San Francisco meeting 20 March 2008

Proposed Topics: 

• We can review what we have done to date, how everyone can continue to contribute and discuss gaps we can all work towards filling.
• Action Group presentations
  • activities to date
  • resources and commitments needed
• Evangelism
  • Logo Contest - Mary Trigiani
  • Message Plan - Phil Wolff
• Technical
  • The Great Challenges
• Short presentation about OpenFile (http://openfile.net) proposal for standards-based file access authorization (Adam Rosien, Sharpcast) Sorry I won't be able to make it tonight, day-job production fixes looming! - arosien

February San Francisco meeting meeting notes:

We will attempt to Ustream.tv for those that are remote, so feel free to add items to this thread that you would like to discuss/address.

Questions, comments please post on this thread or contact me at danielavbarbosa [@]gmail.com.

Meeting Recordings:

• Video: http://vimeo.com/817917
• Audio MP3: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DataPortabilityPodcasts/~5/257159114/dp_meetup_20080320.mp3

Meeting Notes:

DataPortability Evangelism Action Group Meetup

Date: 3/20/2008 6pm PT

Attendees (in person):

Chris Saad
Ben Metcalf
Brad Fitzpatric
Steve Williams (digg)
Christopher Allen
Trent Adams
Mary Trigianni (Foldier)
Jim Myer (LinkedIn)
Kevin Marks (Google / OpenSocial)
Phil Wolff (Skype Journal)
Daniela B. (Dow Jones)
Tobias Pegs (NuMedium ?)
Ari Vallabhaneni (Wameeni)
Aaron Melberger (Wameeni)
Bob Ngu (JiggyMe)
Martin Wells (Tangler, Nick 33)
David Recordon (Six Apart)
Sam Usaid (Six Apart)
Abdul Kahm
Kaliya Hamlin (Identity Community)
Gil Silverman (Peerfluence)

Attendees (via Skype):

Elias Bizannes
Jacob Chapel
Brady Brim-DeForest

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A. Chris gave same overview as on steering call (NOTE: copy notes from there)

B. Mary giving overview of Logo contest project (NOTE: copy notes from Steering)

• About 300 or so submissions
• Voting will be at: "DataPortablity.techcrunch,com"
• Discussion of who owns standards logos (eg. WiFi logo).
• Similar video contest project
• Favorite your logos on Flickr and and submit to Confluence
• Discussion about messaging at Web2.0 Conference

SIDE DISCUSSION: When setting up a camp at a conference, we need to be conscious of cost barriors.

C. Question: What's the general opinion of what's up?

• Concern about how to keep up every day.
• What's the highest signal to noise list?
  • Proposal: Should we have an announce only list?
• Explosion of scope, hard to get our arms around.
  • Proposal: Should we pick a narrow idea and go from there?
• Discussion of how to balance research / definition projects with "do stuff" projects.
  • Proposal of small technical implementation projects being good "Best Practices" to harness energy of community.
• Primary concern is how to more effectively harness contributing energy lost in the "research / standards development" phases
• Similar to "labs" or "sandbox" projects
• Suggestion: Encourage these projects as part of researching solutions
• There are different modes of research and learning
• Change the "Implementation Action Group" to "Labs Development Group"
• Go forth on Labs.
• Need to develop a "Participation Guidelines" message.
• Discussion regarding use of appropriate discussion, documentation, code repository workflows.
• Update: DataPortabiltiy.org site is being redesigned to help clarify / solve some of this as the primary face

D: Research Project & Outreach Update

• Focus on clear grid representation of the "what" and "who" so others can easily find those people.
• Consider concept of an address book model
• Deliverable: "contextual addressbook"
• The single list of supported standards is highly valuable to a programmer.
• Take the (existing?) mission statement and ensure the supported standards pass the litmus test
• Discussion about APIs vs openness

E. Round Table Comments of Interest:

• Chris Allen:
  • Wants help on Identity Commons Value Statement
  • CSS People
  • People to work on personalized "About Me" kind of pages
• Kaliya Hamlin:
  • DataSharingSummit.com Events:
  • DataSharing Workshop April 18th, 19th
  • Internet Identity Workshop May 12th
• Phil Wolf:
  • We need a marketing strategy to know when to say what to whom. Rolling talking points per month.
  • Thorny issues:
    • Data Interoperability Standards
    • Policy Issues
• Kevin Marks:
  • SocialGraph API
  • Contacts API
  • OpenSocial work with external API

F. Next meeting @ LinkedIN (Mountain View) - Time/Date TBD

Labs Update (post meeting by Bob Ngu)

New Google Groups for Labs:  http://groups.google.com/group/dataportabilitylabs

New Skype Chatroom: http://snipr.com/dp_labs_skype

My first introduction post on Labs

http://groups.google.com/group/dataportabilitylabs/browse_thread/thread/ffb380dabbf3d0b2/ec1a3e9c45c1890a#ec1a3e9c45c1890a