I am here at day 2 of VloggerCon. (I wrote about day 1 over on identity woman). They opened the day sharing from the stage they ‘really wanted the audience to talk more and to participate‘. I hearing this spontaneously yelled out – “change the format“. This comment was just ignored (what are you going to do with a comment like that – spontaneously change to open space? – I guess not). I hope that next Vloggercon will be in a bigger venue like the Computer History Museum and using Open Space methodology.

They went on to encourage us all to network with one another find the resources we need. It highlights again how much ambient people findability could be improved for conferences. Today is the ‘advanced day’ but yesterday had – “advanced Finalcut pro and iMovie” and today has Node101 for basic skills.

Ambient People Findability…from my post on Meet space technology improvement for etech and other ‘traditional’ conferences

Help me find the people in this stack of 1,300+ folks that I want to meet and talk to. Who has identity problems that I can help people find the resources in our community? Who is working on socially good tech stuff that would love to know about Planetwork? Can applications like attendr and Hallway help? Can we get investment in these open source tools – if you want you can use the something like $10,000 + $10 a head intronetworks (that I get to use it for PCForum.) That is not accessible.

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Paul raises a few interesting questions in his post Eats shrip and Leaves.

Johannes to imply a certain level of skepticism about the motives of Liberty (perhaps IIW as well) for taking this step (or perhaps questioning whether it is indeed unlike Liberty in the first place).

I thought I would put forward my motivations.

My intention is to support the continued opening of the dialog around critical social and technical issues that these emerging technologies bring. I am excited to invite more ‘normal tech folks’ who might apply the stuff we are all working on coming into the dialogue. I grew up in the Northwest – and have lots of friends in working in nonprofit technology and the Web 2.0 scene.

This event is being put on by Liberty and a group of people who are leading participants in the Internet Identity Workshop. It is an open space event. This is not an ‘allignment’ with with Liberty just support for a space that is open to expand the dialogue. I hope we can cooperate with others hosting different events to also put on other similar open space – near their conferences. We are confirmed to support an open space prior to Digital Identity World in September.

I highly doubt that the outcome of the Identity Open Space event will be a converged identity metasystem (even were all the players to attend).

We don’t expect the outcome of this to be a ‘converged identity metasystem’ that would be nieve to assume. I do hope these two days in July can continue to move the dialogue forward. As someone said about their session. We got more feedback on our hour long session then we would have with 5 months on a mailing list and could get to the next version of the spec that much faster.

Feeling over ‘evented?’ If you are not in the northwest please don’t feel obligated to come (even if you are in the northwest don’t – but it would be really nice to see you and how convenient is it to drive to a conference). I hope it can be a useful space for those who want to take advantage of an opportunity close to home.

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I will be going to OSCON this year and presenting about group process on Monday. I am very excited the community is doing a parallel open event. May of the guys who did Recent Changes Camp in February are involved with this one. I was there and they did a great job.

OSCAMP 2006: Free as in Freedom! — Portland July 24-28, 2006 at OSCONPlease join us for OSCAMP 2006, a free (as in freedom) un-conference of, for, and by folks who are part of the Free/Libre/Open movement. You are reading this invitation because someone wants to see you at the bazaar!

A grassroots cooperative effort with O’Reilly, OSCAMP seeks to organize the fringe of activity that has grown up around OSCON during the last several years so that the entire shindig can rock even more! We are coming together to network, write code, have fun and learn about the cool things that are afoot in the movement. Bring your friends and join a good party that’s growing even better!

When: July 24-28, 2006
Where: PortlandOregon at the Oregon Convention Center (part of OSCON 2006)

Format: OpenSpace

Cost: Free … but you can call it “Open” if that’s your thang

Sources of Inspiration:

• Mad props to those who came before us: the free/libre open source software movement, which popularized sharing and attribution
• OpenSpaceTechnology, a way to get the most out of a gathering of people
• FooCamp, the first Camp, an informal but intensive camp-out at O’Reilly
• BarCamp, the mother of the rest of *Camps, invite everyone to share, and leave a trail for others to follow

How it WorksOSCAMP is an “open” space for meeting, for learning, for connecting, for writing code … with no imposed limits or agendas – only the charge to come and learn and contribute as much as you can. The agenda is created and modified “on the fly” by the participants. You can add to the agenda any issue of importance to you. It will be discussed and addressed to the greatest extent possible. All of the key points and next steps will be captured online so that the entire Freedom/Libre/Open community can benefit from our work.

To register, follow the instructions on the Registration page. We don’t know exactly what is going to happen, but we do know that it’s going rock! Come to OSCAMP in Portland … you’ll never be the same!

Warm regards from the CoConveners,
BrandonCsSanders
BartMassey
PhilTomson
EricWilhelm
ScottKveton
DavidMandel
SamKeen

I am super excited I will get to facilitate another unconference event this summer and thrilled that it will be about identity. I am already doing the last day of the Identity Mashup at Havard and MashupCamp in July at the Computer History Museum.

This Identity Open Space is being jointly produced by Liberty Alliance and a group of people who are leading participants in the Internet Identity Workshop. We hope to provide attendees with a highly interactive format in which to explore the topic of user-centric identity. (((This is NOT the next IIW that [http://iiw.windley.com/wiki/Workshop2006b will be in November].)))

The goal of this support a face-to-face space to continue the emerging, ever changing conversation around identity. Not every one can be everywhere. It is our hope that it will provide an opportunity for those in the northwest (Oregon, Washington State, British Columbia) from a variety of fields – socially good techies, Web 2.0 innovators, Identity Gang participants to meet face to face and dialogue.

The wiki is here and registration here.

Topics likely to be discussed at the conference represent the many identity issues experts are working on today including:

* technical standards and specifications,
* use cases for a range of industries
* applying existing or emerging applications or platforms,
* Social and policy issues.
* Your Topics Post on the wiki

There are a lot of amazing minds working to solve the Internet’s ‘identity crisis’, and bringing them together frequently—formally and informally—is helping to drive tremendous progress in a marketplace full of pent-up demand for opportunities with truly empowered *end users* in the driver’s seat. – Brett McDowell, Director Liberty Alliance

Open Space meetings are successful because of the passion, energy and engagement of each and every attendee from the moment they decide to attend through their return to the workplace to implement what they experienced at the event—it’s truly a community-building event that doesn’t end. Building on our proven track record, this event will continue to expand participation in the conversation around the rapidly evolving identity landscape.

Cost: The fee will be $50 less if you are staying at the conference hotel please see the registration page for details.
Registration for Identity Open Space is $150 USD (June 16, 2006).
From June 17, 2006 – July 16, 2006 the price increases to $.
Onsite registration will be available at a fee of $300.

Accessibility is a core value of IIW – please contact me if you want cost is an issue for you.

Social Media:
The Tag for this event broadly is IdentityOS
The Tag for this specific event is IdentityOSVan

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