June 13 2007 Meeting notes
Conference Call Notes
Drafted by Joe Andrieu, June 13, 2007
IRC
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Prior Conference Calls
May 23, 2007
May 16, 2007
May 9, 2007
May 2, 2007
March 21, 2007
March 8, 2007
- meeting notes 2007 03 08
- no audio
February 21, 2007
- no meeting notes
- audio 2007 02 21
February 8, 2007
Attendees
- Joe Andrieu
- Dean Landsman
- Doc Searls
- Chris Carfi
- Sean Ammirati
- Alan Mitchell
Notes
WordPress
Any WP hackers out there? We'd like to get some things set up with the VRM blog, but it seems to be a bit challenging.
Sxipper
Good review from Dean Landsman. Fluid and open, yet gives me control at the level I want. Most of the time. There are a few spots where it advances through where I didn't want to, but generally pretty good. Sxip comes out of the Identity community and, in some ways, are basically and interface between user-centric identity and legacy identity, which means password management. They are VRM-y, so check them out and give some feedback.
SuperNova
An unconference VRM workshop will be collocated at the SuperNova conference. Good news is that it will likely attract some new people. We probably won't have to do much--the beauty of the unconference/Open Space format. Date: Tuesday the 19th. Wiki: http://www.socialtext.net/sn-openspace/index.cgi?supernova_2007_open_space
London Report & Events
Last week, we had a meeting with JP Ragaswami, Adriana, Iain Henderson and...
Out of that came the desire to host several workshops focused on particular use cases in VRM.
Health Care
J&J and Revolution Health Care (where Doc's son and Steve Case, formerly of AOL, now work). Both companies are interested in having more conversations, as they are both focused on user-centric approaches to medical care.
In Doc's latest health care experience at Berkman. He got great service thanks to the Harvard system, but as his data travelled with him from the clinic to Mass General, every single data contact had errors: spelling his name wrong, something.
Dean describes that he gets super spammed for diabetic products and services.
Alan asks how do we start to tackle some of the boundary issues about how different jurisdictions and organizations fit into a viable center.
Talking with Ray Jordon at J&J, he went straight to the hardest problem of all: putting control in the hands of the customer as the goal. Rather than look at all of the insurance problems and the legal framework problems and the morass that "solving health care" has always been... just start with that would be good for the patient to have. What do we want a patient to have as they walk into ER or the doctor's office or the blood bank. If we are going to store this data, where should it live?
So, start with the user. Start with the patient. And go from there. Even if it isn't technically possible, lets map out the goals.
Infrastructure
Building access infrastructure from the edge in.
=VRM in General
We are getting to the size where we can hold our own event.
User-Centric and Unconference VRM Workshops
We want to make this different in two ways:
- Unconference format
- Keeping the focus on user-centric solutions rather than vendor-centric approaches. If we take care of the individuals in a way that is productive for vendors, we will also address vendors needs by the time we build out the system.
Evangelism Corner
Dean's been getting good results describing VRM by explaining how you are in control of what information you give out and how it is used. Controlling access and limiting data mining. Control over how much of your identity that you give out.
Status
| what | who | when | status |
| ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- |
| open id on wiki | david | no date | |
| static website development | doc, dean, joe, chris | no date | |
| group blog/RSS to wiki (venus) | doc | no date | up, talk to doc if you want to author |
| project VRM definition | doc | 1 week | still working on it |
| brainstorm Initiatives | all | ongoing |
Action Items
| what | who | when | status |