My name is Chris Messina.

I'm an advocate for the open web.

I live in San Francisco and recently checked in to San Francisco, CA.

I'm on the board of the OpenID Foundation, run Citizen Agency and work on the DiSo Project, facilitating the development of the "Open Stack" for the social web^*.

I co-founded the BarCamp and coworking communities.

I maintain a blog, and can be found on Twitter, Flickr, FriendFeed, Brightkite, Mento, Tumblr and Facebook.

Feel free to contact me.

^*(i.e. Activity Streams, microformats, OpenID, OAuth, Portable Contacts, and XRDS-Simple.)