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VRooM Boston 2009

2009-10-11T20:35:50Z

MaryRuddy: /* Dinner on Monday Night */

[[Image:vroomboston2009_small.png|200px|thumb|left]]VRooM Boston 2009 will be hosted by ProjectVRM and the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu Berkman Center] in the John Chipman Gray Room in Pound Hall at [http://law.harvard.edu Harvard Law School], on Monday-Tuesday 12-13 October, 2009. The event will go from 9AM to 5:30 on both days. There will be a no-host dinner on Monday evening.

As with earlier workshops, the purpose is to bring people together and make progress on any number of VRM topics and projects. Most of the workshop will be an "unconference" on the open space model, which means session topics will be chosen by participants. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology Here is the Wikipedia page on open space.]) The one exception will be [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/VRooM_Boston_2009#Panel:_Getting_Personal_With_Data:_How_Users_Get_Control_and_What_They_Do_With_It ''Getting Personal With Data: How Users Get Control and What They Do With It''], described below.

== Registration ==

The workshop is free. You can register through [http://vrmeastcoast2009.eventbrite.com/ this EventBrite link].

== Possible Topics for sessions / discussion ==

(These are just suggestions. The topics can be anything.)

* VRM and Health Care
* VRM hacks, so far
* User-initiated terms of service
* Where Personal informatics / self-tracking aligns with VRM (User control of data.)
* Existing technologies and protocols VRM can use
* [http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Information Sharing Workgroup] (Kantara initiative) (Previously Volunteered Personal Information Workgroup)
* The Mine! Project
* MINT
* VRM and search
* Personal Data Stores
* VRM and open source
* Scanaroo (and turning loyalty cards inside-out)
* ListenLog
* Emancipay
* VRM and Identity (Information Cards, OpenID...)
* VRM and Mobile
* Personal RFPs
* VRM evangelism
* VRM and search
* VRM and Real Estate

== Open Space format ==

In open space workshops, topics are suggested by participants in the Agenda making session, which is attended by everybody. Participants write the title of their topic on a sheet of paper with a bold marker, add their name, then describe the topic to the group and post it on a large "spreadsheet" of times and session locations, which will be posted on the side of the room.

One person in each session will take notes, either directly (or eventually) on the workshop wiki. At the end of each day somebody from each discussion session will report progress to the group. At the end of the second day everybody will discuss progress made and next steps.

== Schedule ==

=== Monday ===

==== Setup and Sessions ====

''''Greetings and VRM overview by Doc Searls''''

''''Suggesting and choosing the day's session topics''''

(Wiki note takers will fill in the sessions below.)

'''''Session 1'''''
* '''A:'''
* '''B:'''
* '''C:'''
* '''D:'''

'''''Session 2'''''
* '''A:'''
* '''B:'''
* '''C:'''
* '''D:'''

'''''Session 3'''''
* '''A:'''
* '''B:'''
* '''C:'''
* '''D:'''

'''''Session 4'''''
* '''A:'''
* '''B:'''
* '''C:'''
* '''D:'''

'''''Session 5'''''
* '''A:'''
* '''B:'''
* '''C:'''
* '''D:'''

''''' Reports from group sessions '''''

==== Dinner on Monday Night ====
Put your name here if you hope to join us Monday night for dinner so we can make reservations. It will be a few blocks from Pound Hall near Harvard Square.

* Doc Searls
* Keith Hopper
* Dean Landsman
* John Eckman
* Mary Ruddy

=== Tuesday ===

==== Panel: Getting Personal With Data: How Users Get Control and What They Do With It ====
[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=self-tracking '''Self-tracking'''] and [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=personal+informatics '''personal informatics'''] are hot [http://www.selftracking.net/ new] new development categories, driven by the growing sense that primary responsibility for gathering personal data, integrating it, and putting it to use, belongs to individuals -- not to companies, governments or other organizations. Together these tools help individuals become both the [http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2007/06/14/vrm-the-user-as-point-of-integration/ ''point of integration''] for their own data, and the ''primary authority'' for what gets done with that data.

''Self-tracking'' is how individuals collect data about themselves, while ''personal informatics'' is how individuals organize that data and put it to use. Together these tools inform individuals' relationships with themselves, with their social networks, with the organizations to which they belong -- and with sellers of all kinds.

Tools for self-tracking and personal informatics are new, already becoming popular, and in need of much thinkig about how personal data is gathered, stored and shared -- concerns that are near and dear to those who follow VRM.

