantastic job of increasing the global reach of the W3C and improving the standards process. Most individuals working within standards will understand that normal lives do not slow for standards making; so working on tooling and making the W3C an easy place for anyone to work on standards will be one of my top priorities. Using my experience of working in Japan and within other global organisations I hope to work on methods to encourage and keep bright individuals from across the world working on W3C standards.
The openness of the web is one of the true benefits of the web to users, developers and society. Innovating the web to keep it comparable and even better than other platforms is a priority across the W3C. I hope my involvement in the AB will contribute greatly to this; enabling progressive web applications to be secure, innovative and function across network scenarios.
Finally, I hope to use my own and others experiences of working within W3C to understand how groups of all sizes and histories can improve their consensus building, charter development and stakeholder involvement. Listening to all W3C attendees and members will make up most of my role; acting for everyone's interests is next.
Many thanks for getting to the end! If you’d like to speak to me directly about my AB nomination please email me at nrooney(at)gsma.com or get in contact on Twitter @thisNatasha.
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Chris Wilson is a Developer Advocate at Google, and has been on the Advisory Board since July 2013, helping improve the W3C's strategy in openness and agility and charting the path for good standards production in the future. He's had a 24-year long career in the Web, from engineering the early NCSA Mosaic browser for Windows through a 15-year career at Microsoft working on Internet Explorer, to his current role at Google advocating for web developers. He's been involved with the W3C nearly since its inception; he was a founding member of the CSS Working Group, and has participated in (and chaired) a number of Working Groups and other efforts over the past couple of decades. His statement follows:
I've been fortunate to be elected to the W3C Advisory Board twice. During my previous terms, I've joined my colleagues in advocating for more openness, more open licensing, and making W3C work better with the web developer community, and I believe we've made great progress. For example, in order to make the web more agile for everyone, I helped create and currently co-chair the Web Incubation Community Group, which has helped rationalize developing standards.
My fundamental goals are to make the W3C more effective by making it easier to engage developers and vendors, and focus the W3C's resources to make more impactful standards. This is not a one-size-fits-all solution; but I believe we need to be more agile and effective, and always be focused on realizing the potential of the web, not just individual interests. I believe that process and policies are required to do our best work - but they also need to be streamlined, and as much as possible, they should never stand in the way of exploring and shaping the future of the web.
If re-elected, I will continue to bring my pragmatic bent and practical experience working with (and helping evolve) a variety of standards organization models and processes to the Advisory Board, will continue to drive for maximizing the effectiveness of the W3C, and will continue my efforts to make the W3C process more usable for everyone.
I am the head of technology development division of the technology department in China Mobile. I am management of digital services research & development more than 15years.I have participated in the 3GPP, OMA and other telecommunications industry standards international organizations.
China Mobile endeavors to contribute to the implementation of the "Internet+" action plan. By way of specialized operation and cultivation of innovation, we are making active expansion in the areas of mobile internet, cloud computing, big data and IoT. We have established multiple specialized branch companies, including CM digital contents(MIGU), CM Enterprise, CM Internet, CM IoT, CM Terminals, which focus on applications and services of individual customer, enterprise and home. We further consolidated the product lines including "and-Entertainment", "and-Communication" and "and-Life", and promoted centralized operation of products such as unified communication for enterprise customers, IDC, smart home and internet television. We also introduced industry specified informatization products including "and-Education", "and-Health" and Internet of Vehicles, and commercially launched Mobile Cloud. At the same time, we have built the world's largest public IoT which has a terminal capacity of several billions.
If elected, I will be more from the perspective of telecom operators on the future of WEB technology requirement and recommendations. In especial I will focus on WEB technology for 5G, AI and the Internet of things and so on, to form a new development of WEB technology.
Judy (Hongru) Zhu is the Standardization Director in Alibaba Group, and she is also a senior expert in security. She is leading Standardization Department in Alibaba Group, and responsible for Alibaba's standardization-related activities. She has 16 years of professional standardization experiences. She is a board member of FIDO, Area Director of the operator area in ONF, vice chair of CCSA TC 11, and she has served various leadership positions in 3GPP, CCSA, NITS, etc.
She has served as Advisory Board member in W3C from 2015 to 2017. During these two years, she has actively with passion contributed to strategy discussion in the AB to improve the W3C global and help on the procedure generally, actively presented in AB meetings and shared thoughts and ideas. She had provided detailed suggestions on various topics, for example, security enhancement, guidance about global participation, accessibility, maintenance, funding, tools etc. She had also managed Alibaba to attend the W3C work on the Automotive, Web Payment, Web App Security, Web Security, Privacy, Web Platform etc.
After joining Alibaba, She has persistently promoted Alibaba Group to join W3C by recognizing the W3C’s value. We believe that Judy surely has the ability to serve as Advisory Board member to help W3C on its future development to achieve strategic decisions.
If re-elected to the Advisory Board, she will try her best to help W3C to lead the web to its full potential, and she looks forward to helping W3C to be more globalized, making the W3C process more usable/ effective,/ efficient, increasing collaboration between W3C and industries, increasing agility in the W3C to develop and publish Web Standards, and focusing more on security and privacy.
She has company support from necessary aspects to accomplish the duties and responsibilities in this area. We appreciate your support in the AB election.