How to Get Involved

About this page

Page Purpose This page outlines How to Get Involved with the DataPortability project

• Definitions here are non-technical
• Contributors: daniela barbosa, Elias Bizannes, Chris Saad, Brady Brim-DeForest, Phil Wolff, Mike Chelen, J. Trent Adams, John Breslin, Julian Bond, Mike Prasad, Tom Morris
• The page is curated by the Communications Action Group

Stay Up-to-date

1. Announce Only Mailing List (Infrequent and milestone updates from the project)
2. Monthly Reports (Reports about our progress)
3. DataPortability Calendar (Keep track of upcoming events, calls, and meetings)

Participate

1. General Mailing List and Discussion Forum (For general announcements for and by the community)
2. Aggregator RSS Feed (The best posts about DataPortability related subjects across the Internet)
3. Twitter Bot (Blog updates published to Twitter)

Join the Conversation

1. Task Forces (Groups addressing a single problem or issue)
2. Action Groups (Official standing committees)
3. Register on the Wiki (Help us with wiki gardening, documenting and commenting)
4. Implement and Lobby for DataPortability (A guide for Engineers)

Obsession (Quit your day job)

1. Action Group Skype Chats (Action group real time chat - a way for getting to know the community leaders and seeing the bulk of discussion)
2. Chat on IRC channels #dataportability  on irc.freenode.net
3. Search Twitter for #dataportability hashtags

Workflow

The DataPortability Project is guided by its Governance Model. In summary:

• there are four types of groups: the plenary, the Steering Group, Actions groups and task forces
  • the plenary is the general body of the community. To be a voting member of the community you need to opt in - contact the Secretary J.Trent Adams if you would like to do so.
  • The Steering Group has 12 people elected from the plenary and holds most of the authority in the Project. Non-members are welcome to join meetings, although cannot vote on motions
  • Actions Groups are permanent bodies, with functions delegated by the Steering Group. We have one Action group called "Communications" who are responsible for all communication for the Project.
  • task forces are groups of people working on a deliverable, that disbands after a predefined time. The purpose of task forces is to create a way for the community to implement DataPortability on behalf of the Project.

For additional information, feel free to contact the Chair of steering [Daniela Barbosa] or any other member of Steering