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

[Jon Lebkowsky < >]

I should instigate a QS/PDS conversation within the Society for Participatory 
Medicine; it's a good fit, might bring in some adherents closer to the 
healthcare field, which needs disruptive innovation.

Jon Lebkowsky
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On May 28, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Mary Hodder 
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> Hi Iain,
> 
> Yes.. totally agree about raising awareness about a Personal Data model.. 
> i'm in a session as we speak about Personal APIs and
> they've started it off with a model of silos (eeek) and so i'm trying to 
> introduce the PDS as the repository for my data.. and
> then apps that sit on top that mess around with my data that i invite in 
> and control..
> 
> i'm also taking notes and trying to raise awareness generally..
> 
> i've proposed a session to the organizers today about personal data.. 
> hoping to lead that later today.
> 
> mary
> 
> On May 28, 2011, at 8:12 AM, Iain Henderson wrote:
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>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> On 24 May 2011, at 19:51, Mary Hodder wrote:
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>>> 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 
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>>>>  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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