Each panelist is either developing tools in these categories or has experience with new tools and the issues involved. Doc Searls, of the Berkman Center and ProjectVRM, will moderate the panel, and we expect discussion with participants (there will be no "audience" here) to be lively and informative.

==== Moderator ====
'''Doc Searls''' - [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ Berkman Center]

==== Panelists & Their Projects ====
'''Ben Rubin''' - [http://myzeo.com Zeo]

Ben is the co-founder and CTO of Zeo Inc. Zeo has created and recently launched the world's first personal sleep coach.

'''Adriana Lukas''' - [http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project]

'''Tim Hwang''' - [http://www.webecologyproject.org Web Ecology Project]

In addition to the Web Ecology Project, Tim Founded [http://roflcon.org ROFLCon] and [http://awesomefoundation.org The Awesome Foundation], and [http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2171174/ Information Superhighway]. He is working on a book on the mechanics of web culture and memes online.

'''Keith Hopper''' - [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/ListenLog ListenLog]

Keith works on digital product strategy for [http://npr.org NPR]. He is the creator of [http://keithhopper.com/blog/nprbackstory NPRbackstory], was a contributing author for the book [http://www.amazon.com/Collective-Intelligence-Creating-Prosperous-World/dp/097156616X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208206490&sr=8-4 Collective Intelligence], and has done some [http://keithhopper.com/about other fun stuff].

==== Sesions ====

(Wiki note takers will fill in the sessions below. The canonical session outline will be on the wall of the room during the workshop.)

'''''Session 1'''''
* '''A:'''
* '''B:'''
* '''C:'''
* '''D:'''

'''''Session 2'''''
* '''A:'''
* '''B:'''
* '''C:'''
* '''D:'''

'''''Session 3'''''
* '''A:'''
* '''B:'''
* '''C:'''
* '''D:'''

'''''Session 4'''''
* '''A:'''
* '''B:'''
* '''C:'''
* '''D:'''

'''''Research possibilities'''''

ProjectVRM is classifed as a ''research'' project by the Berkman Center, and conducting research of some kind is part of ProjectVRM's charter. So we have a brief session near the end of the day to talk about the possibilities here, based on discussion during the last two days.

''''' Reports from group sessions '''''

''''' Wrap-up and next steps '''''

==Space/Location==

We have a the John Chipman Gray Room in Pound Hall (on the second floor) in Harvard Law School booked for both days. (Among other things, [http://thinkexist.com/quotes/john_chipman_gray/ Gray said], "âIt is a step for further advance to see what has been won from chaos already.") The room is the one over the bike racks on the south side of Pound Hall, which is on Massachusetts Avenue ("Mass Ave") next to the big construction project.

The room will have plenty of chairs and tables for group sessions.

Note: Parking is scarce and expensive in Cambridge. Public Transportation is best.

[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Image:Grayroom.jpg Here is a map] of Harvard Law School, with the John Chipman Gray room highlighted.

== Name ==

The first workshop, also at Harvard, was called just [[VRMWorkshop]], then [[VRM Workshop 2008]]. The second was called [[VRM West Coast Workshop 2009]]. We chose "VRM East Coast Workshop 2009" as a way to stay sort-of in compliance with that poor naming convention. The name "VRooM" was chosen by suggestion from the ProjectVRM mailing list.

The new workshop naming convention will be VRooM (location) (year). Until we come up with something else.

VRM Workshop 2008

2008-07-10T18:01:25Z

MaryRuddy: /* Monday */

The first ProjectVRM Workshop (tag [http://technorati.com/tag/vrm2008 vrm2008]) will be hosted by ProjectVRM and the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu Berkman Center] at Pound Hall at [http://law.harvard.edu Harvard Law School], on Monday-Tuesday 14-15 July. The event will go from 9AM to 5:30 on both days.

The purpose of the workshop is to bring people together and make progress on any number of VRM topics and projects. The workshop will be run as an "unconference" on the open space model, which means session topics will be chosen by participants. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology Here is the Wikipedia page on open space.]

In open space there are no speakers or panels: only facilitation with no agenda beyond helping participants make progress on their topics.

== Registration ==

The workshop is free. You can register through [http://vrmjuly2008workshop.eventbrite.com/ this EventBrite link]. Feel free to also add your name to the [[VRMWorkshop Attendees]] list.

