Re: Telecon time (Was: Agenda: Verifiable Claims Working Group (VCWG) Teleconference - 23 May 2017)

Thanks for your proposals! The other group I am chairing (which has members from the US West Coast and Australia, among others) has settled for 20:00 UTC, which is (in the Northern Hemisphere’s summer) 10pm for Central Europe, a comfortable 4pm for the US East Coast, 1pm for the US West Coast and an acceptable 6am for Australia. We do make small changes throughout the year when the Summer/Winter times do change differently in the Northern/Southern Hemisphere.
Running a separate meeting once a month may not attract a critical mass of people. Running the meeting in alternating EMEA and APAC friendly timeslots is the best solution, but a huge burden on the chairs, especially if they are from within the same time zone.

I fully understand that you have chosen the current time based on the availability of the people who made contributions in the CG. I am just concerned that you may miss out on some input from experts that may only have been made aware of this work since it became a WG. I, for example, only started “recruiting” in this area in the last couple of months. From an Australian perspective, we can, of course, based on its size, expect only a very limited interest in the group. I am talking to one big company that has identity verification at its core, but the chances of conversion (i.e. W3C full membership) is maybe 30%. To answer your question, I wouldn’t expect more than 1-3 people joining from Australia. However, I suspect there could be very strong interest from Asia, i.e. China and Japan. Chinese members, in particular, seem to prefer joining WGs compared to CGs. Companies like Tencent, running WeChat, are miles ahead of the Western competition when it comes to identity sharing/verification (via bumping phones). If you haven’t done yet, it would be worth reaching out to the Chinese host to drum up interest in China.

Cheers,
Armin

On 25/5/17, 4:48 am, "Adam Migus" <adam@migusgroup.com> wrote:

    FYI, I'm involved in another group that has a very geographically diverse set of participants and that group ended up alternating between "EMEA Friendly" and "APAC Friendly" time slots.
    
    I think that improves on Manu's suggestion by putting APAC participants on equal footing with EMEA participants. It does, however, burden the chairs with managing the meetings across two timeslots and two mostly but not completely overlapping groups.
    
    Adam Migus | @amigus
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Manu Sporny [mailto:msporny@digitalbazaar.com] 
    Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2017 9:34 AM
    To: public-vc-wg@w3.org
    Subject: Re: Telecon time (Was: Agenda: Verifiable Claims Working Group (VCWG) Teleconference - 23 May 2017)
    
    On 05/24/2017 06:57 AM, Daniel Burnett wrote:
    > The chairs also welcome any opinions and comments from other members  
    > of the group.  Please jump in.
    
    Could we start by holding one optional call a month at 10pm ET to provide a summary of what the group has been doing over the past month or so for the APAC region?
    
    This would mean:
    
    1. The official VCWG meeting times stay at the current weekly time slot.
    2. We have one additional call every month at 10pm ET that is optional
       to try to see how much participation we can gather from the APAC
       region. We do this for six months to see how much participation
       we can muster, and if it doesn't work out, we end the optional call.
    
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