Advice on dates for web payments workshop?

We are now working on plans for holding a W3C web payments workshop 
early next year and want to avoid clashing with other related events.

We are currently looking into hosting the workshop in Paris and are 
trying to pin down the dates. One suggestion is 12-13 Feb 2014. Another 
is the Monday and Tuesday following the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in 
Barcelona, i.e. 2-3 Mar 2014, the theory being that some people key to 
the workshop will be at MWC, and if coming from outside of Europe may 
well prefer to attend the workshop as part of a single trip. The week 
before MWC is unavailable due to other conflicting meetings.

I am aware of only two events relating to payments in Feb 2014:

   Mobile money and payments, Mexico City 13-14 Feb 2014
   Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, 24-27 Feb 2014

The focus for the workshop will be standards for enabling a level 
playing field for payment solution providers large and small, existing 
and new, since this is likely to be essential to getting broad support 
for any resulting standards. We won't be seeking to standardize 
particular payment solutions.

p.s. we were looking at October 2013 in New York, but after further 
consideration this was felt to be too risky due to the impact of the 
Summer vacation period on timely outreach and decision making.

Looking forward to any advice you can offer.

Many thanks,
-- 
Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett

Received on Tuesday, 30 July 2013 10:31:07 UTC