STATUS: This is a draft of an email to let interested stakeholders know about the Digital Offers CG and ask them to join. Questions? Ian Jacobs , as part of the Web Payments Interest Group task force on Digital Offers. Note: * Adjust the text accordingly if you plan to send this out before the launch of the CG. * In particular, at the launch of the CG, we will move the discussion points and charter into the CG's web space. $Id: 04-offers-cg.txt,v 1.7 2016/10/10 16:24:21 ijacobs Exp $ ======= Subject: Invitation to Join the Digital Offers Community Group at W3C Body: On 10 October, participants in W3C's Web Payments Interest Group launched the new Digital Offers Community Group: http://www.w3.org/community/digitaloffers/ The mission of the Digital Offers Community Group is to improve E-Commerce on the Web by making it easier and more secure for all actors in the ecosystem to manage, distribute, use, and settle digital offers, including coupons, vouchers, rewards, and loyalty programs. I invite you to join the group (at no cost): http://www.w3.org/community/digitaloffers/join If you do not already have a W3C account, you will need one to join: https://www.w3.org/accounts/request Linda Toth (Connexus) and Jörg Heuer (Deutsche Telekom) will co-Chair the Community Group. If you have any questions, please contact Ian Jacobs . ============= FIRST MEETING The group will hold its first teleconference on 4 November at 11am ET; call details will be shared closer to the meeting. To help start discussions, the Digital Offers Task Force of the Web Payments Interest Group has prepared materials that we recommend you review before the meeting: * Draft Community Group Charter: https://www.w3.org/community/digitaloffers/digital-offers-community-group-charter/ * Initial discussion topics: https://www.w3.org/Payments/IG/wiki/Main_Page/DigitalOffers2016#Initial_Discussion_Topics Participants in the Community Group will determine their priorities and adjust their charter based on the consensus of the participants. Participants will also determine their ongoing meeting schedule.