I don't see any advantage to the coupling of hiring an ED and bringing
on new board members. Any ED is going to look at the risk of getting
paid. Bringing in money before hand is a good sign. In the current
economic climate, making a donation to a Foundation is going to come
under increased scrutiny.
The bylaws allow the board to appoint temporary community board
members as need be -- something we would want to do in case someone
needs to resign for some reason.
Only bringing on corporate members one at elections does not serve us
well. We have a product, which is membership, and we should remove
barriers to selling it rather then raising it -- and requiring the
timing to coincide with an election does not serve anyone well --
except those that want to make board membership exclusive.
We have been working on having elections since last March.
As noted in my financial report, not bringing these corporate members
on board was a bad financial decision.
-- Dick
On 24-Oct-08, at 6:49 PM, DeWitt Clinton wrote:
Sort of. I think we should have finished the discussion about how
to proceed with a full five new corporate board members, timed that
around the hiring of the new ED, and ideally scheduled all of it
around the election of new community members. With those three
pieces in place we then could make a coordinated engagement on all
three. Four pieces, in fact, as we can count the CRC in there as
well.
I share your frustration, Dick, and I agree that sometimes a vote
makes a good forcing function. It's taken far too long to get where
we are, and I happen to concur that those were fine nominees. And I
especially welcome Brian's continued leadership in any case.
Hopefully this is the kick in the pants we need to close in
expediently on the missing pieces. And then I'd welcome seeing this
come up for a vote again in the near future.
Cheers,
-DeWitt
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Dick Hardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Do you have a suggestion on how this should have been done
differently by me?
I made the motion on the board call and agreed to withdraw it until
after the membership committee report was published, and then we
could do the vote over email. Agreed that the vote should have been
started on the public list -- but we are here now.
Do you have a new motion to bring the nominees on the board that you
would support that we could act upon?
-- Dick
On 24-Oct-08, at 5:17 PM, DeWitt Clinton wrote:
This is not a vote against any of the nominees, but procedurally
and organizationally we can do better than this. Hence to the
motion as it stands at this time:
-1
-DeWitt
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Raj Mata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
-1.
Agree with Gary.
Raj
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Krall, Gary
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:42 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [OpenID board] URGENT: New Board members motion
-1.
As we are actively in the process of recruiting for a Executive
Director
which my understanding is should complete shortly coupled; with the
manner in which this vote has been requested/handled is a clear
indication to me that adding any additional members at this time
would
not be prudent.
Gary.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Dick Hardt
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:48 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [OpenID board] URGENT: New Board members motion
Importance: High
(this motion was originally posted on the board-private list to
protect the confidentiality of the potential corporate board members
-- reposting to public list to provide transparency to community)
Background:
There are two corporations that have expressed interest in joining
the
OpenID Foundation for the last six months. The board approved
adding 5
new corporate board seats, to be balanced with community seats so
that
the community seats have a majority.
Brian Kissel has been active on the marketing committee and the
customer research committee. He organized a gathering of content
providers in NY that led to the OpoenID UX summit last Monday.
The primary source of funding for the Foundation is corporate board
seats. In order to fund a new Executive Director and OpenID adoption
initiatives, we need more funding. The patience of the two
corporations is running thin as they have been waiting for far to
long
for a decision from the board.
The motion: Add the two corporate board seats and add Brian Kissel as
the community seat. Brian's seat (like all other community board
seats) would be up for re-election when we hold an election.
All board members need to vote or abstain for the motion to be
considered.
Votes to date:
+1 Dick Hardt (made motion)
+1 Martin Atkins (seconded motion)
-1 David Recordon
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