We need to confirm whether or not the movers can break down the room the next day, rather than in the evening. If there is time to break down the room in the morning before the next event starts, then this could save us hundreds of dollars, because the movers charge overtime in the evening.

There's been considerable interest in the blockchain workshop, and we may need more than 60 slots for attendees. Ideally, we would have room for 100 attendees seated at round tables, with 5–6 chairs per table (so nobody has to sit facing away from the stage). That's 17-20 tables.

We need to confirm that:

1. the venue has room for 17-20 round tables and a stage
2. we have enough tables and chairs (17-20 round tables, 100+ chairs) without having to rent more.

There is considerable overlap between the content in:

1. Use Cases and
2. Application Areas

It would be advisable to choose one method and location for accumulating this list. Overall, the term "use case" seems the better fit. Please leave a comment below in the next day or two if you object to combining this content in the Use Cases file and
deleting the content in Application Areas.

I know workshop is onetime event.
current github repo "blockchain" is used for blockchainCG and blockchainWorkshop both.
do we need to divide activities into different branches?

The current definition of blockchain on the Wiki would define a blockchain as merely a message passing system, with no distinction from legacy distributed ledgers such as ACH and SWIFT.

Wasn't the innovation of a blockchain that of a 'permissionless' system, secured by Proof of Work? Or have we been using blockchains since the 80's? (And if so - why is this project relevant or interesting?)

Some people have asked for a demo area, outside the workshop room. I know we reserved the lobby area, but I also know there's another meeting going on adjacent to that, and we need to avoid disturbing them. Is there somewhere to the side that would be suitable?

For each demo presenter, we would need:

• a table (about 6ft x 3ft)
• a monitor
• electricity

current statement is as following

"The mission of the the Blockchain Community Group is to generate message format standards of Blockchain based on ISO20022 and to generate guidelines for usage of storage including torrent, public blockchain, private blockchain, side chain and CDN. This group will study and evaluate new technologies related to blockchain, and use cases such as interbank communications."

and the suggestion is as following

The mission of the Blockchain Community Group is to unleash blockchain to
its full potential by working in the areas, but not limited, to the
following:

• To develop the standard protocols of blockchain to interconnect other networks and services across the industries used for financial transactions, mobile operations, autonomous devices, and etc.
• To develop the guidelines for the use of storage technology including torrent, different chain species, CDN, and etc.
• To study and possibly to develop standard procedures to evaluate the technological variants of blockchain.
• To explore use cases to help dreamers, visionaries and entrepreneurs to expand the technology to unexploited realms and territories.
• To foster the collaborations and communication of world blockchain engineering and business community.

On the call there were a few areas of interest expressed by the group that are reflected on the workshop site:

Core technical components of blockchains and their overlap with the Web, such as:

• Blockchain APIs, such as JavaScript or REST APIs
• Blockchain primitives such as transaction initiation, key signing, and wallet management
• Ledger interchange formats and protocols
• Smart contracts and conditional execution contexts

Application areas, such as:

• Identity systems, including privacy, security, and confidentiality factors
• Rights expression and licensing
• Decentralized processing, computing, and storage infrastructure
• Voting systems

I propose that we pick a group the attendees (with an interest specific focus areas above) to give 5 minute, introductory lightning talks that introduce their focus area and talk about how it can be a useful for developers and the Web at large. I would tell them to stay away from proscribing solutions, and instead focus on being informational.

Use cases

• Access to bitcoin wallet securely in the browser for payments
• verifying if an emergency responder is currently authorized to
  be onsite
• Checking to see if an IBAN number has been placed on a government
  watchlist
• Seeing if a digital coupon has already been redeemed (coupon fraud)
• Seeing if a car insurance claim has already been processed (fraud)
• Seeing if someone has the credentials (training/education) that they
  say they do
• Checking to see if a doctor has their license (or has been debarred)
• Ensuring that a refugee that is onboarded at one camp can recover their
  refugee status determination paperwork.
• verify a block is genuine inside a blockchain from a web
  application
• for wallets, we want some way to store and opporate on keys in a
  secure way in the client. I believe web cryto is working on this. Will the web
  crypto group's APIs suffice for wallets?
• Standardized REST API for blockchain access using normal JSON
• rights management, trust management on WEB
• standardized data model for expressing primitives off of
  blockchain (returned when using a REST API)
• Things communicating within IoT
• WOT related BC components
• Preventing fraud in the insurance industry (by registering insurance claims on
  a blockchain / shared database)
• Blockchain use by the Music industry:
  https://medium.com/cuepoint/how-the-blockchain-can-change-the-music-industry-part-2-c1fa3bdfa848#.m462v6ppa
• Tracking data that's shared on the Web, and measure who's accessing it
• for natural disasters/emergency skill systems: running a ledger with no
  "servers"- distributed networking. Network discovery/mngment from the browser,
  or maybe over BLE?
• hyper system centralized and de-centralized DB(permissioned)
• anonymised deterministic passport real-time status validation on travel
• calculating Weighted Centrality

Hi Guys,

Way back in bitcoin foundation i did some work on standardization but some how formal approaches didnt reach apropitate direction. Here is the link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_o2cMOexKPjTHM2QWhITFM0djA/view?usp=sharing

would it be of help and would be happy to contrib towards the project.

Regards

Harsh Patel