Identity Gang Meeting Agenda

Identity Gang Meeting: May 9th 1-5pm, "Pacific A" room at Hyatt Regency Embarcadero

The email traffic indicated a desire for an agenda for Monday - The best way to get an agenda is to start drafting one - please jump in with your suggestions...

AGENDA:

  • Greetings: Go around the room or updates about what each person and organization in the gang is doing. (Brief statements from each.)
  • Identity Metasystem Update: Review and discuss Microsoft's announcement(s) 
    • Continue from last Monday's meeting/conf call. (Kim might want to bring his presentation. Doc will bring along a projector.)
    • Review the principles behind the Identity Metasystem and infocards, and how they support (and are supported by) efforts by other parties.
  • Update on other efforts: List and discuss any other announcements and developments of interest to the group.
  • Update on shared principles: Review Kim's Laws, Fen's Laws, Drummond's Corollaries and so on. (The list seems to be growing here.) Note: This may be where we address Johannes' concern (see Ideas, below.)
  • Discuss mutual support. Questions: 
    • How do we work together?
    • Where is the common ground, perspectives, etc.?
    • How do we evalute WS-Trust, WS-Metadata?
    • How do we evangelize the Identity Metasystem? (Keys: 1) giving Kim and Microsoft due credit without attracting "Passport II" responses; and 2) 
    • How do we include ongoing and new open source and open standards efforts in this area? (Let's put some lists together.)
  • Naming: What are we called? We need to nail this down before the show starts.
     
  • Discuss objectives for DIDW. Questions:
    • Do we want the Gang to be known as a gang?
    • Do we want to open the Gang to, say, a BOF?
    • What are the parties at DIDW? (and will they conflict with a BOF if we have one?)
  • Membership. Questions:
    • Who else should be included in the Gang? How do we separate the leaders from the followers? (This matters as we start holding larger meetings and events.)
    • How should we as a group interact with the corporate/enterprise folks (Novell, IBM, etc.)?
  • Conference. There was agreement in the Friday call that we should have our own conference (modeled on BloggerCon). Discuss and schedule. Note: June 4-5 in Seattle was suggested. Doc can't make that weekend, and Phil says he'd rather not meet on weekends at all.
  • Schedule. Questions:
    • When/where will the next meetings and calls happen?
    • What conferences (other than our own) do we want to address (volunteering ourselves as speakers and panelists, etc.)? Supernova, Catalyst andOSCON are the main three, coming up.

 

Idea

  • Johannes: I'm coming the first time, so I will defer to the "old-timers". In terms of ideas, I'd be very much interested in discussing how we can grow the actual (as opposed to the "theoretically everybody") market for these types of technologies. Specifically how we can explain to the average person how it is going to make their life 10x better, which, from my perspective has not happened yet, so this topic can move from the backrooms to the front burner ...

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