Re: [projectvrm] Quantified Self conference in SF this weekend

[Iain Henderson < >]

Hi Mary,

I was going to attend, but over-dosed on travel in May, so sold the ticket.

As per Adriana's notes, there is a strong QS group in London, that is fully 
up to speed on the data implications of self-hacking.

The point I was going to raise/ present on if i'd made it along was obviously 
the notion of the personal data service as ultimately the repository from 
where QS/ self-hacking will best be done, because that allows the combination 
of metrics, and the atomic level data to be held across each. Indeed given 
the pretty open nature of most of the QS tools, getting that data into a PDS 
is pretty easy.

Let me know if there is any interest in the PDS concept at the event, and 
perhaps we can get into those synergies via PDEC afterwards.

Cheers

Iain





On 24 May 2011, at 19:51, Mary Hodder wrote:

> Yes.. sold out about 3 months ago or so.
> 
> Crazy.. Kaliya and I are going .. saturday and sunday.
> 
> Yes.. there are overlaps though my impression of the organizers is they are 
> very into the success of their own thing..
> we invited them to IIW, Personal Data 2.0 and other things.. and they seem 
> to have no interest and don't even
> want to talk about overlaps.  (This seems to apply to the newer younger 
> folks without much SV experience -- less
> than one cycle .. not the older folks who've been around for multiple 
> cycles.. but its the younger folks who are 
> organizing QS this weekend)
> 
> So if folks here know people in the community to talk with about how we see 
> overlaps on both sides (not just VRM
> and PDE side looking toward QS but also to get QS folks looking toward VRM 
> and PDE) that would be most helpful.
> 
> Thanks,
> mary
> 
> On May 24, 2011, at 11:42 AM, Dan Miller wrote:
> 
>> Yikes!
>> 
>> Hadn't seen this and, alas, now it is sold out.
>> 
>> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Doc Searls 
>> <
 >
>>  wrote:
>> There are huge synergies and overlaps between VRM and Quantified Self 
>> (self-tracking, personal informatics) interests, technologies, missions, 
>> and communities. If I were on The Coast, I'd do my best to make the QS 
>> conference this weekend in Silicon Valley. Hope some of ya'll can get 
>> there. Here's the link:
>> 
>> http://quantifiedself.com/conference/
>> 
>> Like IIW, it's at the Computer History Museum.
>> 
>> Doc
>> 
> 


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