Re: Marta Piekarska as Blockchain CG Co-Chair

Doug and Marta,

I am looking forward to speaking with both of you. I will try to make 11PM
(KST; 7AM PST; 10AM EST, I think^^) Monday and Tuesday available for the
meeting next week.

Nick.


On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 9:07 PM, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote:

> 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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