Re: Marta Piekarska as Blockchain CG Co-Chair

Marta, Many thanks for “stepping up”.  It is great to have such enthusiastic
and excellent leadership in all the co-chairs!

Best wishes,
Victoria Lemieux
Associate Professor, Archival Science
The University of British Columbia

From:  <lov.in.christ@gmail.com> on behalf of "Dr. Nick Lee"
<nicklee@konkuk.ac.kr>
Date:  Tuesday, August 16, 2016 at 1:43 AM
To:  Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
Cc:  Marta Piekarska <marta@blockstream.io>, <public-blockchain@w3.org>
Subject:  Re: Marta Piekarska as Blockchain CG Co-Chair
Resent-From:  <public-blockchain@w3.org>
Resent-Date:  Tue, 16 Aug 2016 08:43:34 +0000

​As I stated before, I welcome Marta for the Chair.

Youngwhan "Nick" Lee


On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 12:35 AM, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote:
> Hi, folks–
> 
> Based on Marta's background, willingness and ability to help, concrete plans,
> company support, and location in Europe, I think it makes a lot of sense to
> appoint her as a co-chair of the Blockchain Community Group.
> 
> That would give us 3 co-chairs, well distributed geographically and
> culturally:
> * Youngwhan "Nick" Lee in Asia
> * Marta Piekarska in Europe
> * Doug Schepers in North America
> 
> I've already floated this suggestion with Nick, and with others during the
> weekly Blockchain CG teleconferences, and everyone thought it was a good idea.
> If anyone has objections to this, please let the chairs know by the end of
> this week; if we don't hear any objections, we'll appoint her as co-chair..
> 
> Thanks!
> Doug
> 
> On 8/5/16 6:51 PM, Marta Piekarska 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 <tel:%2B491703311307>  (Germany) +14159608938
>> <tel:%2B14159608938>  (U.S.) Signal, Wickr (martap)
>> 
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