First day of WPWG Code-a-Thon

Hi Web Payments Working Group,

About 25 people participated in the first session of the WPWG code-a-thon. We met on WebEx to identify topics
of interest (see minutes [1]). The identified topics were:

* “Authentic”: a demo to offer a cascade of authentication options depending on the user’s environment.
* “Minimal UI”: the Chrome team has been experimenting with a variation on a payment app experience where the payment app does not
                        open a window but the browser does on its behalf. In particular, there was interest in using this feature for streamlined 
                        authentication, that is: authenticate-to-pay.
* “Mobile Money”: This project involves connecting GSMA APIs related to mobile money to the Payment Request ecosystem.
* “Fastercheckout” and “QR Code”: Entersekt proposed two projects related to streamlined checkout and authentication. 
* “Card on file”: At TPAC 2019 Airbnb had suggested it would be good to integrate card-on-file and card-stored-in-payment-apps user experiences
                         into a single user experience.

The second phase of the code-a-thon is going on now: people have broken out into different projects, each with its own IRC channel. (The IRC channels
are available from our main irc channel, #wpwg-code.)

We will reconvene on 27 May to check in on progress. For more information, see:
https://github.com/w3c/webpayments/wiki/Code-A-Thon-2020

Thanks to all the participants!

Ian

[1] https://www.w3.org/2020/05/26-wpwg-code-minutes.html

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Received on Tuesday, 26 May 2020 21:00:29 UTC