by Brian Solis
In February, our friends at DataPortability decided to hold a contest to create a new logo after Red Hat threatened legal action over the organization’s original “suitcase” logo.
Chris Saad let me know yesterday that the new logo and tagline would officially debut today and as of this morning, the content is over. We contributed $100 to the pot, which if you see all that the lucky designer is winning overall, it’s a pretty lucrative prize pool.
DataPortability also released its new tagline, Connect.Control.Share.Remix.
In addition to the new identity package, the organization also released six-month updates.
- DataPortability.org clearly established 2008 as the year of “Data Portability”
- Creating formal networks and informal outreach, such as the DataPortability Video Project and the DataPortability InMotion Podcast Series, which invited people to describe what data portability means to them
- Launched a new “participant democracy” via a democratic, open and radically transparent governance experiment using rough consensus and distributed leadership. To read more and/or participate http://wiki.dataportability.org/display/dpmain/Workflow
- Creation of the DIY (Do It Yourself Data Portability) Club. The first project: ‘Rel=me’ month. To participate http://wiki.dataportability.org/display/dpmain/diy+dp
- Published stubs for the first batch of documents based on discussion in the Technical Action Group Skype Chat, Google Group and Meetups. To read more and/or participate: http://wiki.dataportability.org/display/dpmain/Technical+Specifications\
- Seen the implementation of many open technologies by small and large vendors in the name of ‘Data Portability’ including: Google Contacts API, Microsoft Contacts API, Digg supporting APML, XFN, hCard and RDFa, LinkedIn activity stream RSS, among others
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