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[template] Make Invited Expert status more inviting.
Say that Chairs should look out for potential Invited Experts, and point to how aspiring Invited Experts can apply.
This is in response to https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/113158694744132049 worrying that relying on the Invited Expert program will disenfranchise useful contributors and is meant as input to https://github.com/w3c/cg-council/issues/18. It's possible that this paragraph should also encourage non-Members to join as Members, but I want to make sure that's worded in a way that it doesn't discourage any self-employed people from asking to be IEs.
I wouldn't necessarily have something against becoming a W3C member, however, the current fee structure does not make this possible as a self-employed software engineer, where it is currently geared towards only allowing corporate participation, when so much of the Fediverse is built by self-employed people or small startups working towards a better web.