commit 7352c2784b9caa32ef012cac2042eec779a51989
parent a1690b1d5f6e86286542c224a618024ea5c8ded4
Author: Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 09:50:33 +0100
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1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/presentations/pitch-ubs/pitch5m-script.txt b/presentations/pitch-ubs/pitch5m-script.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ to society.
You should think of Taler as Cash for the digital world. Let's see how it
would work.
-# Dold: We said we're doing the computer purchase story,
+# Dold: We said we're doing the computer purchase story,
# Dold: but I think the pregnancy story grabs more attention.
# Dold: The refund is included later.
@@ -99,27 +99,29 @@ All protocols are documented as an open standard.
# Dold: Yes, stallman would hate 'open source' here ... not
# sure if they know who Richard is ...
-The open source community knows about our project, and we are endorsed by the
-Dr. Richard Stallman, founder of the free software foundation.
+Many in the privacy and network security community support our project,
+and Dr. Richard Stallman, founder of the free software foundation actively promotes it.
# Dold: Is this true?
-We have prototypes of the core components of the systems, and we have been
-offered partnerships by hardware manifacturers for the NFC token.
+We have prototypes of the core components of the systems, and we are in
+discussions with various hardware design companies building NFC devices
+and also point-of-sale system vendors.
# Dold: We should mention a more detailed timeline, when
# we want to have all the non-hardware technical stuff done.
# Dold: We should mention nana here.
-Our connections to activists and journalists, who desperately need something
+Our connections to activists and journalists, who urgently need something
like Taler, will help us to gain the critical mass for wide adoption.
-Our business would live from fees for operating components of the
-system, as well as the integration into online/offline stores.
+Our business would receive fees for operating components of the
+system, as well as offer support for integration into online/offline stores.
We want to start with online payments, and later expand
-to offline solutions with hardware tokens.
+to offline solutions using NFC.
# Dold: Anything else we need from them?
-However, we still need help on the legal, regulatory and operational aspects,
-this is something where we believe UBS could help us lot.
+However, we still need help on the legal, regulatory and operational
+aspects, this is something where we are trying to engage existing
+banks like UBS with their domain expertise.
[end slide with names, institution logos]
@@ -140,4 +142,3 @@ this is something where we believe UBS could help us lot.
# Dold: Estimate of the size of our team / time we can spend on it.
# Dold: If not for the slides, at least for the questions.
-
