Hi All: If we are to do the press conference on the 28th, you have to give a go by the end of your Thursday, this week.
Hopefully, you would :-) Please contact me at any time if you need. I will try to be online on Skype as well: nat_sakimura is my skype id. Also, I am including our press guy, Mr. Uchiyama, in the distributin list. Regards, Nat Drummond Reed wrote: > +1. This model should scale well. > > > > =Drummond > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Mike Jones > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:52 AM > *To:* [email protected]; Nat Sakimura > *Cc:* Ishikawa, Kazuya; Kentaro Sakamoto; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Bill > Washburn; Nobuhiro Seki > *Subject:* Re: [OpenID board] OpenID Foundation and Japan > > > > I'll also endorse the local chapters idea, as that has worked well for > USENIX's SAGE class of members, for instance. I would oppose creating > separate legal entities for chapters for a lot of the reasons already > stated in this thread, but it sounds like the consensus is already to go > with a chapters model, with all the members worldwide being members of OIDF. > > > > From experience, I'll say too that the value a local chapters is almost > directly proportional to the energy that the chapter coordinator(s) put > into it. So the key thing is to find people with drive, organizational > skills, and time to make these happen. > > > > Cheers, > > -- Mike > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Bill Washburn > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:58 AM > *To:* Nat Sakimura; [email protected] > *Cc:* Ishikawa, Kazuya; Kentaro Sakamoto; Nobuhiro Seki; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Bill Washburn > *Subject:* Re: [OpenID board] OpenID Foundation and Japan > > > > Hi Nat, > > Thanks for this report. An excellent beginning, it seems clear. I > realize that very likely we might do well to start considering a few > regional chapters in North America this year: > Silicon Valley/San Francisco Bay Area, > Portland/Seattle/Vancouver, > Oklahoma/Texas > Boston/New York/Washington, D.C. > ??? > > okay, it's getting late... > > cheers, > -bill > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Nat Sakimura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; Bill Washburn > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Kentaro Sakamoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Krall, Gary" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > "Ishikawa, Kazuya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Nobuhiro Seki > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 9:36:10 PM > Subject: Re: [OpenID board] OpenID Foundation and Japan > > All- > > We had a very productive meeting this morning in Tokyo, with Seki-san of > SixApart, Sakamoto-san and Ishikawa-san of Verisign Japan and myself > (from Nomura Research Institute, and XDI.ORG <http://XDI.ORG>). > > Among other things, here are our concensus: > > 1. Japanese organization should start as the Japan Chapter of OpenID > Foundation. > (i.e., no legal entity but a virtual chapter of OIDF as Seki-san > suggested in > the previous mail.). Thus, to join Japan Chapter, it has to be a > member of > OIDF, thus policies around IPR, trademark, membership, etc would also > apply to > them. > > Its primary purpose includes: > - Promotion of OpenID in Japan through: > - Preparation of Japanese translation of the SPECs. > - Preparation of Introductory Materials to End users explaining > - How to use OpenID > - Why using OpenID is good. > - Establishing working groups to discuss issues including > Japanese specific ones. > - Press Relations > - Feedback to OpenID Foundation on the findings and requests from > Japanese market. > > 2. We should target at annoucing it on Feb.28, when David comes to Japan. > Outline of the proposed announcement is being prepared right now. > > 3. For this to happen, obviously, we need OpenID Foundation's endorsment. > Also, OIDF's assistance to encourage Japanese entities of those > Corporate Board > comapnies to join Japan Chapter is sought. > > 4. In pararell to 3. , we start recruiting the Japanese members. > > Bill, if the boards are ok with these, could you kindly follow up > especially with > item 3. above, please? > > Regards, > > -- > Nat Sakimura (=nat) > http://www.sakimura.org/en/ > > > _______________________________________________ board mailing list [email protected] http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board
