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Action Groups

DataPortability Action Groups are official standing committees, approved by the Steering Group, whose charters define specific, ongoing work to realize the DataPortability Project mission.  Action Groups start as an idea by any member of the community, are proposed to the Steering Group, and are lead by a Chair.

Interested in starting an Action Group? Talk to a Steering Group member for guidance or post your idea to the general mailing list and start building on your idea.

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Steering Group

Description:
The DataPortability Project Steering Group helps manage the operational aspects of the project and is primarily focused on oversight of specific community initiatives. The work performed by the Steering Group is aimed at furthering the goals of the project as a whole, facilitating the work of the Action Groups and Task Forces and the broader community.  The Steering Group is not focused on specific project deliverables, but on supporting the work by the other groups.  The Steering Group is made up of 12 voting members of the project community who volunteer their time along with the input and guidance of other participating community members.

The Steering Group discusses DataPortability Project business on the following channels:

Chair: Daniela Barbosa

Steering Group Voting Members

Participants:

  • Stephen Kelly founding member of the APML workgroup, founding member of the dataportability movement
  • Christopher Allen, developed SSLREF 3.0 (the reference imp of SSL), co-editor of IETF RFC 2246 "The TLS Protocol", social software blogger www.LifeWithAlacrity.com, Identity Commons founding member.
  • Marjolein Hoekstra, CleverClogs. RSS manipulation nut by free choice. Community manager, evangelist, idea generator, blogger, news radar creator, bug-in-the-fur, inspirator, motivator, connector, founding member of the dataportability movement
  • Danny Ayers, Talis. Semantic Web enthusiast, cat lover, developer, columnist, standards wonk etc. On W3C SW Education & Outreach group.
  • Daniel Lewis, OpenLink Software. Social Network & Semantic Web technology evangelist/enthusiast, intelligent systems researcher/developer, wisdom-seeker
  • Devin C. Holloway: amateur blogger; entrepreneur; social technology/media evangelist
  • Ian Forrester: founding member of the dataportability movement
  • Richard Pendergast: (observing and participating only where i can add value - primarily focused upon implementation)
  • Aaron Cheung: Founder and CEO of YDRIVE and MyMesh.com
  • Paul Trevithick: working on v1.1 of the (open source) Higgins Global Graph (HGG) technology (a generalization of RDF): gathering requirements from this DP project, harmonizing the HGG and RDF data models. Also Higgins is looking for volunteers to created adapters for Linked Data, Open Social, Google Contacts, FOAF, etc.
  • Bob Ngu: Founder, CEO, CTO of JiggyMe, my blog on DataPortability http://ungeekdapo.wordpress.com/
  • Phillip Rhodes: Chief Architect, OpenQabal

Policy Group

The Policy Blueprint Group is 'in charge' of finding and solving potential policy, political and/or legal complexities in the DataPortability Technical Blueprint and finding ways to address them via T&Cs, Technical Blueprint Changes or other. In all cases the goal should be to find and contextualize existing work from other groups and weave them into a story - rather than to invent or discuss the problems/solutions from scratch.

Feel free to join the live chat in the public Skype chat room for the Policy Blueprint Group. Please refer to Google Groups as the preferred platform to discuss major issues, to announce projects and to present new knowledge. For assistance, connect to Marjolein Hoekstra on Skype.

Group Liaison
To be determined by the Policy Group. Action group deadline to determine the initial group liaison will be February 5 2008

Members

  • Alec Saunders, blogger, CEO iotum Corp
  • Iain Henderson, developing a personal data store application within the context of Project VRM
  • Adriana Lukas, focus on relationships between users away from platforms, sort of P2P TOCs, legal aspects but not limited to those
  • Peter Black, law lecturer/researcher in internet law and copyright law
  • Christopher Allen, developed SSLREF 3.0 (the reference imp of SSL), co-editor of IETF RFC 2246 "The TLS Protocol", social software blogger www.LifeWithAlacrity.com, Identity Commons founding member.
  • Brian Hayashi; founding member of IAB's committee to develop uniform terms & conditions; former director for now-defunct TCI Technology Ventures interacting with federal, state and local regulatory bodies; blogger; founder and CEO of two companies focused on commercial aspects of data portability: ConnectMe 360, Mallfinder Networks.
  • Elias Bizannes, Liako.Biz Interested in privacy
  • Richard Pendergast: (observing and participating only where i can add value - primarily focused upon implementation)
  • Brady Brim-DeForest: Serial entrepreneur, technologist and brand strategist.

Evangelism Group

The Evangelism group is 'in charge' of blogging the activities of standards groups and the DataPortability project and putting them in context of the story. DataPortability Documentation, particularly the ActionPacks, Buzz and other PR related documents are part of this portfolio.

Feel free to join the live chat in the public Skype chat room for the Evangelism group. Please refer to Google Groups as the preferred platform to discuss major issues, to announce projects and to present new knowledge. For assistance, connect to Marjolein Hoekstra on Skype.

