[MINUTES] VCs for Education 2025-05-05

kte-hamg-bpj (2025-05-05) Meeting Summary

*Attendees:* Ildiko Mazar, Stuart Freeman, Ted Thibodeau Jr.

*Topics Covered:*

   - *Meeting Attendance and Scheduling Challenges:* Low attendance was
   noted, attributed to potential unknown events and bureaucratic delays in
   scheduling participants, particularly in Europe. Strategies for improving
   attendance were discussed.
   - *Agenda Items and Brainstorming:* The group briefly brainstormed
   potential agenda items for future meetings, focusing on topics related to
   digital credentials and related technologies. No significant new items were
   identified.
   - *Upcoming Events:* Several significant upcoming events were mentioned:
      - The Badge Summit and ASU's TLN unconference in Boulder, Colorado
      (July).
      - The DCC Summit in Delft, Netherlands (June 26th).
      - An event on wallets and digital credentials in Geneva (a few days
      after the Delft summit). These events were noted as potential sources of
      future discussion points.

*Key Points:*

   - Difficulty scheduling participants across geographical locations and
   time zones was a significant challenge.
   - The group agreed to reconvene next week with a more concrete agenda.
   - Several major upcoming conferences related to digital credentials and
   badges were highlighted as opportunities for collaboration and follow-up
   discussion.

Text:
https://meet.w3c-ccg.org/archives/w3c-ccg-vcs-for-education-2025-05-05.md

Video:
https://meet.w3c-ccg.org/archives/w3c-ccg-vcs-for-education-2025-05-05.mp4
*kte-hamg-bpj (2025-05-05 11:00 GMT-4) - Transcript* *Attendees*

Ildiko Mazar, Stuart Freeman, Ted Thibodeau Jr
*Transcript*

Ildiko Mazar: Good day.

Ted Thibodeau Jr: Good day.

Ildiko Mazar: Ing Very rainy, dark evening. How are you?

Ted Thibodeau Jr: Keeping on. How are you?

Ildiko Mazar: I'm I'm going to take this opportunity that we are only two
in the call to thank you again for your feedback. It's very useful.

Ildiko Mazar: Of course,…

Ted Thibodeau Jr: I'm glad it's helpful.

Ildiko Mazar: more eyes the marrier. And also because I don't know which
room we are ultimately…

Ted Thibodeau Jr: Yeah.

Ildiko Mazar: because this is the one where we should be, but it's only the
two of us. I'm slightly worried that I should check the jity as check on
the others and I'll keep this window open as well. I'll just mute myself.

Ildiko Mazar: So far, at least there's nobody in I sent a quick message to
the chairs seeing whether they will join us or not.

Ildiko Mazar: Is there any event that you might be aware of at your side of
the pond that might keep people occupied or…

Ildiko Mazar: away from their desks?

Ted Thibodeau Jr: I don't know of any,…

Ted Thibodeau Jr: but I did see a couple of event cancellations come across
in the last few hours. So maybe there's something that we don't know about.

Ildiko Mazar: Okay. All it's strange that I haven't been here for, but
that's fine. I suggest well up to you but I'm quite happy to wait a few
more minutes and see if anybody joins but if you don't mind using the time
and of course you can decline. I can also pick your brain about whether
there's anything that you think we should be putting on the agenda that may
not be on our radar.
00:05:00

Ildiko Mazar: You're definitely a regular, so you probably know more about
this stuff than I do, especially on your side.

Ted Thibodeau Jr: Nothing leaps to mind.

Ted Thibodeau Jr: My contributions or…

Ted Thibodeau Jr: my involvement with the education side is fairly limited
in the great wide world. my contributions here are mostly on the sort of
technical stuff that I happen to be involved with because as you say I've
been here for a while

Ildiko Mazar: Okay. …

Ildiko Mazar: we do have a list. It's just seems to be going very slowly
especially the people I know here in Europe. the bureaucracy is just
impenetrable. so it takes weeks and months sometimes to get somebody on the
call.

Ildiko Mazar: I have one in the pipeline, but then we will just I guess
talk with Dimmitri and Timona and bring something for next Monday unless
there's something next Monday that I'm not aware of that will keep people
busy.

Stuart Freeman: Yeah. All

Ildiko Mazar: We're Amazing. Another regular. Hello. It's very small and
cozy today. there was no cancellation but we don't have a topic lined up. I
just thought that I would definitely jump in so you don't feel abandoned
and see how everybody's doing who happens to join.

Ildiko Mazar: And then su Stuart I might ask the same question from you
that I already asked from Ted. is there anything happening in the US that I
may not be aware of that keeps people away or is there something that may
be coming up that would be interesting to talk about in the coming weeks or…

Ildiko Mazar: months? yeah,…

Stuart Freeman: I'm not aware of any holidays or…

Stuart Freeman: anything today that would be keeping people out. other than
Cinco de Mayo, which is kind of probably not an official holiday.

Ildiko Mazar: that's why these are important.

Stuart Freeman: It's more of a sort of party holiday. upcoming things.

Stuart Freeman: I know I'm signed up to go to the, badge summit in Colorado.

Ildiko Mazar: Mhm. That's not far.

Stuart Freeman: I'm blanking on what the dates for that are. I think it's
June of July 21st through 23rd in Boulder.

Ildiko Mazar: July. Okay.

Stuart Freeman: So it's going to be there's a badge summit and…

Stuart Freeman: ASU's TLN unconference is going to be the same location. So
yes it's on the Monday of Badge Summit.

Ildiko Mazar: about the same time too.

Ildiko Mazar: July getting multiple words with the same stone.

Stuart Freeman: that they're sort of whatever you would call that
conferencing right yeah sort of everyone who's involved in this thing is
traveling for this as well so let's all just meet there so yeah I guess the
TLN on conference is a conference event for the badge summit that's the way
it's being framed

Ildiko Mazar: Okay. that's a big one. I guess we will have to announce that
the report about that afterwards. here on our side. I know that the digital
credentials consortium are coming to Europe. there will be the dcc summit
in June 26 if I'm not mistaken in Delft in the Netherlands and just a
couple of days later there will be another event that's more broad about
the wallets and digital credentials in Geneva.

Ildiko Mazar: So that would be interesting here. And there we go.
gentlemen, I don't want to steal your time. I'm sure that you will have
other important fun things to do. if nobody's still here at time 10 past
the hour, then we can probably close. And apologies for taking any of your
times in vain. but we will return next week with something. And think
you're both just starting your day. So I wish you a very nice and
productive day and look forward to seeing you next time.
00:10:00

Ted Thibodeau Jr: No worries. See you next time.

Stuart Freeman: Yes, I can see.

Stuart Freeman: And didn't mean to downplay the importance of Cinco de Mayo
for Mexicans,…

Ted Thibodeau Jr: It doesn't bother me.

Stuart Freeman: but for the US it's not.

Ted Thibodeau Jr: It's more a question of other people…

Ildiko Mazar: Bye-bye.

Ted Thibodeau Jr: who get bothered.

Stuart Freeman: But yeah,…

Stuart Freeman: for the US it's mostly not people actually celebrating the
actual events,…

Ted Thibodeau Jr: Definitely. …

Ted Thibodeau Jr: all right. You

Stuart Freeman: All right. Have a get on.
Meeting ended after 00:11:02 👋

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