== Proposed Schedule ==

=== Sunday ===
'''Non-hosted Dinner'''
* Location: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&pwst=1&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=changsho+cambridge&spell=1 Changsho Restaurant], on Mass Ave, up the street from Harvard.
* Time: ?
* Attendees (please add your name here if you plan to attend so we can get reservations):
** Keith Hopper
** Iain Henderson
** Doc Searls
** [http://ekive.blogspo.com Mark Scrimshire]
** [http://blog.joeandrieu.com Joe Andrieu]
** Chris Reynolds
** Brett McDowell
** Adriana Lukas
** Stephen Lewis (to be confirmed)
** Mary Ruddy

=== Monday ===

9AM to 5:30PM

After opening remarks, we'll each introduce ourselves to the group. After that we will have short briefings by people working on VRM projects. These briefings are required by the purpose of the workshop: to move VRM projects forward. We plan to keep these briefings under 5 minutes apiece, though some may go a bit longer. There is a lot of parallel work being done already with VRM, not just on specific projects but also in committees and conversations around various hot topics. It is essential that we get to know a few basics about who's doing what before we break off into the workshop discussions.

In open space workshops, topics are suggested by participants in an opening session attended by everybody. Participants write the title of their topic on a sheet of paper with a bold marker, add their name, then describe the topic to the group and post it on a large "spreadsheet" of times and session locations, located on a wall for everybody to see. Once up, these sessions can be combined or moved around as the sheet fills up.

One person in each session will take notes, either directly (or eventually) on the workshop wiki. At the end of each day somebody from each discussion session will report progress to the group.

7:00PM:
'''Non-hosted Dinner'''
* Location: TBD
* Time: TBD
* Attendees (please add your name here if you plan to attend so we can get reservations):
** [http://blog.joeandrieu.com Joe Andrieu]
** Iain Henderson
** Stephen Lewis
** [http://twitter.com/ekivemark Mark Scrimshire]

** Mary Ruddy

=== Tuesday ===

9:00am-9:30am Opening and Agenda Making -- same as in Day 1

9:30am-4:00pm: Sessions

4:00-5:30pm:

Closing - Reports from all discussions, listing of Action Items and community conversation about what is next for various VRM projects

==Space==

We have three classrooms booked. All have a power outlet at every seat, and seating is arranged in a horseshoe shape, so everybody can face everybody else. (We'll also put details here for wi-fi connecting as well. Some advance work is required there.)

If we need additional small session spaces, there are plenty of those out on the lawns and in the halls and public seating areas amongst nearby buildings at the Law School. We'll make room on the session "spreadsheet" for these, so we're ready if the need arises.

As the workshop approaches, we encourage people working on projects to get ahead of the workshop curve by sharing some of their work with the ProjectVRM list and on their own blogs.

== Possible Topics ==

There are many. Here is a list to get us started. Add or subtract whatever you like...

* The Mine! (Adriana Lukas)
* Personal Address Manager (Iain Henderson)
* RelButton -- and first use challenge: a biz model for public media (Doc Searls)
* User-driven Search (Joe Andrieu)
* r-cards (Paul Trevithick)
* VRM and health care
* VRM and social web stuff (Kevin Marks)
* VRM standards, policies and practices (Brett McDowell)
* VRM and TiddlyWiki
* VRM + (rather than vs.) CRM
* VRM and legal openings, hurdles, models and precedents (Renee Lloyd)

== Getting There ==

Pound Hall is located on the Harvard campus at 1563 Massachusetts Avenue, within the Law School. Some resources --

* [http://www.law.harvard.edu/about/contact/images/law_map.jpg Harvard Law map]
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=1563+Massachusetts+Avenue,+02138&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=76.482111,100.898438&ie=UTF8&ll=42.378345,-71.120081&spn=0.009019,0.012317&t=h&z=16 Google Maps]
* [http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Getting_to_and_around_Cambridge Wikimania on Cambridge]

Parking is a hassle, so we highly recommend taking public transportation. Fortunately, the Boston Area has some of the best public transportation in the U.S. The Harvard Campus is adjacent to Harvard Square, which is a stop on the Red Line of the "T", Boston's subway system. The Red Line is the best of all the "T" lines. Trains roll through every stop only few minutes apart, and the trains are fast. If you can find accommodations near a Red Line stop, you'll be in great shape. Cambridge area stops are Alewife, Davis, Porter, Harvard, Central and Kendall. In Boston the near ones are Charles/MGH, Park, Government Center and South Station.

