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What is Data Portability?

• Data Portability is a way of making your application or company part of a world-wide ecosystem of user data. Reduce friction when signing up and increase your overall understanding of your users, their friends and their interests.
• Engineers, Marketers, Legal Experts, Graphic Designers and Cultural Theorists are all working on various parts of the problem right now
• The DataPortability project is the first, best place to learn more and participate. We are producing a set of documents that explain the best practices for your technical, legal and user experience team to implement to become 'DataPortability Enabled.'

DataPortability.org is an open project supported by the community!

• We have public support from Microsoft, Google, Facebook, SixApart, Digg, Plaxo, Linkedin and 1000s of other participants

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• Dec Jan Monthly Report Draft
• March 2008 report
• April 2008 Report
• February 2008 Report
• January 2008 report

Community Updates

Upcoming: DataPortability Events (Events feed for the DataPortability Group on Upcoming.)
Mar 12, 2010: South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival 2010 at Austin Convention Center
Mar 13, 2010: Mobile Social SXSW at Brush Square Park
Mar 13, 2014: Pub Standards 100 at Bricklayers Arms, Fitzrovia
Apr 19, 2010: Emerging Communications (eComm) America 2010 at San Francisco Airport Marriott
Apr 27, 2010: The Next Web Conference 2010 at Westergasfabriek

RE: [DP.AG.Steering] Next meeting of the Data Portability TOS/EULA working group: Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 at 20:00 UTC Awesome job! +1 big time! [mailto:dataportabilityactions teering@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steven Greenberg Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 1:50 AM To: dataportability-public@googleg roups.com; dataportabilityactionsteering@ googlegroups.com; Ozburn, Mike [USA]; David, Scott; Christopher Camp; stollma...@gmail.com

Next meeting of the Data Portability TOS/EULA working group: Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 at 20:00 UTC We had a great call last week, and I'd like to keep the momentum moving. One of the key decisions was to hold meetings weekly. We've chosen IIW as the delivery date for our next milestones, with a checkpoint at RSA. Things are going well, and I'm excited by the progress and interest. Additionally, I recommended to Steering that we declare success and close

Re: Renaming the TOS/EULA work group as the "Portability Policy" working group Yep, "Portability Policy" works for me too, great catch-all that the masses will understand such as Identity Portability and so on.... thanks. On Feb 3, 10:00 pm, Steven Greenberg <green...@puzzlingevidence.net > wrote:

Re: [DP.AG.Steering] Renaming the TOS/EULA work group as the "Portability Policy" working group Agree. Briliant. +1 On Feb 3, 2010, at 1:10 PM, Drummond Reed

Re: [DP.AG.Steering] Renaming the TOS/EULA work group as the "Portability Policy" working group +++1 to calling both the group and the work "Portability Policy". It's brilliant. We want every user in the world asking every site what its Portability Policy is. Gets my vote for best new 2010 term in the user-centric identity space. =Drummond

Re: [DP.AG.Steering] Renaming the TOS/EULA work group as the "Portability Policy" working group Good idea Steve. However, I suggest another approach. I propose we disband the EULA task force as it's achieved it's deliverable. What we do next is create an action group who's role is to architect and stragise our EULA work (and call that the Portability Policy Action Group). As a permanent standing committee, this makes the EULA work a core part of

Renaming the TOS/EULA work group as the "Portability Policy" working group As this group has continued our work, it's become apparent that the key to what we're doing is the "Portability Policy". The TOS and EULA are a couple of the details we'll need to work out in order to complete this work. I propose that we rename the "TOS / EULA Work Group" to "Portability Policy" work group. Our goals and deliverables do not change as a result of this,

Next meeting of the Data Portability TOS/EULA working group: Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 at 20:00 UTC Ok, 2010 is well under way. Time to get re-engaged. Having targets has worked well for this group, so here's our next one: *I want to have public-facing versions of the presentation (including a slick, embed-able video), at least one white paper, and a working version of the application ready to present for **IIW10* <[link]>*.

