IIW evolving + early bird pricing ends this week

Hi Social Web Incubator Group folks,

I am writing to let you all know that IIW is just 4 weeks away  
November 2-4 in Mountain View! http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com

Early bird pricing ends on Thursday October 7th at midnight (http://iiw11.eventbrite.com 
).

We listened to feedback from IIW attendees who missed the space it  
created to innovate and get work done - we agree with you.  Phil  
Windley wrote a post about the shift in September  during IIW-East in  
DC.   http://www.windley.com/archives/2010/09/changes_for_iiw.shtml

We can stand still and serve as a workshop for introducing newbies to  
Internet identity or we can move forward as the conversation shifts to  
the interesting questions that Internet identity brings up. We’re  
choosing the later path. IIW can’t serve both groups effectively and  
ultimately we’re rather be a smaller workshop closer to the “get your  
hands dirty” attitude that has characterized IIW from the start.

With this we have articulated 6 themes for the conference:

The Federated Social Web
The Personal Data Ecosystem (Personal Data Stores, Banks, Exchanges,  
Services)
User-Centric Identity applied (OpenID, OAuth, XRD, SAML, InfoCards,  
etc.)
Vendor Relationship Management
Active Clients (tools in the browser and other clients)
Identity in the Cloud
Personally I have been quiet this summer as my father was ill for 3  
months and then passed away at the end of August. This meant I was  
less engaged in this and other communities then I would have  
otherwise.  I have collaborated with Markus, Joseph and Joe on the  
Personal Data Store Project that just became Project Nori http://www.projectnori.com 
.

This past month I have been working on the Personal Data Ecosystem http://www.personaldataecosystem.org 
   The goal is to bring together the community of projects, companies,  
NGO's and people working on the Personal Data Ecosystem and have  
launched a site to share and coordinate activity in that space.
Wondering what IIW is like - one good place to look is at the notes  
from the sessions  - http://iiw.idcommons.net/Notes_IIW10

You can see who is signed up so far on the registration page - http://iiw11.eventbrite.com

I am off to London today to run our first ever IIW outside of North  
America.

I look forward to seeing many of you at the event.

Regards,

-Kaliya

http://www.identitywoman.net



ps. Apologies for the cross posting it is a hazard when sharing the  
event with communities with significant overlap.