Quarterly Plenary meeting

[Elias Bizannes]

FROM: Elias Bizannes, DataPortability Project vice-chair,
TO: DataPortability Project Members and Supporters
RE: Quarterly Plenary Meeting

As per our 2009 strategic goals[1], the Steering Group of the DataPortability Project will be hosting quarterly plenary meetings to engage the community more with what we are doing. The plenary is an important part of the DataPortability Project's governance framework, which among other things, elects the Steering Group and holds it accountable.

All members of the plenary are invited to this meeting, where the Steering Group can explain how we are tracking against the goals and question Steering members on the DataPortability Project's future direction and the relevance of work being performed. It also is an opportunity for the community to make binding decisions on behalf of the Project, despite being removed from the day to day operation of it. As with all DataPortability Project meetings, this is open to anyone to participate.

The meeting will take the place of the normally scheduled weekly Steering meeting, which will be the last day of March. Refer to the meeting page[2] for details about your region, and feel free to add an agenda item.

To be a member of the plenary, all you need to do is "opt-in" into the vote mailing list.[3], by stating your intention to be a member.

I've cc'd this announcement to the VRM Project, Open Web Foundation and the IDTBD list of which I am personally a subscriber to. I am doing this as they are three groups with overlapping concerns who may be interested in our work.

Any questions, don't hesitate to contact me.

Regards,
Elias


[1] http://wiki.dataportability.org/x/EgBg
[2] http://wiki.dataportability.org/x/SgBZ
[3] http://groups.google.com/group/dataportability-vote

[danielabarbosa]

This is a reminder of the upcoming Quarterly Plenary Meeting [please
review Elias original announcement note above]

**AGENDA**:
Current Agenda: http://wiki.dataportability.org/x/SgBZ
Feel Free to add items

**WHEN**: Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 at 20:00 - 21:00 UTC
* San Francisco: 1pm
* Boston: 4pm
* London: 9pm
* Berlin: 10pm
* Sydney: 7am (April 1st)
* Time Zone Chart:
http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=3&day=31&year=...

**WHERE**. Please see Agenda Page for Dial-In Information
http://wiki.dataportability.org/x/SgBZ

**WHO**. .

All members of the plenary are invited to this meeting, where the
Steering Group can explain how we are tracking against the goals and
question Steering members on the DataPortability Project's future
direction and the relevance of work being performed. It also is an
opportunity for the community to make binding decisions on behalf of
the Project, despite being removed from the day to day operation of
it.

As with all DataPortability Project meetings, this is open to anyone

regards of Project status to participate. The DataPortability Project
is keeping to being a community driven organization, and although we
don't charge membership fees, we require people to "opt into"
membership so we simply have a measurable way of determining people
that wish to identify themselves as part of the Plenary.

Not a member of the plenary but want to be? To be a member of the
plenary, all you need to do is "opt-in" into the vote mailing list by
stating your intention to be a member here: http://groups.google.com/group/dataportability-vote

'see' you on Tuesday!
~daniela

Daniela Barbosa
DataPortability Co-founder and Chairperson

http://www.danielabarbosa.com
www.dataportability.org

[Christian Scholz / Tao Takashi (SL)]

Hi!

The link for the timetable seems to be broken, here is the correct one:

http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=31&month=3&year=2009&hour=20&min=0&sec=0&p1=0

-- Christian

--
Christian Scholz
http://mrtopf.de/blog

New Podcast: http://datawithoutborders.net

[Elias Bizannes]

I've written a blog post for tomorows Plenary meeting.

The DataPortability Project, in case you didn't notice, reorganised
itself half way through last year (phase 1: workgroup that no one knew
about: phase 2: anarchy! phase 3: the now)

We've purposely been keeping a low profile to get our house in order,
but now we are re-emerging. Here is an update to have you realise that
we';ve been busy, and are excited as we kick into gear this year.

http://tr.im/i0B5

Now's the time to start putting you hand up again if you want to get
involved - sorry to those in the last nine months who have shown
passion but we simply didn't have anything to match you up with to
work on what we are all passionate about. Attend the plenary meeting
and we will tell you how.

[danielabarbosa]

For those of you who are visual like me. I have embedded a slideck
into the wiki agenda page:
http://wiki.dataportability.org/x/SgBZ

Can also be seen directly here: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?docid=dc528ndv_95fxb9q2d9&hl=en

Call starts in 15minutes- see you there!~