Re: Website changes - new logo, W3C branding issue

Dear Manu, All

Tks. for the message

I note the concern and sensitivity and this morning have modified the title
of my talk at the Asia PKI Forum Symposium on Jan 15

Development of the W3C Web Payment Technologies: An Asian Opportunity

If there's trouble with that then please let me know -- or suggest an
alternative. I'm not sure what has gone to press, but if that creates
problems then my apologies in advance.

On a side note, bitcoin centric, but some other HK developments as far as
public awareness of the trend in digital payments from last week are:-
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1397788/hong-kong-get-worlds-second-bitcoin-atm-say-makers

http://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/1396917/virtual-currency-entrepreneurs-fight-future-bitcoin-hong
 Happy New Year everyone

p.



On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 1:10 AM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> There have been two quick changes to the website this morning.
>
> The first was a result of being contacted by the W3C communications team
> regarding the use of the word 'standard' on the web-payments.org
> website. Since this group is currently not a Working Group, they were
> uneasy with the use of the word because it seemed to imply backing by
> W3C membership, which we don't have yet (but may have after the
> workshop(s) this year).
>
> To be clear, nothing has changed with what we're working on here... just
> the messaging to the public at large. The expectation is that the
> technologies we work on here will be standards eventually, but calling
> them that before there is a WG assigned is premature as far as W3C is
> concerned. The discussion was friendly, and we're going to continue
> talking about the language and messaging around the work we're doing
> here. The word 'standards' has been replaced with 'technologies' for the
> time being, until something better is chosen. So if anyone has a better
> idea about what else we could use in its place, please speak up.
>
> The second change is that we have a new logo for the group, which you'll
> see at the top-left of the website here:
>
> https://web-payments.org/
>
> The SVG of the logo can be found here:
>
> https://web-payments.org/images/logo.svg
>
> Feel free to submit different logos if you don't like it. We didn't have
> one, so I just put one together really quickly.
>
> -- manu
>
> --
> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
> blog: The Worlds First Web Payments Workshop
> http://www.w3.org/2013/10/payments/
>
>