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    Running For Re-election in the 2025 W3C Advisory Board (AB) Election

    Tantek Çelik is nominated by Mozilla Foundation.
    Nomination statement from Tantek Çelik:

    Hi, I'm Tantek Çelik and I'm running for the W3C Advisory Board (AB) to build on the momentum the AB has built with transitioning W3C to a community-led and values-driven organization. I have been participating in and contributing to W3C groups and specifications for over 25 years.

    I am Mozilla’s Advisory Committee (AC) representative and previously served on the AB for several terms, starting in 2013, with a two year break before returning in 2020. In early years I drove the movement to shift W3C to more open licenses for specifications, and more responsiveness to the needs of open source communities and independent website publishers.

    Most recently on the AB I led the AB’s Priority Project for a W3C Vision as contributor and editor, taking it through wide review, and consensus at the AB to a vote by the AC to adopt the Vision as an official W3C Statement.

    Previously I also co-chaired the W3C Social Web Working Group that produced several widely interoperably deployed Social Web Standards. Mastodon and other open source software projects built a social network on ActivityPub and other social web specs which now require maintenance from implementation experience. As such, I have participated in the Social Web Incubator Community Group and helped draft a new charter to restart the Social Web Working Group and maintain these widely adopted specifications.

    With several members stepping down, the AB is experiencing much higher than usual turnover in this election.

    I am running for re-election to both help with continuity, on the Vision project and other efforts, and work with new and continuing Advisory Board members to build a fresh, forward looking focus for the AB.

    I believe governance of W3C, and advising thereof, is most effectively done by those who have the experience of actively collaborating in working groups producing interoperable specifications, and especially those who directly create on the web using W3C standards. This direct connection to the actual work of the web is essential to prioritizing the purpose & scope of governance of that work.

    Beyond effective governance, the AB has played the more crucial role of a member-driven change agent for W3C. While the Board and Team focus on the operations of keeping the W3C legal entity running smoothly, the AB has been and should continue to be where Members go to both fix problems and drive forward-looking improvements in W3C to better fulfill our Vision and Mission.

    I have Mozilla's financial support to spend my time pursuing these goals, and ask for your support to build the broad consensus required to achieve them.

    I post on my personal site tantek.com. You may follow my posts there or from Mastodon: @tantek.com@tantek.com

    If you have any questions or want to chat about the W3C Advisory Board, Values, Vision, or anything else W3C related, please reach out by email: tantek at mozilla.com. Thank you for your consideration.

    Addendum: More Candidates Blogged Nomination Statements

    Several other candidates (all new candidates) have also blogged their nomination statements, on their personal websites, naturally. This is the first AB election I know of where more than one candidate blogged their nomination statement. Ordered earliest published first:

    And one more candidate blogged about why he is running:

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    Last Friday I published my second Cybersecurity Friday post with three more key steps for cybersecurity. In summary: 1. Different email address for each account, AKA email masking. Use or create a different email alias for each service you sign-up for. 2. Different password for each account. This is a well known security technique against credential stuffing attacks. 3. Use a password manager to autofill. Always using a password manager to autofill your login username (or email) and password can be a very effective method of reducing the chances of being phished. Full post with details: https://tantek.com/2025/122/b1/more-steps-indieweb-cybersecurity #CyberSecurity Friday #cyber #security Previously: https://tantek.com/2025/055/t1/three-steps-indieweb-cybersecurity

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    Additional suggested pre-read for workshop participants, given the primary topic of this meeting: * "C2PA Is Not Going To Fix Our Misinformation Problem" (https://lowentropy.net/posts/c2pa/) by Martin Thomson (@lowentropy.net @github.com/martinthomson) I have a conflict for most of the duration of this mini-workshop instance. The time of this second instance is also the same as the first, which is exceptionally unfriendly to participants in Asia and Oceania, such as the author of the above pre-read. If there is an intention to continue this mini-workshop series, I request rotating future event instances across times that are more friendly and accommodating across timezones in order to be more inclusive of global participants. Lastly, here is another suggested pre-read on a fallacy I noted in the prior mini workshop^1: * "Politician’s Syllogism" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism) Thank you for your attention to both of these suggested pre-reads. Stay skeptical, my friends. Tantek Çelik, Mozilla Advisory Committee Representative, Member of W3C Credible Web Community Group (https://credweb.org/) ^1 https://github.com/w3c/authentic-web-workshop/blob/main/minutes/2025-03-12AuthWeb.md

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    May the Fourth be with you! There’s a movie discussion podcast that I discovered via my pal Tom Coates (@plasticbag.org @tomcoates@me.dm @tomcoates) when he posted their episode on the movie Gattaca^1 where they had him on as a special guest. Originally started in 2020 as “Dune Pod” about all things related to the then upcoming Dune movie, as they covered more and more movies of a certain kind from mostly the 1980s and 1990s, they renamed themselves “Escape Hatch”. For their 250th episode which they coincidentally released yesterday or today depending on your timezone, they decided to cover the classic 1980 Star Wars sequel Empire Strikes Back. An intelligent, nerdy, well researched, and overall entertaining discussion of what may be one of the greatest movies of all time — certainly the best Star Wars film. Check it out: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-250-back-128092542 #DunePod #EscapeHatch #StarWars #EmpireStrikesBack #TheEmpireStrikesBack #MayTheFourthBeWithYou #MayTheFourth #MayThe4thBeWithYou #MayThe4th ^1 https://open.spotify.com/episode/6BUuNvkhqwdrZGIkKAYBya