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What is the cost?
The Data Sharing Events have modest fees. You can buy a ticket for both the Workshop and Summit, just the Workshop or any one day. Please check the registration page for a detailed breakdown of the different ticket type costs.
Who are the Organizers?
Kaliya Hamlin volunteered to help facilitate the first Data Sharing Summit in September 2007 instigated by Marc Canter in July 2007. The upcoming Data Sharing Workshop and Summit are being produced by Kaliya Hamlin and Laurie Rae.
Marc Canter is in the advisory group along with:
- David Recordon, Six Apart
- Joseph Smar, Plaxo
- Chris Saad, Faraday Media
- Mary Hodder, Dabble
- John Richards, Microsoft
- Luke Sontag, Vidoop
- Kevin Marks, Google
We are collaborating with the people participating in dataportability.org.
The advisory group will help that help shape the design of the event. As with previous events in this field 85% of the time will be spent in open space - the unconference format where attendees create the agenda in real time.
Why not Free?
Events cost money to produce both because it costs money to feed people but also in people time to help organize 100-500 folks so that there is a great container to get work done. Enormous value is created and paying something to come helps create a ‘contract’ between the attendees and the organizers.
Events with free sign up can cause havoc for organizers because of the up-to-75%-no-show rate. We have chosen a model where half the costs are covered by attendee entrance fee’s and half is paid for by sponsorships.
We like to think they provide ten times the value for one tenth the cost of traditional conferences.
What are some of the emerging Data Sharing Initiatives?
Some emerging initiatives include:
- The finalization of the OpenID2 spec
- Emerging Open Social and other social graph API's
- The 1.0 release of the Higgins Framework
- dataportability.org
- Social Networking Portability
- FOAF and XFN gaining traction as standards
- DiSO
- MT activity feeds, etc.
Why an (un)conference?
Since October 2005, (un)conference formats have been used at the Internet Identity Workshop a semi-annual event focusing on emerging open standards in user-centric identity. Since then, IIW has received considerable praise for achieving real results and has contributed significantly to the incredible progress of emerging user-centric identity standards, such as OpenID.
Based on the success of IIW, we have decided to use a similar model for the Data Sharing Workshops and Summits.
