Identity Meeting, Monday Morning, San Francisco

If you're a developer, and interested in finding out more (or contributing to) about what's happening with Identity right now — or if you're headed to town for the Syndicate conference and want to spend a productive morning before the Syndicate tutorials start, consider joining us for... (here's the email that's already gone out)...

The Internet Identity Workshop presents an Informational Morning for Developers 

Hosted by Doc Searls, Mary Hodder and Kaliya (Identity Woman)

Monday, December 12, 2005 9-12 noon, with lunch from 12-1

Canton Dim Sum 655 Folsom, San Francisco (close to Moscone)

Cost $20 for lunch (PLEASE RSVP HERE)

Canton Restaurant has been kind enough to give us the space if we all have lunch there, but we need an accurate count by Sunday at noon.

If you are a developer working on a application that has folks login - this is a morning for you.

Doc will open with an overview of the identity landscape, including larger topics like the Identity Metasystem. He and others will address the question:

Why do identity systems matter when building new systems and tools?

We are bringing together a spectrum of folks who have been working on developing identity systems and tools. Identity Developers will share their work, basics and best practices to date to get started exploring integrating identity into these applications. These should include (but not be limited to) YADIS, LID, OpenID, i-names/XRI and Sxip and InfoCard, among others.

Developers of applications who have included identity into their services and tools will share briefly how they've done it. Application developers will hear from and meet with identity developers to ask questions.

This is about user-centered identity, which those of us in the conversation variously call "independent identity", "Identity 2.0", the "Identity MetaSystem" and so on. This isn't about big companies sharing data about customers held captive in CRMs. It's about building applications and services around independent users and companies in a networked marketplace.

Hope to see ya there.

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