Re: Keynote Speaker(s)?

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Erik Anderson (BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEX) <
eanderson20@bloomberg.net> wrote:

> Here is a poor example from a hyperledger meeting at the DTCC.
>
>
> https://github.com/hyperledger/hyperledger/wiki/Identity-WG---Potential-Substreams
>

I facilitated this list — not a bad capture for only about 40 minutes of
discussion ;-)

If we did something similar for a larger group of people it would take
about an hour and a half. If when then broke people out into breakout
groups to further flesh out and detail the categories, that would take
another hour or so. Then we could report out to everyone the results so
that some priorities and decisions could be made. All-in-all slightly more
than half a day of facilitated discussion. Add in some time for some
intros, and time for a few topics some time for debate (like the contention
I’ve heard that W3C should only to blockchain standards if they directly
affect the browser), we have a full day scheduled right there. If the group
was small (30 people or so) I could facilitate, but I’m limited and do not
consider myself a professional facilitator. Larger groups need a
professional facilitator to get the level of results that I’d like to see.
Fortunately, I know many great facilitators.

I have been in the Bitcoin & Blockchain space as long as anyone else and I
> have lots of use cases, problems, features, capabilities, and such.
>

It is these type of people that we want to have at this initial event — not
lurkers. We don’t want people to show up “Help me understand Blockchain
tech” — if they don’t have something to offer, they can come to future
ones. As I understand the purpose of this event is to see if it makes sense
to create some Blockchain related standards in the W3C, not inform W3C
members about how Blockchain works.


> We should organizing ideas and content about 1-3 above. These should be
> product neutral implementations. We are not getting together to sell our
> product to each other. We need to find interoperability points so everyone
> can have a chance for success.
>

Agreed!

— Christopher Allen