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Saturday, February 28, 2009

January February 2009 DataPortability Project Report - Volume 2 No 1

Last changed Feb 28, 2009 10:04 by daniela barbosa
Labels: news, reports

January/February 2009 DataPortability Project Report is now available. …

Posted at Feb 28, 2009 by

daniela barbosa |

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Friday, November 28, 2008

Announcing our New DataPortability Project Community Manager Danny Housseas

Labels: news, community, manager

A couple weeks ago we put out a message for a Volunteer Community Manager for the DataPortability Project and i am proud to announce that Danny Housseas has agreed to fill this role starting immediately!

As the DataPortability Project continues to grow and more and more users, vendors and developers talk and ask questions about data portability, …

Posted at Nov 28, 2008 by

daniela barbosa |

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Friday, November 14, 2008

Initial Healthcare Task Force Teleconference

Last changed Mar 12, 2010 07:39 by Adam Walsh
Labels: news, healthcare, taskforce

The DataPortability Project Healthcare Task Force met on Thursday, November 13, 2008. The goal of the Task Force is to identify the unique requirements within the generalized healthcare domain to support the ability for networked entities to access and otherwise leverage consumer-centric data. Once identified, the Task Force will publish guidance to facilitate user-controlled, privacy-respecting data portability. …

Posted at Nov 14, 2008 by

J. Trent Adams |

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Monday, August 11, 2008

The first four DP.org steering group officers selected

Last changed Aug 11, 2008 20:04 by Phil Wolff
Labels: news, steering

Five volunteers took on new responsibilities at today's weekly steering group conference call. Congratulations to Daniela Barbosa, our first steering group chair; Elias Bizannes, vice chair; J. Trent Adams, secretary; and Brady Brim-DeForest, treasurer. Separately, Chris Saad stood up to chair the Communications Action Group ([Communications charter|http://wiki.dataportability. …

Posted at Aug 11, 2008 by

Phil Wolff |

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Friday, August 8, 2008

June & July Report Published

Labels: news

The June/July combined monthly report has been published and is available for viewing:

The June/July report is available for viewing in both PDF or in HTML.

The monthly report aims to highlight things that affect and drive the DataPortability Project. …

Posted at Aug 08, 2008 by

daniela barbosa |

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Saturday, July 5, 2008

San Francisco Meetup July 21st 6pm

Last changed Jul 22, 2008 23:11 by daniela barbosa
Labels: news, meetup

What:	DataPortability local meeting
When:	Monday, 21 July 2008, 6pm-9pm Pacific
Where:	Schroeder's 240 Front Street, San Francisco, California 94111 (Free WIFI)
RSVP:	Upcoming page (please RSVP)
Thanks:

Proposed Meeting Topics:

As of Sunday July 20th the attendee RSVP is a small group (probably because i have been away and did not properly advertise this meet-up). …

Posted at Jul 05, 2008 by

daniela barbosa |

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Saturday, June 21, 2008

DataPortability Los Angeles Meetup

Last changed Jun 21, 2008 13:12 by Brady Brim-DeForest
Labels: news, meetup

What:	DataPortability Los Angeles Meetup
When:	Monday, 23 June 2008, 7pm-9pm Pacific
Where:	Found Gallery, 1903 Hyperion Avenue, Los Angeles, California
RSVP:	Upcoming page

Join us this Monday, June 23, at Found Gallery in Los Angeles, for the 3rd monthly Los Angeles DartPortability Meetup. Co-hosted by Brady Brim-DeForest and Michael Lambie.

