RE: Welcome to the Merchant Business Group

Hello all

 

Thanks for responding to the Doodle polls. 

 

Scheduling was always going to be difficult given time zones, but it looks
like 21h00 on Monday October 26th is our best shot for next week - I
recognise that that is very late for those of us in a European time zone. 

 

I will put an agenda together with the chairs this week. Microsoft Teams
appears to be the most acceptable choice for conferencing so we will use it
and see. 

 

Meeting invitation going out shortly.

 

Speak to you soon

Nick

 

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Nick Telford-Reed

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From: Nick Telford-Reed <nicktr@w3.org> 
Sent: 09 October 2020 09:11
To: 'public-merchantbg@w3.org' <public-merchantbg@w3.org>
Subject: Welcome to the Merchant Business Group

 

Dear Merchant Business Group members,

 

Welcome to the group and thanks for signing up. We're excited to be
launching.

We'd like to schedule our first meeting for later this month. There's a
Doodle Poll (https://doodle.com/poll/q2vwis9yny7waysc) to look at best times
for w/c 26th October and another Poll
(https://doodle.com/poll/s37pytvpm3xz82ng) looking at remote meeting tools. 

 

We have members from around the world spanning both coasts of the US, Europe
and Australia so scheduling is going to be hard - please let us know what
works for you. The Poll is in Universal Time Coordinate (UTC) - so please be
careful in mapping to your own timezone. 

 

Here are some things that we would like to cover in the first meeting

 

[Draft agenda for first meeting]

 

*	Introductions
*	Priorities for the group
*	Review the charter
*	Ways of working
*	Suggested Topics for us to discuss

 

We'd welcome suggestions or topics you'd like us to add. 

 

As a reminder, here is our Draft Charter

https://w3c.github.io/merchantbg//MerchantBGcharter.html
<https://w3c.github.io/merchantbg/MerchantBGcharter.html> 

 

Here's our Group page

https://www.w3.org/community/merchantbg/

 

Here's our new empty Github repository

https://github.com/w3c/merchantbg

 

Scheduling the meeting:

https://doodle.com/poll/q2vwis9yny7waysc

 

Remote meeting technology

https://doodle.com/poll/s37pytvpm3xz82ng

 

Thanks

Nick  (on behalf of the chairs)

 

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Nick Telford-Reed

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