This is our User Bill of Rights. We will attempt to integrate these design principles into as much of the Grid.org website as is feasible.

If you have comments or suggestions, don't hesitate to supply them!

Grid.org User Bill of Rights

We believe that users have certain rights when contributing content to any website.

For personal information, users should have:

• Ownership of their own personal information, including:

• Their own profile data
• The list of people they are connected to
• The activity stream of content they create

• Control of whether and how such personal information is shared with others
• Freedom to grant persistent access to their personal information to trusted external sites

Users should be able to:

• Syndicate their own profile data, their friends list, and the data that's shared with them via the service, using a persistent URL or API token and open data formats
• Syndicate their own stream of activity outside the site
• Link from their profile pages to external identifiers in a public way
• Discover who else they know is also on the site, using the same external identifiers made available for lookup within the service.

Regarding user-contributed content such as posts, images, comments, or code... Users should at any time be able to:

• Make copies of any content they have contributed
• Retain rights to use that content in any way they see fit, including commercial use

Current Implementation

Grid.org is in the process of rebuilding the site to implement features that will enable many of these concepts. Please help us by contributing to the effort!

Anticipated Features/Support/Implementation

• RSS feeds available for tag-based searches of site
• User personal profiles may include data pulled from external RSS feed
• RSS feeds from personal profiles available for posting elsewhere
• Open ID
  • Open ID: portable identities
  • Oauth: secure API authentication
• Other open standards
  • Perhaps some variant of Open Social?