Higgins Project Charter

Name
Higgins Project Working Group

Purpose
The primary purpose of this working group is to support the efforts of the Higgins project. Higgins 2.0 is a project to create an open source Personal Data Service (PDS) that let's you control how your personal data is shared with friends and organizations you trust. A PDS is a cloud-based service that works on behalf of you, the individual. It gives you a central point of control for personal information about a you. Things like your interests, contact information, addresses, profiles, affiliations, friends, and so on. A PDS is a place where you establish bi-directional data flows between external businesses and your PDS. Or between your friends' PDS and your PDS.

Principles

 * The Higgins Working Group will function according to the Identity Commons Principles
 * See Purpose And Principles.

Practices
The Higgins project operates under the practices of the Eclipse Foundation. We have a developer mailing list, hold weekly developer calls, and periodic face-to-face meeting. See the Higgins Projectwebsite for more details.

Requirements of Participation and How to Join

 * This working goup is open to anyone working on, using or furthering the adoption of Higgins.
 * See the Eclipse Foundation for information on participation.

Licenses and/or Restrictions on Usage of Work Product

 * The Higgins open source project operates as a project of the Eclipse Foundation.
 * All work is done under the Eclipse Public License (EPL)

Current Deliverables and Milestones

 * Higgins High-level Project Plan

Current Meeting Schedule

 * Higgins has weekly developers calls and holds periodic face-to-face meetings.
 * See the Higgins Project website and developers-list for details.

Current Membership

 * Higgins is an open source project of the Eclipse Foundation. Participation is open to all.
 * Mary Ruddy and Paul Trevithick are the project co-leads.
 * See Higgins team-leaders for more details.

Current Stewards Council Representative and Alternate

 * Mary Ruddy (Eclipse Higgins project, SocialPhysics)
 * Paul Trevithick (Eclipse Higgins project, SocialPhysics)

Current Links

 * Higgins Project

History
Approved by the Stewards Council on February 8, 2008.


 * 2007 Q4 Report Higgins
 * 2008 Q1 Report Higgins
 * 2008 Q2 Report Higgins
 * 2008 Q3 Report Higgins
 * 2008 Q4 Report Higgins
 * 2009 Q1 Report Higgins