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Kaliya announces that she is helping to unconference an Identity Open Space in Vancouver in July (aka IOSVan):

I am excited there will be open space identity event in the northwest that will provide an opportunity for Identity Gang participants in the region along with the Web 2.0 development community and the social good techies there to come together with Liberty Alliance participants and broaden the dialogue around the technical and social issues surrounding user-centric identitiy. This is NOT the next IIW that will be in November.

The Identity Open Space is being jointly produced by the Internet Identity Workshop and Liberty Alliance July 20-21 in Vancouver Canada.

I'm:

• excited that this is taking place in Vancouver -- thanks to the Liberty Alliance and local Sun representative Lauren Wood
• happy that Kaliya is being unconference woman and will undoubtly do a good job
• signed up already
• might not be able to go because I've had an unexpected trip to Germany come up...doh! I'll update this as I figure out my travel

So, if you want to get plugged into the Identity community and learn about the tangled web of protocols, specifications, and standards, go register. See the wiki for more information.

[cross posted to my Bryght blog]

Interested in social networking and all things identity? The Liberty Alliance is having a webcast on the ID-WSF People Service (I can't believe that that has a TM after it...kind of illustrates the icky feeling people have towards Liberty stuff...) -- 8AM PST, January 11, 2006, ID-WSF 2.0’s People Service: Federated Social Identity, presented by Paul Madsen:

The Liberty ID-WSF People Service™, a key component in ID-WSF 2.0, is the industry’s first comprehensive platform for managing social information within an open federated network environment. People Service allows consumers and enterprise users to manage social applications such as bookmarks, blogging, calendars, photo sharing and instant messaging from a common layer within the ID-WSF 2.0 framework. Liberty People Service has been developed to allow individuals to easily store, maintain, and categorize online relationships so that other socially-aware Web services applications can leverage information based on the consent and privacy controls established by a user in the federated social network. With Liberty Alliance People Service, consumers and enterprise users can now centrally manage all of their online social relationships using a federated network approach with privacy controls built into the system allowing users to leverage the privacy functionality of Liberty Web Services to more easily and securely share social and enterprise information across applications, platforms and service providers. In this Web cast, we’ll overview the functionality of People Service and provide some use case examples. You won’t want to miss this highly informative session.

Lauren gave me a heads up on this, and checked with the organizers: there are over 60 people signed up already, and the organizers will make more slots available if it gets "full"...but you need to RSVP soonish to make sure.