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A message calendar is a memetic engineering tool. It builds ideas in a series over time, pegging broad themes to detailed talking points. By choosing, to a degree, what you want to talk about, you help drive a topic across multiple communication channels and many conversations.

Insert new monthly themes above the previous ones.

contributors: 
Phil Wolff, Brady Brim-DeForest, Elias Bizannes

Values

We value:

• The Future of Data Portability
• What Works
• Human Perspective
• Diversity of Technology
• Evolution and Persistence

Our values need not be spoken aloud, merely influence our themes and talking points

Themes with Talking Points

May 2008: We have a direction

• Doing the Right Thing: the challenge of morals, ethics, and laws
  • There's a lot on the "policy" side that needs discussing and simplifying so ordinary joes can code for it, and talk to users. DataPortability.org can bring people together from different circles and facilitate that conversation
    • See: Data Sharing Workshop
    • See: Data Sharing Summit
    • See: Data Sharing Policy Workshop
• Supporting the Social Software Stack
  • Interoperability is evolving from individual protocols to bundles of protocols working together
  • How many ways can you combine identity consolidation with service discovery, for example?
  • DataPortability.org is encouraging thought and experimentation on architecture and design patterns that build on existing work. We're hoping people see how to combine steel girders and steel cable to make buildings and bridges.
    • See: Blueprints
    • See: Protocol Documentation
• Technology Evangelism and Consumer Marketing
  • Crossing the chasm from pioneers to early adopters takes work and skill. DP.org can add those capabilities to existing technical efforts.
     
  • Technology evangelism:
    • It's a big job.
      • Adoption of social network interoperability tools is tiny. There are more than a million programmers in the United States, maybe 4-to-6 times that worldwide; maybe a thousand who've implemented OpenID.
    • Complexity.
      • There will be hundreds of specs and protocols that enable data portability.
    • A One-Stop-Shop.
      • DataPortability.org can be, and has to earn the right to be, a useful place to learn what's new, what's right for you, and how/where to dig deeper. We are making DP.org a one-stop-shop for everything related to data portability for the IT professional.
    • See: Do It Yourself DataPortability Project
  • Consumer marketing and advocacy.
    • Simplifying.
      • We want to wrap the ideas and technologies that unify our onlives into something simple to grasp, like RSS or CC.
    • Education.
      • DataPortability.org may become a channel for educating and persuading netizens to adopt data portability.
    • See: Logo project

April 2008: Starting Small

• Data portability is a generational change
  • Start now, Keeping the Dream In Mind
• DataPortability Labs
  • Experiments in combining standards
  • Both technical and policy discoveries
  • Learning practices we can apply now
• Do It Yourself DataPortability Club
  • "hack of the month club"
  • Tiny projects, immediate benefit, cumulative value
• DataPortability Friends Project
  • Cultivating working relationships with industry, technology, and thought leaders