Re: Hello world!

Hi.

that is great schedule.

I also hope to be help.

best regards
mountie


On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Marta Piekarska <marta@blockstream.io>
wrote:

> Hi Everyone!!
> I wanted to properly introduce myself. My name is Marta Piekarska, I’m the
> Security Architect at Blockstream. I thought, that since I am getting
> involved in all of the Blockchain work, and I would love to help more with
> organizing the community group it would be good for me to give you some
> background information. So here is my standard spiel:
>
> I am a Bachelor of Electrical and Computer Engineering from Warsaw
> University of Technology and a double Master from Computer Science and
> Informatics at Technical University of Berlin and Warsaw University of
> Technology. I did my undergrad Thesis on Voice Encryption on Android
> Platform and my grad work on GPU-aided Payload Delivery on Linux Kernel. I
> am currently finishing my PhD dissertation on User-Informed Design of
> Privacy Tools, while working for one of the hottest Silicon Valley
> startups, Blockstream, as their Security Architect. Previously, I have been
> working at Deutsche Telekom as the Lead Architect on the Future of Mobile
> Privacy, a collaboration with Mozilla and Deutsche Telekom improving
> Firefox OS. Of course, I also teach and work at the Unitiverity (Technical
> University of Berlin). My technical interests are covered by what I do -
> user-informed privacy and security, applications of Bitcoin technology
> beyond cryptocurrency, and lock picking. Outside of work I climbing, read
> latin-american novels and watch Emir Kusturica’s movies. I also cook. A
> lot:)
>
> I was thinking what would be a good plan for our group and here is what I
> came up with:
>
> After providing the Report and presenting it to the Board of the W3C, in
> August, we should plan to organize a meeting during the TPAC in Lisbon. It
> will take place on Tuesday 20th of September at 10:30–12:30, or thats the
> slot currently allocated in the agenda.
> It makes sense for us to continue to work closely together with the
> Blockchain Digital Assets Community Group, and participate in the
> Interledger Payments Community Group meeting at TPAC on Thursday, 23rd of
> September. Moreover we should collaborate with the Verifiable Claims
> Working Group that is in the process of being currently formed.
>
> I think  that Blockchain is a technology that will be appearing in many
> domains and the two biggest tasks I see for our team is to:
> 1) monitor the work of other groups (Web Payment, Internet of Things etc)
> to make sure we are aware of what is happening in their field.
> 2) propose use cases beyond what is happening in the other working groups
> and make sure we can identify the applications of Blockchain that do and do
> not make sense. It was clear from the various discussions during the
> workshop that there is a consensus among the participants that not every
> application of Blockchain technology makes sense. But we have not yet
> reached a point where we could identify a common set of the “unreasonable”
> applications.
>
> Until TPAC meeting I would work with everyone to prepare agenda for the
> meeting and see how can we best use the time we have together in Lisbon.
>
> Next, after September meeting we could continue with regular calls, and
> plan to convert into a Blockchain Working Group that can have more
> formalized character and bigger impact. With that we could also continue to
> plan our second workshop on the West Coast, this time, where we would be
> working on more technical aspects and specifications that can contribute to
> W3C standardization.
>
> Finally, by the end of the year I would hope we will have a Blockchain
> Working Group and our first RFC.
>
> How does that sound to everyone?
>
> I would be happy to answer any questions and discuss more. Below you have
> all of my contact details, feel free to hit me up about anything!
>
> Have a great day
> m
>
>
> —
> Security Architect @ Blockstream
>
> mp@blockstream.com
>
> +491703311307 (Germany)
> +14159608938 (U.S.)
> Signal, Wickr (martap)
>
>


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