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A brief overviewIn November 2007, a group of people invited by Chris Saad and from around the world, discussed the concept of data portability. It was a discussion of several overlapping ideas, such as a distributed filesystem for data and the issues surrounding this. In January 2008, Robert Scoble was kicked off Facebook, and announced that he was joining the DataPortability workgroup. Immediately after this event, a series of high profile endorsements were made by various companies. An explosion of interest occurred, and it was called one of the new key trends for 2008. A mailing list was created for non-workgroup members and after the Scoblegate incident, it exploded in discussion on a variety of topics. The original workgroup was deprecated in favour of a series of action groups: a Steering group to coordinate it, a technical group to design a technical spec, an implementation group to help implement the vision, a policy group to explore the policy issues, and an evangelism group to promote the concept. Membership was then open to the public. After several months of working with this model and goal, a formal governance model was developed which created an elected Steering group, and a series of action groups under it. The DataPortability Project has now evolved into an advocacy group, working towards its formal Vision & mission with a series of activities that realise this. |
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