DataPortability Project Meetup09 Aug
Thursday, August 12, 6pm
The DataPortability Project is a California not-for-profit that promotes an Internet where people have control over their personal data. We want web sites to make it easy to bring your profiles, contacts, and media to them, to share them with other sites, and to gracefully end your relationship with them. This meetup is for business and technologists to get help building better data portability practices, policies, and tools. We’ll discuss the legal and technology layers and anything else to move from wishful thinking to the standard way of doing things.
From the organizer:
The path to power starts in small rooms where ordinary citizens conspire to change the world.
I’ll bring the cupcakes.
On your agenda:
Getting to know each other,
brainstorming projects to improve data portability in our lives,
existing projects where you can help,
suggestions for better organizing The DataPortability Project,
the future of our meetup,
and everything else you think we should discuss.
I’ll also have a kit you can use to to write a Portability Policy. Slides, letters, plans, etc. We can walk through the kit and I’ll be sure to leave links to the material. By the end of the night you’ll be ready to suggest your organization should draft portability policy.
I’m a volunteer, one of twelve elected directors of the Project, and a contributor to the Portability Policy action group. I hope I can answer most questions you have about the DPP.