Group Liaison
To be determined by the Evangelism Group. Action group deadline to determine the initial group liaison will be February 5 2008

Members

  • Elias Bizannes, blogger at Liako.Biz, heavily involved with student journalism once a upon a time
  • Michael Pick, Video Producer, Blogger, Social Medianaut
  • Zef Hemel, Blogger.
  • Paul Lamere: blogger, workgroup member, strong presence in the recommendation and music tech communities
  • Alec Saunders, blogger, CEO iotum Corp
  • Daniela Barbosa, blogger, Community/Social Media, Enterprise solutions experience, Information Science, Dow Jones
  • Marjolein Hoekstra, CleverClogs. RSS manipulation nut by free choice. Community manager, evangelist, idea generator, blogger, news radar creator, bug-in-the-fur, inspirator, motivator, connector, founding member of the dataportability workgroup
  • John Lawler, Sr. Director of Product Management, Identity.net. Marketing and evangelism. Also a member of the Implementation Workgroup.
  • J. Trent Adams: technology innovator & founder of MatchMine.
  • Marcus Estes: Director of the Free Music Archive and founder of Tables Turned
  • Devin C. Holloway: amateur blogger; entrepreneur; social technology/media evangelist
  • Richard Pendergast: (observing and participating only where i can add value - primarily focused upon implementation)
  • Daniel Lewis, OpenLink Software: Social Network & Semantic Web technology evangelist/enthusiast, technology-blogger, serial-barcamp-organiser
  • Ian Forrester: founding member of the dataportability movement
  • Brady Brim-DeForest: Serial entrepreneur, technologist and brand strategist.
  • Mike Reynolds: Founder of SquirrelNet.com, web developer and mathematician
  • Aaron Cheung: Founder and CEO of YDRIVE and MyMesh.com
  • Jacob Chapel: Blogger, see below.
  • Deepak Singh: Blogger, Open Science/Open Data evangelist, co-founder bioscreencast.com
  • Stephen Adkins: Coordinator of the SharedUniverse Project (http://www.shareduniverse.net/)
  • Stephen Collins, acidlabs - troublemaker, social networking and knowledge work evangelist
  • Phil Morle: CTO and advisor to startups and media companies. Founding dataportability chap.
  • Bob Ngu: Founder, CEO, CTO of JiggyMe, my blog on DataPortability http://ungeekdapo.wordpress.com/
  • Steve Repetti: Co-founder, Fifth Generation Systems, Inc., Technology Entrepreneur, Board member, Data Portability Steering Committee, author of: Zude, open5g, xWinLib, and Scrapplet

Technical Group

The Technical Group is 'in charge' of curating the Design goals, Use cases and Technical Blueprint development. In all cases the goal should be to find and contextualize existing work from other groups and weave them into a story - rather than to invent or discuss the problems/solutions from scratch.

Feel free to join the live chat in the public Skype chat room for the Technical Blueprint Group. Please refer to Google Groups as the preferred platform to discuss major issues, to announce projects and to present new knowledge. For assistance, connect to Marjolein Hoekstra on Skype.

Group Liaison
To be determined by the Technical Group. Action group deadline to determine the initial group liaison will be February 5 2008

Members

  • Christopher Allen, developed SSLREF 3.0 (the reference imp of SSL), co-editor of IETF RFC 2246 "The TLS Protocol", social software blogger www.LifeWithAlacrity.com, Identity Commons founding member.
  • Jon Tyson
    o Sr. Research Engineer at NICTA
    o Background in leading and implementing software development in Peer to Peer, Mobile Devices and various other industries
  • Joaquín Salvachúa: Associated professor/ researcher on protocol design, now on social soft. Infrastructure (may work on implementation too).
  • Brett Hammond: Senior Technology Strategist, VML. Current projects emphasize social networking and data visualization.
  • Richard Pendergast: (observing and participating only where i can add value - primarily focused upon implementation)
  • Danny Ayers, Talis. Spec dev experience through IETF & W3C. Primarily interested in ensuring maximal Web compatibility and minimum reinvention.
  • Ian Sefferman: Openomy (the Online File System).
  • Alex Vagin
  • Aaron Cheung: Founder and CEO of YDRIVE and MyMesh.com
  • Jacob Chapel
  • Phillip Rhodes: Chief Architect, OpenQabal
  • Steve Repetti: Co-founder, Fifth Generation Systems, Inc., Technology Entrepreneur, Board member, Data Portability Steering Committee, author of: Zude, open5g, xWinLib, and Scrapplet

Implementation Group

The Implementation Group is in charge of consulting with, and promoting examples of, those actually implementing DataPortability enabled code. This Action Group would include the participation of those actively working toward adopting the DataPortabilty standards. Any code should be encouraged to follow the Technical Blueprint for maximum interoperability

Feel free to join the live chat in the public Skype chat room for the Implementation Group. Please refer to Google Groups as the preferred platform to discuss major issues, to announce projects and to present new knowledge. For assistance, connect to Marjolein Hoekstra on Skype.