RE: [DataPortability-Public] Updating the EULA/TOS Questions and Icons Great Work, Phil! EVERYONE should re-tweet this! --Steve Repetti [mailto:dataportability-public @googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Phil Wolff Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 10:25 PM To: dataportability-public@googleg roups.com These are my views and my extended version of the Portability Policy questions, not yet approved by the DPP. As posted to Skype Journal.

Updating the EULA/TOS Questions and Icons These are my views and my extended version of the Portability Policy questions, not yet approved by the DPP. As posted to Skype Journal. Wednesday, January 27, 2010. [link] Phil Wolff - Icons for a Data Portability Policy – a few thoughts

Next meeting of the TOS/EULA working group: Wednesday, January 13 at 20:00 UTC Hope everyone had a nice, relaxing break. It's time to get back to work! We've made good progress and Steering has backed us. We're getting some traction. Now for some speed. I have started on a design for the application, and want to discuss Elias' white paper. We need to update the presentation.

regrets for this week's meetings I'm off to CES. Phil Wolff managing editor, Skype Journal [link] pwo...@skypejournal.com pwo...@googlewave.com skype:evanwolf +1-510-444-8234 San Francisco +1-510-316-9773 mobile [link] [link] [link] [link]

CMS and ONC Issue Regulations Proposing a Definition of "Meaningful Use" and Setting Standards for Electronic Health Record Incentive Program For those of you interested in health record portability... *From:* 18 existing FFS provider listservs [mailto: ALL_FFS_PROVID...@LIST.NIH.GOV ] *On Behalf Of *CMS CMSProviderResource *Sent:* Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:58 AM *To:* ALL_FFS_PROVID...@LIST.NIH.GOV *Subject:* CMS and ONC Issue Regulations Proposing a Definition of

Re: [DataPortability-Public] What's an open standard? The first step is to get the data out in a way that is at least documented and machine readable, even if it's in excel or text files. Between the external ecosystem that wants to get and distribute and analyze data and the internal IT folks who want to strip all the effort out of disclosure, I'm pretty sure new standards will emerge and the "plaxos" of the world will

Re: [DataPortability-Public] Next meeting of the TOS/EULA working group: Wednesday, December 15 at 20:00 UTC On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Steven Greenberg < This one - the TOS tracker :) [link] [link] very helpful when looking at shifts in time.

DataPortability: In-Motion Podcast - 2008/07/18 We talk to Paul Madsen, a member of the Technology Expert Group in Liberty Alliance in this episode of DataPortability: In-Motion Podcast. Through the conversation, he dives into SAML and how the Identity Web Services Framework (ID-WSF) and related specifications fit into a comprehensive identity solution stack. In response to the question about implementation difficulty, he points to the work underway by OpenLiberty.org developing a set of deployable ID-WSF libraries. Another project that helps bridge between specifications is Project Concordia. Leading the episode, we quickly touch on the following bits of news: Microsoft Opens Live Mesh, IBM & Linden Labs Demonstrate Avatar Portability, Project VRM Workshop Recap, IDDY 2008 Awards Announced

DP Steering Group Telecon - 2008/06/30 DataPortabiltiy Steering Action Group teleconference on Monday, June 30, 2008

DataPortability: In-Motion Podcast - 2008/06/27 Episode 12 of the DataPortability: In-Motion Podcast welcomes Steve back to the fold. In this episode we talk to Drummond Reed (a.k.a. =Drummond), a valued participant in across the identity and data portability space. Drummond is most well known as one of the pioneers of the XRI (Extensible Resource Identifier) and XDI (XRI Data Interchange) open standards at OASIS where he co-chairs the XDI and XRI Technical Committees. During the discussion, Drummond identified two key areas needing solutions within the scope of data portability: common definitions and portable authorization. XDI and link contracts solve these problems. "In the context of data portability, ever since I first heard the term when wearing my XDI TC hat, I said, 'That's like the mission statement for the XDI Technical Committee in two words. Why didn't we just say it's data portability.' If there's one headline feature of XDI, it's data portability. XDI is a protocol for sharing data, just like HTTP is a protocol for sharing content." Of note, history was in the making during the discussion. While hunting for an appropriate analogy describing the underlying description model, Steve hit upon using the periodic table of elements. Look for Drummond using it in his next series of talks. Leading the episode: Graphing Social Patterns East, Supernova 2008 Conference, Plaxo Personal Card + Google FriendConnect, MySpace Data Availability Launches, Information Card Foundation Launches

