Global Conference Call with Project Analysts- Jan 21st, 2009

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Announcement 

WHAT: DataPortability Project Project Analysts
WHEN: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 20:00 - 21:00 UTC

• San Francisco: 12pm
• Boston: 3pm
• London: 8pm
• Berlin: 9pm
• Sydney: 7am (January 22)
• Time Zone Chart: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=1&day=13&year=2009&hour=20&min=0&sec=0&p1=0&sort=2
• Countdown to call:  http://timeanddate.com/counters/customcounter.html?month=1&day=21&year=2009&hour=20&min=00&sec=00&p0=0

WHO: Open to any contributors, Project Analysts attendance requested
WHERE:

• Skype: +9900827041975640
• Dial-Up: 1-201-793-9022 Room Code: 1975640
• Back Channel: http://snipr.com/dp_steering_skype

PRE WORK:

• Review Project Analyst Role Description
• Review DataPortability Official Blog and Editorial Policy (top of blog)
• Review recent DataPortabilty Project Reports
• Come prepared to provide an introduction to the group, to highligh your interests and how you plan on contributing (please contact Danny or Daniela if you have questions)
• Think about a list of blogger/influencers in the fields/regions you are focused on (we will be collecting them here so feel free to start adding!)

PROPOSED AGENDA:

• Introductions
• Brief
• What we are looking for
• Which roles can you fill?
• Develop a process for article publication

MEETING GOALS:

•  Get Introductions from Project Analysts
•  Discuss the Project Analysts Role, discuss what Analysts would like to do
•  Schedule Follow-up regular meeting

Minutes

ATTENDEES:
Real Name (Skype Name)

Danny  Housseas (danny-acratus)
Christopher Camp
Jay Myers (jaymmyers)
Niv Singer
Nick Givotovsky
Daniela Barbosa (medanielabarbosa)

MINUTES:

• Introductions:
  • Danny- DataPortability Community Manager
  • Daniela- Co-founder and current chairperson of steering committee.
  • Jay- interested in E-Commerce (works at Best Buy); working onMicroformat hproductdraft proposal; using data to give people the right information based on what they are intterested in producs/suggestions etc. ; interested in working on the message to prove out to business folks that these technologies and standards are good to work towards since they hold the purse strings but we need to speak their language; brings with him a rich knowlege of the ecommerce/retail business and players in the that field
  • Christopher Camp- Law student at UCDAvid; found Dataportability project while working on a research project about reputation metrics. Interested in legal issues around data usage,ownership/privacy. interested in participating in the EULA&Tos Taskforce as well .
  • Niv Singer. Interested in Metrics around data portability.Cofounder of Tracx which collects information for its users from their accounts in various Social Media sites and services. His focus is on Social Interactions and collecting and displaying; might be able to assist in also putting something together for DPP as well (to work with Danny and Chris Saad)
  • Nick Givotovsky-  Independent Interaction Media, Attention Economy, Behaviriol Targetting, Ownerships, copyrights; also involved in Indentity Commons, VRM groups would be interested in working towards making sure all groups are aware (we discussed how some DPP participants are also invovled in those communititie and vice versa), maybe interested in assisting with upcoming RSA preconference event that DPP is involved in; 
• Daniela explained how the role was devised- which was basically because so many people are participants who want to help but we decided to crate individual roles that will then lead to tasks, deliverables etc.
• We discussed the project structure and goverance model (please see our Governance Model), including taskforces and how everyone can participate, and create taskforces (approved by steering)- You can see Existing Taskforces here
• Various attendees brought up the need for creating 'layman' documentation, something we are working on and Danny discussed how he has started a 'Getting Started Guide' that is being developed for that purpose. {Nick Givotovsky volunteered to assist)
• We also discussed looking towards creating a Depository of Words- unified across various groups that are working on data portability issues

Takeaway Tasks:  [attendees please add what you have committed to]

• Meeting minutes [Danny/daniela]
• Review DataPortability Official Blog and Editorial Policy (top of blog) and let Danny/Chris Saad know if you are interested in posting- send a summary of your proposed post [ALL]
• Daniela suggested that those Project Analysts that want to publish and overview of who they are, what their interests in DPP are, and how they plan to contribute along with links etc to their own stuff in the next monthly report should send daniela that information [WHO???]
• Share Upcoming Monthly Report Draft [Daniela]
• Distribution List for Project Analysts- this will be part of the "DataPortability Communications Google Group"- Invite went out but in case you didn't get it, to join please visit: http://groups.google.com/group/dataportabilitycommunications
• We agreed to do biweekly calls at the same time (see below)

Conference call recording, back channel transcript

• Listen: (not available)

Next meetings 

• Wednesday, February 4th , 2008 at 20:00 UTC

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