Things kick off at 7pm. Read the [full details|http://wiki. …

Posted at Jun 21, 2008 by

Brady Brim-DeForest |

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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

May 2008 DataPortability Project Report Published- With a new look and format

Last changed Jun 11, 2008 15:38 by daniela barbosa
Labels: news

The May DataPortability Project Report has been published. It is a couple days late since I was working on the new format and I have been on the road- but hopefully you will like the new format and we can continuously build on these monthly reports that serve not only active DataPortability Project members but also users, vendors and developers who want to be kept informed on the progress of the project. …

Posted at Jun 11, 2008 by

daniela barbosa |

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Friday, May 23, 2008

DataPortability Los Angeles Meetup

Last changed May 23, 2008 13:10 by Brady Brim-DeForest
Labels: news

What:	DataPortability Los Angeles Meetup
When:	Saturday, 24 May 2008, 7pm-10pm Pacific
Where:	Found Gallery, 1903 Hyperion Avenue, Los Angeles, California
RSVP:	Upcoming page

Join us this Saturday, May 24, at Found Gallery in Los Angeles, for the 2nd monthly Los Angeles DartPortability Meetup.

Things kick off at 7pm. Read the [full details|http://wiki.dataportability. …

Posted at May 23, 2008 by

Brady Brim-DeForest |

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Saturday, May 17, 2008

RFC - How to find consensus for Technical Documentation

Last changed Nov 21, 2008 22:06 by Elias Bizannes
Labels: news

One problem we usually have in the Technical Action Group (TAG) is how to find consensus on certain points. In order to solve this the following process is proposed:

Process - How to find consensus

This announcement follows this process. So please discuss this proposal as defined inside it until May 24th 12PM GMT.

The process tries to solve the following problems:

discussion is only happening between 2-3 participants in the TAG usually. …

Posted at May 17, 2008 by

Christian Scholz |

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Message Calendar for May 2008 - Direction

Last changed Nov 21, 2008 22:08 by Elias Bizannes
Labels: message, calendar, evangelism, news

Our message of the month is that DataPortability.org has direction. Three, actually.

Doing the Right Thing: the challenge of morals, ethics, and laws
Supporting the Social Software Stack
Technology Evangelism and Consumer Marketing

DataPortability.org volunteers embrace these challenges with small projects. Read more about the DataPortability. …

Posted at May 07, 2008 by

Phil Wolff |

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Thursday, May 1, 2008

DataPortability DIY - "rel=me" Project

Labels: news, diy, project

The DataPortability DIY Club light up the first monthly project for May: "rel=me"

Join the fun!

Posted at May 01, 2008 by

J. Trent Adams |

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Sunday, April 27, 2008

FastCompany's Scoble plugs DP.org

Last changed Apr 27, 2008 15:49 by Phil Wolff
Labels: scoble, fastcompany, coverage, evangelism, news

The topic is the Internet's utter lack of usability in Robert Scoble's May 2008 FastCompany column, How to Fix the Web: The online world isn't always user-friendly. But it easily could be.

The problem:

"For all the cool things we can do, …

Posted at Apr 27, 2008 by

Phil Wolff |

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Our sticky message

Last changed Apr 24, 2008 10:12 by Phil Wolff
Labels: news, labels, logo

The labels for the Web 2.0 Expo arrive. Photo by Daniela.

Posted at Apr 23, 2008 by

Phil Wolff |

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Saturday, April 19, 2008

Insert Logo Here

Last changed Nov 21, 2008 22:04 by Elias Bizannes
Labels: news

DataPortability Logo Contest ended Friday night.

Many votes cast.

No hanging chads.

Results to be announced at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco on Tuesday or Wednesday. Thanks for voting!

Posted at Apr 19, 2008 by

Phil Wolff |

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Re: [DataPortability-Public] DataPortability in your product...
Go, Steve! I'll help write / edit the posts.

Steve

DataPortability in your product...
Looking for products that have done a great job implementing Data
Portability. If you have one, or know of one, please post a link here with
a brief description of why you think it has a great data portability
implementation. Coolest ones may get written up in the official
DataPortability blog!!

Re: CALL FOR DATA PORTABILITY TOPICS
Hi.

Maybe not exactly a DP topic, but I thought I might want to share a pointer
to : Terms of Service; Didn't Read [link] which seems to
address similar concerns.

