ID Story Contest

Here is the text from e-mail communication so far:

Identity Writing Contest Initiators: I've been teaching out of town but I am back this week and would like to move this project along.

Can we do two things this week:

1. Agree on a conference call time - send/me-all your availability

2. Before the call, review an agenda of steps needed to turn on the contest and decide what you can contribute.

Do we have judges? Who?

Any prizes? (consider intangibles if we can't get (or in addition to) a product donation -- private tour? lunch with 'celebrity' ?

Please resend the last draft of the contest announcement and rules

The ImagineAnIdentityFutureWorthBuilding Prize? The AfterIdentity Prize? The MyNextIdentity Prize? The Login Prize? The Third Millenium Identity Prize? The Green Identity Prize? The Kevin Bacon Identity Prize? The Doggie Prize? (on the internet nobody know you're a dog)

from before:

The Identity Prize - The ID Prize - the iddie goes to The Searls Prize - the Doc goes to The Badge Prize - the badger goes to The Digital Me Prize - The My Bits Prize - The Credent Prize - The Authentic Prize The HelloMyNameIs Prize

To do:

- Line up judges and alternates - Write instructions to the judges and the judging agreement - Get prizes: grand prize, most disturbing, most fun, most insightful - Get sponsors - Schedule of dates for submission start, end, judging start, judging ends, and announcement. - Set up web site, blog, wiki, twitter - Cooler name, domain

Questions: *  What's the name of the contest? We need to pick a name which will easily extend to future one-act play, short film, graphic fiction and other contests. *  What's the launch date? June 21st? *  Should we provide a model or two? Who will write them (or contribute things which have already been written?) *  Who will sponsor the competition (and the prizes)? Amazon? Plastic Logic? iPhone? *  Who will be the (3-5) judges? Maybe 2 "celebrity" judges and 3 identity community people? Can we have folks solicit celebrity judges? *  When's the next meeting? *  Do we need a logo? *  Who will design the web presence? *  Do we want to use Blurb to publish a book of the stories? Or maybe just the "top 20" or "top 50"?

Announcement
The Identity Commons Media Review Group and the Futures Group at Identity Commons are soliciting entries for the First Internet Identity Workshop Identity Futures Fiction Contest. 

The purpose of the contest is to stimulate thinking about where identity trends in technology and society might lead us in the coming quarter century, and to present that thinking to the audience of technologists and policymakers working on identity issues today.

Entry is open to anyone (except the organizers and the judges), young or old, who has something to say about where identity is going. Submissions must be received by 21 September 2009; awards will be presented at the Internet Identity Workshop 2009b on 4 November, 2009 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Here are the details:

Please email your submission to identityfuturesfiction2009@??

One submission per author, please.

Submissions should be written in English and should be no shorter than 250 words and no longer than 2,000 words.

Submissions may be in any narrative fiction genre (mystery, horror, sci-fi, mock interoffice memo, mock news story, mock press release, mock product recall notice, mock corporate annual report, mock proposed law, etc...) and should be set after the impending end of the world in the year 2012.

Submissions will be judged based on creativity and on thoughtfulness of identity content.

Submissions should be text files or Adobe Acrobat .pdf files, and should bear a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. Identity Commons and the Internet Identity Workshop may publish winning entries on the Web, and may use entries to promote IIW 2009b and the Identity Futures Fiction Contest.

The winner will receive a ?? (Kindle? Can we haz?  Pleez?). Two ? ("most disturbing? Funniest? Most exciting?") will each receive a ??