Re: Marta Piekarska as Blockchain CG Co-Chair

Everyone,
thank you for your kind words and support! I am excited for this new role and looking forward to working with all of you!
As it will be my first time Chairing any organization, I welcome any suggestions and help!

Have a great day
m
—
Security Architect @ Blockstream

mp@blockstream.com

+491703311307 (Germany)
+14159608938 (U.S.)
Signal, Wickr (martap)

> On Aug 16, 2016, at 9:42 AM, Vicki Lemieux <vlemieux@mail.ubc.ca> wrote:
> 
> 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 (Germany) +14159608938 (U.S.) Signal, Wickr (martap)
>>> 
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