Hope this is interesting, and sorry for the duplicate pointer if you had
noticed already.

Best regards,

Le jeudi 7 juin 2012 16:46:03 UTC+2, Steve Repetti a écrit :

Re: [DataPortability-Public] CALL FOR DATA PORTABILITY TOPICS
Hi Steve, how about a post/ series of posts on the subject of organisations returning data to their customers, as per this post (which I authored).

It occurs that these various initiatives (midata in UK, smart data in USA) are actually data portability by another name?

The problem with their approach is that they are currently point solutions; we don't need point solutions, we need take that general requirement (return co-owned data to a customer) and make that easy to deploy, and even easier to understand.

CALL FOR DATA PORTABILITY TOPICS
Got a great idea regarding Data Portability?
Seen an awesome article on DP?
Had an experience with DP you'd like to share?

We're looking for help from YOU -- feedback, guidance, suggestions!

And, if you'd love to articulate this in a blog post -- even better!

Regardless, this is such an important topic --- let's keep the

Connect.me and Personal in today's NY Times!
Congrats to Drummond Reed and the rest of the folks over at
connect.me, as well as the folks at personal.com and others for being
featured today in an article in the NY Times:

Start-Ups Seek to Help Users Put a Price on Their Personal Data

[link]

Re: [DP.AG.Steering] Steering Group 2011
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Drummond Reed <drummond.r...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Me too.
Phil Wolff
managing editor, Skype Journal
[link]
pwo...@skypejournal.com
skype:evanwolf
+1-510-444-8234 San Francisco
+1-510-290-0073 mobile
[link]
[link]

Sterring Group
Thius message is posted on behalf of Dan Brickley:

[3:38:13 PM] Dan Brickley:
"Getting back involved. This is a note to volunteer availability for
the steering committee in 2012...
though frankly it's a bit cheeky to flip between wandering-off-
completely and asking to be on steering :/

Re: [DP.AG.Steering] Steering Group 2011
Per the bylaws, this is notice that I am volunteering to serve on the Data
Portability Steering Committee for 2012.
Best,
=Drummond Reed

Steering Committee Deadline
All those interested in serving on the Data Portability Steering
Committee -- please note you must state your intentions on this
mailing list no later than midnight tonight (February 8th) Pacific
Time.

Thanks,

--Steve Repetti

I would like to serve on the Data Portability steering group
Having been involved in the Data Portability organization for the last
4 years, and the movement in general for a lot longer than that, I
would like to serve on the steering committee.

I have always felt that this is truly an important cause and I believe
its importance will only increase. I look forward to the active

I would like to serve on the data portability sterring committee
I wish to offer myself as a candidate for the steering committee.
I believe that the ideas of data portability remain as relevant as they
were the day that this organization was founded.
Over the course of the next year, I would like to see this organization
re-engage in the broader conversation around digital life.

Data Portability Elections!
Recently, the DataPortability organization requested pursuant to its
bylaws reaffirmation of participation in the DataPortability Plenary.
As a result of that request, the following individuals responded in
the affirmative:

Dan Brickley, Steve Greenberg, Drummond Reed, Elias Bizannes, Phil
Wolfe, Brady Brim-DeForest, Steve Williams, Pratibha Rai, Willem

Open DataPortability Call
Please join use Wednesday, January 25th, at 4pm PT, for an open
meeting to discuss Data Portability in general and the DataPortability
organization in particular.

Conference Call: 1-201-793-9022, Participant Access Code 1719146

Via Skype: +9900827041719146

Regards,

Steve Repetti
Chairman, DataPortability.org

2011 Recap ? - Was: Re: [DataPortability-Public] DataPortability Membership Re-affirmation
Hi.
Maybe I missed these...
Would it be possible to have a recap of DP things in 2011 on that list
(unless I'm wrong with the topic of the list), which would be quite
interesting to read IMHO (more than reaffirmations, etc.).
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,

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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