Community Outreach and Development Plan

The Community Outreach and Development Plan is an ongoing list of things that could be done to evangelize the IdCommons goals and to build the IdCommons community and brand.

This wiki page is a place to collect and prioritize activites in this area. Some of these items will trigger inputs to the budget.

There is a growing sense that there are too many internet identity organizations - we need to let the world know that IdCommons is pulling them together and facilitating coordination.

Events where IdCommons should have a presence Because Identity Commons people are already attending and we need to support them
 * 2008
 * IIW 2008a
 * DataSharing Summit
 * DataSharing Workshops
 * Catalyst
 * OSCON ?
 * Appropriate Liberty events
 * DIDW
 * IIW 2008b
 * Concordia mtgs
 * VRM mtgs
 * ITU-T meetings


 * 2009
 * EIC 2009
 * That DC event Drummond and Tony spoke at

Events where IdCommons should have a presence Because we need to do outreach
 * Datalinking summit in New York
 * Semantic web events
 * i-Commons events
 * WCC events (Tom is only connection)
 * Harvard events
 * Standford events

Programs
 * Newbees orientation -
 * Regular call
 * Orientation materials
 * Working Groups
 * New Working group Kit - for formation/joining - support orientation for new groups -this is key to avoid fragmentation of and duplication of effort
 * Mentor program
 * Brand outreach - Getting working groups to consistently use the IdCommons name/logo in their marketing materials and press

Brand Building Tools
 * Handouts for events
 * Banners for events

 Analyst outreach
 * Burton Group - keep informed
 * Gartner - educate
 * Forrester - educate

Other outreach
 * Doc
 * Rene
 * Goverments
 * i-Commons
 * ITU-T
 * Esther
 * Susan Crawford