Re: Marta Piekarska as Blockchain CG Co-Chair

Seeing only positive responses, I've appointed Marta as co-chair.

Nick, Marta, we should arrange to have a chairs call next week, if 
possible, so we can sort out plans and duties.

Thanks!
Doug

On 8/16/16 1:41 PM, Marta Piekarska wrote:
> 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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