It certainly snuck up on us, but the next Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) is right around the corner, next week in fact. Taking place at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, the semi-annual gathering will include panels and presentations dealing with developing, using, and maintaining user-centric identities on the web — and of course Vidoop will be on hand soaking up all the grass roots workshop has to offer while spreading the word on what Vidoop is all about.

The event is planned to take place from December 3-5, and is designed for groups to meet and discuss identity-related issues, with introductory and general information sessions the opening day being followed by more in-depth sessions on the social, technical, and legal issues surrounding online user identity.

IIW is organized by a number of folks with their fingers on the pulse of the internet’s identity layer, including freelance open standards evangelist Kaliya Hamlin, Cluetrain Manifesto author and Linux Journal editor Doc Searls, and professor and author of Digital Identity Phil Windley. The gathering looks to be an exciting opportunity for those of us with a vested interest in identity, be it through the developments within OpenID 2.0 or other advancements, and we look forward to speaking to those of you planning on attending. And for those unable to make the trek, look for us to post some of our thoughts from the show here.