DP Steering Group Telecon - 2008/06/23 DataPortabiltiy Steering Action Group teleconference on Monday, June 23, 2008

DP Steering Group Telecon - 2008/06/16 DataPortabiltiy Steering Action Group teleconference on Monday, June 16, 2008

DataPortability: In-Motion Podcast - 2008/06/13 After a brief hiatus last week as Trent and Steve were otherwise indisposed, the DataPortability: In-Motion Podcast is back at half strength. Steve is still MIA, but joining Trent in the virtual studio is Bob Ngu, Founder of Jiggyme.com, a video aggregation startup that is beginning to focus specifically on technology videos. Bob has been an active contributor to the DataPortability Project since March, and was highlighted in the project's May report. The spotlight was shined on his DataPortability: In the Wild blog series. In this series, Bob outlines his discussions with various people involved with data portability. Among the areas he's covered so far include: Lessons from coding XFN, Exploring floe.tv, DiSo profile plugin

DP Steering Group Telecon - 2008/06/09 DataPortabiltiy Steering Action Group teleconference on Monday, June 9, 2008

DP Steering Group Telecon - 2008/06/02 DataPortabiltiy Steering Action Group teleconference on Monday, June 2, 2008

DataPortability: In-Motion Podcast - 2008/05/30 In this very special episode of the DataPortability: In-Motion Podcast, Trent's brother R. Mark Adams joins the data portability discussion. He is a genetic engineer who earned his Ph.D. in cell biology and was a pioneer in the field of bioinformatics. He is currently a Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton and runs their bioinformatics group. Of specific interest related to data portability is his work for the open CaBIG (Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid) project, a National Cancer Institute initiative to link cancer researchers and their data. Up until now, we have focused primarily on the use cases around existing social networking websites. There is, however, a wealth of knowledge and experience to be tapped within other fields. Mark has worked for over 15 years designing and building large-scale informatics systems. Further, his extensive experience within the standards and open source communities place him in a unique position to provide valuable insight into issues being explored by the DataPortability Project.

DataPortability: In-Motion Podcast - 2008/05/23 We are joined by Robert Scoble in episode 9 of the DataPortability: In-Motion Podcast. Currently the Managing Director of FastCompany.tv, he is a well-known and respected technology pundit who got his start blogging at UserLand. He is well known as an early advocate of the DataPortability Project when he tried to download his social data from Facebook. The show is kicked off with a discussion about his recent speculation that Microsoft could buy Facebook and keep it closed. Scoble talks about the services and tools like FriendFeed that offer alternate news streams to counter the Facebook hegemony. The discussion also flowed around automated behavior tracking, advertizing, and the interplay between control/privacy within various portable data models.

DP Steering Group Telecon - 2008/05/19 DataPortabiltiy Steering Action Group teleconference on Monday, May 19, 2008

DataPortability: In-Motion Podcast - 2008/05/16 In episode 8 of the DataPortability: In-Motion Podcast we diverge from the standard format to dive beyond the headlines to explore recent news. We spent the time talking in depth about the Comcast acquisition of Plaxo and Google's release of Friend Connect. For Plaxo, we have Joseph Smarr, Chief Platform Architect, and John McCrae, VP Marketing, talking about the acquisition and how it furthers data portability. Specifically, Smarr made it clear that the of the game in portablity is not making everything homogenous, but rather opening up the flow of communication across systems. In the discussion Kevin Marks, Developer Advocate for OpenSocial, also corrects some common misconceptions around Google's Friend Connect. Some of the reporting about it mistakenly assumed that Google would be syphoning off the friendship graph when using it's system used to connect sites. He clarifies that Friend Connect enables the portability of user data by mapping the connections, and isn't storing the data itself.

