Welcome to the Club!

We started as the DataPortability Hack of the Month Club.

Our Charter

Our charter:

• Promote a series of DIY technology projects supporting data portability today
  In a way that:
• Requires minimal effort, perhaps less than one person day to implement
• Produces immediate benefit for the implementer
• Introduces a best practice without overwhelming budgets or staff
• DataPortability.dev supports with a prepared mini-cluster of wiki/mailing list/irc for supporting the developer
• DataPortability.ev supports with a prepared mini-business case
• Lists and acknowledges participants
  So that:
• DataPortability.org promotes existing technologies (fulfilling its mission)
• DataPortability.org demonstrates technology leadership
• DataPortability.org makes the point that dp need not be a big bang or boil-the-ocean effort
• DataPortability.org attracts technologists and developers into its community

Our DIY DP Blog

Thursday, May 1, 2008

DataPortability DIY - "rel=me" Project

Labels: project, diy, news

The DataPortability DIY Club light up the first monthly project for May: "rel=me"

Join the fun!

Posted at May 01, 2008 by J. Trent Adams | 0 comments

Friday, April 25, 2008

Instructables as partner?

Labels: steering, evangelism, diydp

I'm looking at Instructables.com as one of the delivery and community deliverables of DIYDP.

We'll create a group for DIY Data Portability.

For each monthly project, five instructables go into the group:

1. What is this months' project?
2. How to explain this to your boss in 4 minutes
3. Planning your project
4. Doing your project
5. How to brag about your project

We'll embed what we can/should into the DIYDP wiki but much/most of this interaction will be on the Instructables site.

Principal contact: Christy Canida, community and marketing manager, 510-931-5622, canida aht instructables dott com

Posted at Apr 25, 2008 by Phil Wolff | 0 comments

Things to do for the club

• membership form and autoresponder
• membership card
• monthly news design
• three mailing lists:
  • announce-only,
  • support and
  • discussion
• tech support IRC

DIY Project of the Month

• May: Support for the "rel=me" microformat

Things to do for the first club project

• Join the DIY DP Skype chat room for volunteers
• Get news on the DIY DP Announcements mailing list
• Support implementors on the DIY DP Support mailing list