Want to work on something with me?

Thanks for the photo, J.D. Lasica!

Hi! I’m Phil Wolff. I want to collaborate on my side projects this year. Won’t you join me?

Here’s my wishlist of projects — apps, research, writing projects, events, or startups — that I make time for. Three themes so far: Internet of Things (#IoT or #IoE), product management (#ProdMgmt), and civic innovation.

I’ll update this list. Ping me if you’ve suggestions or care to chat about it. pwolff at the gmail. @evanwolf on twitter and skype. Or comment here and I’ll follow up in non-public Medium comments or on twitter.

Internet of Things

• Identity. Digital identity for IoT that’s steals the ideas of trust frameworks.
• Finding other devices. Standards for exploring networks, directories to locate other things.
• Service discovery. Ways for a thing to disclose its identity and services or resources it may offer to other things.
• Negotiating cooperation. Schemes for things to share or trade for services and resources.
• Starting groups. Schemes for engrouping things across vendors.
• Trust and distrust. Learning how to assess the reputation of other things.
• Orphans. Public policy about abandoned things, their commitments, their data.
• Anonymity and pseudonymity for things. When should a thing be required to identify itself? Its affiliations with other things? Its history or ownerships?
• Human experience of complex things. Is there a language for helping a swarm of things to talk to people?

Product Management

• Your Product’s Living Will Generator. Help product managers build consensus and make decisions about killing off their product.
• The Product Hospice. Modeling how to retire products gracefully to extract value, manage risk, and preserve goodwill.
• Git Therapy. Counseling for product teams in pain and crisis.
• Open Product Body of Knowledge. Today’s ProdBOK is stale, DRM’d, and charged for by a private corporation. Let’s start an OpenProductBOK.

Civic Innovation

• Campaign finance playing cards. Generating shareable cards/infographics about key money moments in local political elections.
• Campaign finance data explanation. How to turn large volumes of contribution and spending data into narrative that people can understand and stories reporters can publish.
• Oakland Campaign Finance Workshop. 2015Q2 conference and unconference to reflect on what we’ve learned from the 2014 election data. Participants from civic technologists, public ethics commission, academics, watchdogs, campaign managers, candidates, and reform advocates.
• Model privacy policies for city governments. As cities enter the worlds of big data and Internet of Everything, how should they approach privacy for the people who live, work, and study there?