Getting to Pound Hall:

From the Harvard "T" station go up the stairs to "Church Street." At the top of the stairs, turn right to walk across Church (and past the church itself), then up "Mass Ave" past Cambridge Common (which will be on the left). Cross over to the Harvard side of Mass Ave at Waterhouse Street, then turn left to continue north on Mass Ave. The first Harvard building on your right (just before a big construction project) is Pound Hall. Look for us in the center of the ground floor. If you walk fast you can make it in 5 minutes from the "T".

VRM Workshop 2008

2008-07-10T18:00:14Z

MaryRuddy: /* Sunday */

The first ProjectVRM Workshop (tag [http://technorati.com/tag/vrm2008 vrm2008]) will be hosted by ProjectVRM and the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu Berkman Center] at Pound Hall at [http://law.harvard.edu Harvard Law School], on Monday-Tuesday 14-15 July. The event will go from 9AM to 5:30 on both days.

The purpose of the workshop is to bring people together and make progress on any number of VRM topics and projects. The workshop will be run as an "unconference" on the open space model, which means session topics will be chosen by participants. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology Here is the Wikipedia page on open space.]

In open space there are no speakers or panels: only facilitation with no agenda beyond helping participants make progress on their topics.

== Registration ==

The workshop is free. You can register through [http://vrmjuly2008workshop.eventbrite.com/ this EventBrite link]. Feel free to also add your name to the [[VRMWorkshop Attendees]] list.

== Proposed Schedule ==

=== Sunday ===
'''Non-hosted Dinner'''
* Location: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&pwst=1&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=changsho+cambridge&spell=1 Changsho Restaurant], on Mass Ave, up the street from Harvard.
* Time: ?
* Attendees (please add your name here if you plan to attend so we can get reservations):
** Keith Hopper
** Iain Henderson
** Doc Searls
** [http://ekive.blogspo.com Mark Scrimshire]
** [http://blog.joeandrieu.com Joe Andrieu]
** Chris Reynolds
** Brett McDowell
** Adriana Lukas
** Stephen Lewis (to be confirmed)
** Mary Ruddy

=== Monday ===

9AM to 5:30PM

After opening remarks, we'll each introduce ourselves to the group. After that we will have short briefings by people working on VRM projects. These briefings are required by the purpose of the workshop: to move VRM projects forward. We plan to keep these briefings under 5 minutes apiece, though some may go a bit longer. There is a lot of parallel work being done already with VRM, not just on specific projects but also in committees and conversations around various hot topics. It is essential that we get to know a few basics about who's doing what before we break off into the workshop discussions.

In open space workshops, topics are suggested by participants in an opening session attended by everybody. Participants write the title of their topic on a sheet of paper with a bold marker, add their name, then describe the topic to the group and post it on a large "spreadsheet" of times and session locations, located on a wall for everybody to see. Once up, these sessions can be combined or moved around as the sheet fills up.

One person in each session will take notes, either directly (or eventually) on the workshop wiki. At the end of each day somebody from each discussion session will report progress to the group.

7:00PM:
'''Non-hosted Dinner'''
* Location: TBD
* Time: TBD
* Attendees (please add your name here if you plan to attend so we can get reservations):
** [http://blog.joeandrieu.com Joe Andrieu]
** Iain Henderson
** Stephen Lewis
** [http://twitter.com/ekivemark Mark Scrimshire]

=== Tuesday ===

9:00am-9:30am Opening and Agenda Making -- same as in Day 1

9:30am-4:00pm: Sessions

4:00-5:30pm:

Closing - Reports from all discussions, listing of Action Items and community conversation about what is next for various VRM projects

==Space==

We have three classrooms booked. All have a power outlet at every seat, and seating is arranged in a horseshoe shape, so everybody can face everybody else. (We'll also put details here for wi-fi connecting as well. Some advance work is required there.)

If we need additional small session spaces, there are plenty of those out on the lawns and in the halls and public seating areas amongst nearby buildings at the Law School. We'll make room on the session "spreadsheet" for these, so we're ready if the need arises.

As the workshop approaches, we encourage people working on projects to get ahead of the workshop curve by sharing some of their work with the ProjectVRM list and on their own blogs.

== Possible Topics ==

There are many. Here is a list to get us started. Add or subtract whatever you like...