Group Liaison
To be determined by the Implemetation Group. Action group deadline to determine the initial group liaison will be February 5 2008

Members

  • Jon Cianciullo
    o Founder of Cluztr.com (one of the first online services to fully support APML)
    o Developer of Tagurself.com (remixes APML data in real-time and displays result in a tag cloud)
    o Member of the APML workgroup
    o Founding member of the dataportability movement
    o Author of numerous popular Facebook applications
    o Author of several APML and Engagd.com client libraries, guides, tutorials, and code samples
  • Richard Pendergast
    o Co-founder Not At All Strange
    o Developer mumspace.net
    o Old school solutions architect with international consulting experience in ERP, CRM, SCM, Data Warehousing, Data Mining and Middleware
    o More bartending certificates than IT qualifications
    o Try-hard designer
  • Paul Jones
    o Lead developer of Engagd.com
    o Specification maintainer for APML
  • Paul Lamere
    o Researcher at Sun Labs, Sun Microsystems
    o Developer of tastebroker.org (a set of tools/services that produce and consume APML)
    o Member of the APML/DataPortability workgroup
  • Dan Grigorovici
    o VP of Data Strategy & Analytics, AOL/Tacoda
    o Experience in data mining, warehousing, machine learning, and leveraging different data structures to build consumer-focused products
    o Working/experience on products/prototpye that will use portable data as input to Artificial Intelligence and Semantic Web processes
    o Technology innovator, deep networking in Web 2.0/3.0 data and apps
  • Matthew Rothenberg
    o Product strategy and management for Flickr.
    o Background in sociotechnical research on online identity and behavior.
  • John Lawler
    o Sr. Director of Product Management at Identity.net . At Demoxi, I lead product development which has included support for OpenID and various microformats, among other DPWG components
    o Background in security, privacy, and identity management
  • Jon Tyson
    o Sr. Research Engineer at NICTA
    o Background in leading and implementing software development in Peer to Peer, Mobile Devices and various other industries
  • Stephen Adkins
    o Coordinator of the SharedUniverse Project (http://www.shareduniverse.net/), a project to protect and extend users' online freedom, which intends to implement all of the dataportability.org standards.
    o VP Technology, The Rubicon Group (http://www.therubicongroup.com/corporate/managementteam.html)
    o See also http://www.linkedin.com/in/spadkins
  • Christopher Allen, developed SSLREF 3.0 (the reference imp of SSL), co-editor of IETF RFC 2246 "The TLS Protocol", social software blogger www.LifeWithAlacrity.com, Identity Commons founding member.
  • J. Trent Adams: technology innovator & founder of MatchMine.
  • Tom Morris: philosophy student, open source programmer (PHP, Python, Ruby, Java), GetSemantic.com convener and member of SWIG and microformats community.
  • Charlie O'Keefe: working on a site that will seek to make use of data portability standards.
  • Aaron Cheung: Founder and CEO of YDRIVE and MyMesh.com
  • Jacob Chapel
    o Co-Founder Not At All Strange
    o Developer Mumspace.net
    o Programmer (PHP, Ruby)
    o Background in community management and project planning.
  • Danny Ayers: Looking at implementation on Talis Platform
    o Community development liaison at Talis
    o Familiar with Semantic Web technologies
  • Daniel Lewis: implementations available in OpenLink Data Spaces (ODS)
    o Technology Evangelist at OpenLink Software
    o Web Developer & Intelligent Systems Researcher/Developer
    o Familiar with building bridges between Web 2.0/Social Network and Semantic Web
  • Ian Sefferman: Openomy (the Online File System)
  • Julian Bond. CTO Ecademy. PHP programmer. FOAF and Social APIs evangelist.
  • Alex Vagin
  • Manish Shah (Co-Founder Rapleaf.com, developer)
  • Dan Carroll, CEO IMP & Medici Digita
  • Mike Taylor (bear), Developer Seesmic, Python & Ruby programmer, Chandler
  • Henri Bergius: Midgard (open source CMS)
    o Entrepreneur at Nemein, a Finnish free software consultancy
    o Involved with APML and GeoWeb work in Midgard
    o PHP and Python programmer
  • Bob Ngu: Founder, CEO, CTO of JiggyMe, my blog on DataPortability http://ungeekdapo.wordpress.com/
  • Phillip Rhodes: Chief Architect, OpenQabal

Localization Group

The Localization Group is in charge of providing translations of the DataPortability website, documents, FAQ pages etc.
There is a special Google Group for this : http://groups.google.com/group/dataportabilityactionlocalization.
Feel free to also join the live chat in the public Skype chat room for the Localization Group. Please refer to Google Groups as the preferred platform to discuss major issues, to announce projects and to present new knowledge. For assistance, connect to Marjolein Hoekstra on Skype.

Please refer to the page Multi-lingual Translation of DP Assets to see a list of existing members per language. Please feel free to edit the linked page and add your name to the list of contributors. (is this page still usefull, as we now have a google group for this action group ? -Cédric)

ARCHIVE NOTE: This page was significantly updated on 9/29/2008.  Version immediately prior to the update.

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