Re: Gaining WebID Adoption

On 2/9/12 5:57 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> Had a chat with Henry lately and we were wondering about what steps
> would help gain wider adoption.
>
> Of course everyone is doing their little bit, some people working on
> identity providers, some working on apps, some working on the spec,
> some working on integration, some on frameworks, some working on
> outreach.  All of this is really positive in taking the WebID
> ecosystem forward.
>
> Some of us have been doing WebID for quite a while now, and naturally
> we all have a subjective perspective on the best ways to make WebID
> more popular
>
> But maybe we are at the point where we can, as a group, brainstorm
> possible concrete strategies for how WebID can gain wider adoption.
>
> Does any one strategy stand out?
>
>

Give everyone a reason to do the following:

1. Get a WebID
2. Tell their friends and family to do the same.

It's got to be dead simple and non distracting if "going viral" is the 
goal. No RDF religion whatsoever.

Easy win (IMHO) goes back to RWW and the publication and sharing of:

1. Calendars
2. AddressBooks
3. Social Networks -- via profile docs
4. File Sharing.

Remember, we were here two years ago re. SWAT0 and it all stalled as 
everyone seemed to stop performing WebID based ACL demos.

I can already demonstrate all of the above, just as I could 2 years ago :-)

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