DP Steering Group Telecon - 2008/05/12 DataPortabiltiy Steering Action Group teleconference on Monday, May 12, 2008

DataPortability: In-Motion Podcast - 2008/05/09 We kick off episode 7 of the DataPortability: In-Motion Podcast with the news of the week that MySpace launched "Data Availability" with Yahoo!, eBay, Photobucket, and Twitter. Following immediately on their heels was the announcement that Facebook is releasing "Facebook Connect", an extension of their 3rd party API providing deeper access to their user's data. We're also joined by Brady Brim-Deforest, founder of Human Global Media, talking about the DataPortability Legal Entity Taskforce. He provides a good overview and update on the process underway to formalize the the project under a recognized legal banner. The featured interview segment is with Danny Ayers, Semantic Web Developer at Talis. He touches on moving from document linking, through microformats, to feature-rich RDF modeling to identify portable data. Contrary to popular belief, he dispels the myth that it's hard to migrate from a standard SQL data representation into addressable semantic objects.

DP Steering Group Telecon - 2008/05/05 DataPortabiltiy Steering Action Group teleconference on Monday, May 5, 2008

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TOS/EULA Working group call Recurring Event First start: 2010-02-03 15:00:00 EST Duration: 3600 Where: Skype: +9900827043965594 Dial-Up: 1-201-793-9022 Room Code: 3965594 Event Status: confirmed

MySpace devJam When: Thu Jan 14, 2010 9pm to Fri Jan 15, 2010 1am  GMT+00:00 Who: DataPortability Calendar Where: MySpace SF - 625 2nd Street - San Francisco, CA 94107 - Event Status: confirmed

Mozilla Privacy Icon When: Wed Jan 27, 2010 6pm to 11pm  GMT+00:00 Where: 650 Castro street, suite 300, mountain view, ca 94041 Event Status: confirmed

DataPortability Project steering When: Wed Jan 27, 2010 4pm to 5pm  GMT+00:00 Where: 1-201-793-9022 Room Code: 3965594 Event Status: confirmed

DPP TOS/EULA Call When: Wed Dec 16, 2009 8pm to 9pm  GMT+00:00 Who: DataPortability Calendar Where: Skype: +9900827043965594 Dial-Up: 1-201-793-9022 Room Code: 3965594 Event Status: confirmed

DataPortability Project Revenue/Spending Call When: Thu Dec 10, 2009 4pm to 4:30pm  GMT+00:00 Where: Skype Event Status: confirmed

DataPortability Project Revenue/Spending Call Recurring Event First start: 2009-11-19 08:00:00 PST Duration: 1800 Where: Skype Event Status: confirmed

DataPortability Steering Meeting When: Tue Dec 1, 2009 4pm to 5pm  GMT+00:00 Replaces event originally scheduled for: Wed Dec 2, 2009 3pm Where: Teleconference: Skype:+9900827043965594 Dial-Up: 1-201-793-9022 Room Code: 3965594 Event Status: confirmed

Portability Policy Workshop When: Sat Oct 24, 2009 6pm to 11pm  GMT+00:00 Where: TBD, San Francisco, CA Event Status: confirmed

TOS / EULA Recurring Event First start: 2009-06-03 20:00:00 GMT+00:00 Duration: 3600 Event Status: confirmed

Steering Group meeting Recurring Event First start: 2009-07-28 UTC Duration: 86400 Except on: Tue Jul 28, 2009  Where: Teleconference Event Status: confirmed

Second Life DataPortability Meetup Recurring Event First start: 2008-04-20 18:00:00 GMT+00:00 Duration: 3600 Where: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Stadt/185/83/23 Event Status: confirmed

Global Conference Call with Project Analysts- Bi weekly call Recurring Event First start: 2009-02-05 20:00:00 GMT+00:00 Duration: 3600 Where: Skype:+9900827041975640 Event Status: confirmed

DP telecon When: Tue Jun 30, 2009 9pm to 10pm  GMT+00:00 Event Status: confirmed

DP telecon Recurring Event First start: 2009-06-02 21:00:00 GMT+00:00 Duration: 3600 Event Status: confirmed

DP telecon Recurring Event First start: 2009-04-07 20:00:00 GMT+00:00 Duration: 3600 Event Status: confirmed

DP Steering Teleconference When: Tue Mar 10, 2009 8pm to 9pm  GMT+00:00 Event Status: confirmed

DP Steering Teleconference Recurring Event First start: 2009-01-06 20:00:00 GMT+00:00 Duration: 3600 Event Status: confirmed

DataPortability Steering Meeting Recurring Event First start: 2009-08-05 15:00:00 GMT+00:00 Duration: 3600 Where: Teleconference: Skype:+9900827043965594 Dial-Up: 1-201-793-9022 Room Code: 3965594 Event Status: confirmed

DataPortability Governance Telecon Recurring Event First start: 2008-06-09 21:00:00 GMT+00:00 Duration: 3600 Except on: Tue Jun 10, 2008  Where: Skype Teleconference Event Status: confirmed

Community Leadership Summit 2009 Recurring Event First start: 2009-07-18 15:00:00 GMT+00:00 Duration: 43200 Where: Computer History Museum, 1401 N Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, California 94043 Event Status: confirmed

DataPortability Steering Meeting When: Tue Nov 3, 2009 3pm to 4pm  GMT+00:00 Replaces event originally scheduled for: Wed Nov 4, 2009 3pm Where: Teleconference: Skype:+9900827043965594 Dial-Up: 1-201-793-9022 Room Code: 3965594 Event Status: confirmed

DataPortability Steering Meeting When: Tue Oct 6, 2009 3pm to 4pm  GMT+00:00 Replaces event originally scheduled for: Wed Oct 7, 2009 3pm Where: Teleconference: Skype:+9900827043965594 Dial-Up: 1-201-793-9022 Room Code: 3965594 Event Status: confirmed

CHIFOO Meeting: The Ebb and Flow of Activity Streams - Portland When: Thu Oct 8, 2009 2am to 4am  GMT+00:00 Where: Jive Software, 915 SW Stark St., Suite 400 Portland, Oregon 97205 Event Status: confirmed

Communications Action Group Weekly Call: THURSDAY's 1500 UTC Recurring Event First start: 2009-08-13 15:00:00 GMT+00:00 Duration: 3600 Where: Skyp, Dial-in please see agenda for details- http://wiki.dataportability.org/x/BAB0 Event Status: confirmed

by Albert Brown (16 hours ago) Advanced Acai (The DataPortability Project)

by jaffbrown (30 Jan) Re: Initial Healthcare Task Force Teleconference (The DataPortability Project)

by lady johansdel (30 Jan) Re: Initial Healthcare Task Force Teleconference (The DataPortability Project)

by Steve Repetti (27 Jan) Steering Group Telecon - January 27th 2010 (The DataPortability Project)

by Ewan Josef (20 Jan) Initial Healthcare Task Force Teleconference (The DataPortability Project)

by Steve Repetti (18 Jan) Home (The DataPortability Project)

by oliver d'souza (11 Jan) Re: Initial Healthcare Task Force Teleconference (The DataPortability Project)

by michhorry (05 Jan) Home (The DataPortability Project)

by jony jananrdan (24 Dec) Acnezine (The DataPortability Project)

by jony jananrdan (24 Dec) Re: Motion to Endorse Health Data Bill of Rights (The DataPortability Project)

by chaappel (19 Dec) Re: Motion to Endorse Health Data Bill of Rights (The DataPortability Project)

by Sebastian (16 Dec) Re: Motion to Endorse Health Data Bill of Rights (The DataPortability Project)

by Steven Greenberg (15 Dec) EULA and ToS template (The DataPortability Project)

by Steve Repetti (14 Dec) Steering Group Motions (The DataPortability Project)

by Steve Repetti (14 Dec) Steering Group Telecon - December 1st 2009 (The DataPortability Project)