OpenJS Ranking of W3C TAG candidates?

[michaelchampion]

The W3C Technical Architecture Group is holding an election for 4 of its 8 elected members. There are 7 candidates. See nomination statements at https://www.w3.org/2024/10/tag-nominations. Our nominee Lea Verou has served on the TAG for 4 years but decided not to run this year. (Neither did the other elected incumbents). The election is held by a Single Transferrable Vote mechanism that allows each member organization to rank the candidates, then an (absurdly complicated 😉 https://blog.opavote.com/2017/04/meek-stv-explained.html ) algorithm selects the 4 winners.

Please suggest, using whatever level of confidentiality you think appropriate, how we should rank the candidates. As the representative of OpenJS casting the actual ballot, I'll do my best to reflect the consensus of those making suggestions. I personally know only a couple of the candidates, but all seem qualified and I have no strong feelings about how to rank them. Hadley Beeman is the only current TAG member running -- she was appointed by the Director for many years but the Process changed and forced her to run for election.

[ljharb]

Continuity is critical - we should rank the sole incumbent highest imo, as it would be quite undesirable to have only new members on the TAG.

[michaelchampion]

There are 4 incumbents whose terms last another year, plus there are two appointed members whose terms last another year, so there will be some continuity no matter how this election goes.

[ctcpip]

While I agree with Jordan, it's important to note the TAG has staggered elections/terms. So even with no incumbents in this election, there would still be continuity via the folks whose terms are not up. e.g. Daniel Appelquist, etc.