* The Mine! (Adriana Lukas)
* Personal Address Manager (Iain Henderson)
* RelButton -- and first use challenge: a biz model for public media (Doc Searls)
* User-driven Search (Joe Andrieu)
* r-cards (Paul Trevithick)
* VRM and health care
* VRM and social web stuff (Kevin Marks)
* VRM standards, policies and practices (Brett McDowell)
* VRM and TiddlyWiki
* VRM + (rather than vs.) CRM
* VRM and legal openings, hurdles, models and precedents (Renee Lloyd)

== Getting There ==

Pound Hall is located on the Harvard campus at 1563 Massachusetts Avenue, within the Law School. Some resources --

* [http://www.law.harvard.edu/about/contact/images/law_map.jpg Harvard Law map]
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=1563+Massachusetts+Avenue,+02138&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=76.482111,100.898438&ie=UTF8&ll=42.378345,-71.120081&spn=0.009019,0.012317&t=h&z=16 Google Maps]
* [http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Getting_to_and_around_Cambridge Wikimania on Cambridge]

Parking is a hassle, so we highly recommend taking public transportation. Fortunately, the Boston Area has some of the best public transportation in the U.S. The Harvard Campus is adjacent to Harvard Square, which is a stop on the Red Line of the "T", Boston's subway system. The Red Line is the best of all the "T" lines. Trains roll through every stop only few minutes apart, and the trains are fast. If you can find accommodations near a Red Line stop, you'll be in great shape. Cambridge area stops are Alewife, Davis, Porter, Harvard, Central and Kendall. In Boston the near ones are Charles/MGH, Park, Government Center and South Station.

Getting to Pound Hall:

From the Harvard "T" station go up the stairs to "Church Street." At the top of the stairs, turn right to walk across Church (and past the church itself), then up "Mass Ave" past Cambridge Common (which will be on the left). Cross over to the Harvard side of Mass Ave at Waterhouse Street, then turn left to continue north on Mass Ave. The first Harvard building on your right (just before a big construction project) is Pound Hall. Look for us in the center of the ground floor. If you walk fast you can make it in 5 minutes from the "T".

VRM Workshop 2008

2008-06-09T14:47:42Z

MaryRuddy:

The first ProjectVRM Workshop (tag [http://technorati.com/tag/pvrmw2008a pvrmw2008a]) will be hosted by ProjectVRM and the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu Berkman Center], here at [http://harvard.edu Harvard University], on Monday-Tuesday 14-15 July.

We're thinking of calling it "Relacon", in the model of Bloggercon, the first of which was conducted by Dave Winer here at Harvard, in 2003. It was a good model for many unconferences that followed, incluidng the [http://iiw.idcommons.net/index.php/Main_Page IIW -- Internet Identity Workshop], an outstanding and highly productive workshop that has been happening twice a year since Fall 2005. VRM was a big topic at the last one, and perhaps the next one too. This VRM workshop is posed as the first at which the VRM conversation finally breaks off on its own from incubation at the IIWs.

The main purpose of the workshop is to work on development: moving code forward, and bringing existing code together. Also for the various committees to get together in physical space to move their work forward as well.

There won't be a cost to the event, but our budget is minimal, so basically what we'll be doing is making use of a small block Harvard classrooms at a time when school is out of session.

If you can come, please add your name to the attendee list. If working with a wiki is daunting for you (as it is for most people), please send me your name and I'll add it to the list. My email: dsearls AT cyber.law.harvard.edu

- Doc Searls

Attendee List:

[http://doc.searls.com Doc Searls] 
[http://www.mediainfluencer.com Adriana Lukas] 
[http://www.ichoosr.com Bart Stevens] 
[http://xri.net/=charles-andres Charles Andres] 
[http://land-com.net Dean Landsman] 
Iain Henderson 
[http://blog.joeandrieu.com Joe Andrieu] 
[http://xri.net/=jtrentadams/(+about) J. Trent Adams] 
[http://adrian.medcommons.net/ Adrian Gropper] 
[http://www.identitywoman.net Kaliya Hamlin, Identity Woman] 
[http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/ Daniel Jalkut] 
[http://www.socialcustomer.com Christopher Carfi] 
[http://2idi.com/contact/=mary.ruddy Mary Ruddy]

VRM Workshop 2008

2008-06-09T14:45:38Z

MaryRuddy: