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....

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....

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)....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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

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

DataPortability.org volunteers embrace these challenges with small projects. Read more about the DataPortability.org direction talking points on our monthly message calendar....

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

Join the fun!

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,...

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

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!

The Contest:

On February 22, 2008, the DataPortability Project launched a contest to find a new logo. Over the following month, we received over 400 submissions from the community. After three grueling weeks, working with our panel of expert judges, we paired down the entries to 15 finalists. Out of these finalists, we are asking you, the community,...

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 for address information as well as rideshares.

Come to the Evangelism ConfCall Apr-10-2008. If you dare.