W3C seeks community input for Board of Directors appointments

The Board of Directors has open seats that can be appointed by the Board of Directors itself for two-year terms. The Development Committee has been considering what skill areas the current Board needs to level up. We are seeking the community’s help in order to identify candidates who might fill those gaps.

Based on self-assessment of the current Board Directors, we believe the Board would significantly benefit from increased financial skills, legal acumen, and fundraising experience. We have additionally identified that connections to other standards-defining organizations would be beneficial, as well as improving our geographic balance – in particular, our current Board Directors under-represent North America in terms of geographic distribution of our members.

As a reminder, the Board maintains documents on the role of the Board as well as the expected skills and expectations for Directors.

We are looking for suggestions of potential Board Director candidates who might improve our collective skills. We would particularly encourage suggestions of people with experience on non-profit boards, especially of national or international organizations.

We want to ensure we have a broad candidate pool. If you have any, we would encourage you to send suggestions of candidates to board-appointee-suggestion@w3.org. This list reaches the W3C Board of Directors Development Committee and W3C Officers. You may self-nominate or suggest other people. Please, be as specific but also as brief as you can.

Please note this is not an election. As part of the appointments the Board will discuss, and select candidates to explore further with (if any) based on how well they would round out our collective skills to improve the Board.