members.digistan.org

Digistan is an organization run by and for volunteers with an interest in specific open standards, or open standards in general.

The organization's mission is to "promote customer choice, vendor competition, and overall growth in the global digital economy through the understanding, development, and adoption of open digital standards".

You will find it interesting to join Digistan if:

• Your business depends on technology. Digistan defends technology users by helping them identify vendor lock-in at all stages in a standardization process.

• You make software that implements open standards. Digistan defines ways to measure how open a standard really is. If you use open standards, you should care.

• You are involved in a standardization process. Digistan helps you promote good practices at all stages in the standardization life-cycle.

• You are involved in standards advocacy. Digistan provides analysis and argumentation that you can rely on to defend open standards in public debate.

• You are involved in standards regulation. Digistan helps regulators by defining tools to differentiate open standards from 'franchise standards'.

• You study IT law, economics or politics. Digistan shows how a community can collaborate to defend important principles such as open standards from vested interests.

• You are a translator interested in standards. Digistan is a global community and we welcome help to translate core materials into many languages.

Extract from the membership policy

Participants

Individuals do not need to join as members in order to participate in Digistan workgroups. Participation from non-members is useful and welcomed.

Individual membership

Formal membership is open to all individuals under the following conditions:

1. Members must support the Digistan mission.
2. Each member must maintain a personal page on the members.digistan.org website.
3. Members must accurately and honestly identify themselves on their personal page, using their legal name.
4. Members are expected to disclose all affiliations and commercial interests that affect their work on standards on their personal page. Failure to disclose may, at the discretion of the board, be grounds for suspension or termination of membership.

Membership of Digistan is free and automatic upon completion of a registration process that will be documented on members.digistan.org.

The organization may suspend and/or ban members who act in ways incompatible with the mission of the organization, or its approved policies, or for breaches of the membership conditions outlined above. Examples of behavior that would be considered unacceptable are:

• Use of the organization's infrastructure for personal gain, for distributing spam, or other activities that are of questionable legality and/or morality.
• Use of artificial identity for the purpose of disguising one's affiliations or interests.
• Use of personal attacks or offensive language to disrupt technical discussions.

The board will make good faith decisions on suspending and/or banning members, who will be given the opportunity to respond openly. Final decisions to suspend and/or ban members will be recorded on the member's home page.

Corporate patronage

Organizations and businesses cannot join Digistan as members, but may join as "patrons", acting as advisers to the board. Patrons have no vote but can participate actively in discussions to represent their commercial interests in standards.

Please read the full policy

Please read the full membership policy before continuing. As a member of this organization you should also make yourself familiar with the other policies of the organization.

You may join as a member by stating your name and purpose via a wiki page. There are no membership fees. This is how it works:

• You need a working internet connection and a modern Javascript-enabled browser that can handle "Web 2.0" sites.

• You need to create an account on Wikidot.com. This takes about 5 minutes and is free. You can do this now if you are not already a Wikidot user.

• You register as a member of this site, members.digistan.org, which takes about 2 minutes. We'll explain how in the next tab. The members.digistan.org site acts as a "container" for all members.

• You create a profile page on this site, which takes about 10 minutes. We'll explain how to do this in the next tab. Your profile page tells others who you are.

1. Join this site

Digistan.org is a collection of microsites, like www, policy, and this one. Each Digistan site has its own set of members, people who may edit wiki pages on that site. This site is the 'container' for Digistan as a whole. By joining or leaving this site you join or leave the organization.

To join the members.digistan.org site, please confirm that you have read and agree with the membership policy by typing "I agree" in the Password field below, and then click apply!:

(If you are already a member of this site you will not see a password box.)

2. Create your profile page

Your profile page tells other members who you are. This transparency lets us work together better. If you find that people write inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading information on their profile pages, you can ask the Digistan board to take action.

Your profile page is a wiki page and entirely under your control - you can add anything you like to it, including links to other sites, your public calendar, RSS feeds, and links to your friends' profile pages.

Please enter your real name (first name and then family name):

Please fill in the profile page, save it, and then come back to read the last tab on this page.

Uninstall procedure

If you have now joined Digistan, welcome! You can leave the organization at any time by resigning as member of this site (members.digistan.org):

1. Go to your profile.
2. Click on 'Sites & membership', and 'Member of' and choose members.digistan.org.
3. Click on 'Sign off'.

Current members

The current members are listed here.

Public discussion list

Public discussions happen on: the public@digistan.org email list. You don't need to be a member to join this list.

The Digistan café

The fastest way to start talking to other Digistan members is to come into the café. Currently we use email: join the cafe@digistan.org email list. The café moderators may ask you to clarify your profile page.

Keep track of new members

We encourage all members to watch this site so that they know who has joined recently. It's a small world and you'll often find that people you know have joined Digistan.

• On the right side of this page you can see the most recent new members.
• This RSS feed provides the same information for RSS readers.

Digistan workgroups

Digistan is organized as a set of workgroups, each providing competence in a certain area, or focusing on a certain set of issues. The workgroups page shows all current workgroups.