Re: W3C Web Payments Activity Update & tentative first meeting

Dear Stephane,

Thank you for this email update and splendid news w.r.t. progress.

Regards,

p.


On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Stephane Boyera <boyera@w3.org> wrote:

> Dear All,
> I would like to give you an update on the W3C Web Payments activity.
> We are launching tomorrow the review of the charter by the W3C membership..
> therefore, if you are a member and not the official representative of your
> organization at W3C, I recommend you talk to your representative so that he
> reviews with your help the charter.
> The review will take four weeks, and if everything works well, we are
> hoping to announce the group october 16. This is obviously subject to
> review comments and objections by W3C membership.
>
> Then in order to speed the process, we are also tentatively planning the
> first meeting of the group during the W3C annual technical plenary.
> If the group is approved and announced on October 16, then we are planning
> to host the first meeting 27/28 October in Santa-Clara, California. see
> http://www.w3.org/2014/11/TPAC/
> Note that this meeting will be open to W3C members only and appointed
> Invited Experts. I've a couple of applications for Invited experts that I
> hope to be able to manage by that time.
> Here again, note that this is a tentative schedule that may be changed if
> the W3C member review requires further work.
>
> If you have any question, don't hesitate to use these mailing-lists or
> contact me personnally.
>
> Best
> STephane
>
> Le 24/07/2014 10:45, Stephane Boyera a écrit :
>
>> Dear All,
>> I would like to give you a complete update on W3C Web Payments activity.
>> The last months since the workshop have been intensive and I want to
>> thank again all those who participated in the discussions and
>> contributed to the development of the W3C Web Payment Steering Group
>> charter (AKA Web Payments IG).
>> I believe that the charter at [1] has stabilized and covers most of the
>> points that are in the scope of this activities.
>> Apart for driving the development of the charter, We (my W3C colleagues
>> and me) have conducted a series of one2one discussions with various
>> organizations, and we believe that we have now the critical mass to
>> launch the activity.
>> We will now start the formal W3C process.
>> In few words, the process consists of a few steps:
>> *after W3C management approval, the charter will be send to W3C members
>> representatives for review and comment
>> *Based on this review, the W3C director will decide (or not) to launch
>> the new group
>> *When the group is launched, W3C members appoints some of their staff to
>> the group and the work begin
>>
>> The commitments for participants in the group is light:
>> the group works by email, usually meets once a week for one hour
>> teleconference, and then is likely to meet face-2-face around 3 times a
>> year. While not mandatory, participation in these f2f, particularly in
>> the first one, is really important. In most cases, we will be able to
>> organize remote participation solutions through teleconferences.
>>
>> If the group is launched as scheduled, it is very likely that the first
>> face-2-face will take place during the annual W3C Technical Plenary.
>> This year it is taking place in Santa-Clara, California, 27 to 31
>> October. The Web Payments group is scheduled 27 and 28. See details at
>> http://www.w3.org/2014/11/TPAC/
>> Note that the group is not listed yet because it is not existing.
>>
>> In terms of required actions, here is what you have to do:
>> *If your organization is a W3C member (see the list at
>> http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List ): if you are the official W3C
>> representative, then you just have to wait and receive son a call for
>> review. You will have then to send your review and that's it. If you are
>> not the official W3C representative of your company, you should get in
>> touch with your representative (don't hesitate to ask me his/her
>> details) and coordinate the review together.
>>
>> *If your organization is not a W3C member, note that the participation
>> in the group requires W3C membership. If you are interested to learn
>> more on the benefit and process for becoming a member, please get in
>> touch with me. In some exceptional cases, we may appoint individuals as
>> invited experts (see http://www.w3.org/2004/08/invexp). I'm managing
>> these requests on a case-by-case.
>>
>> Please let me know if the process and next steps are clear or if you
>> have any questions. Feel free to comment publicly or contact me
>> privately. Finally, feel free to share this email with anybody that may
>> be interested in this work.
>> [1]http://www.w3.org/2014/04/payments/webpayments_charter.html
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Stephane
>>
>
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