+1 with Dick on additional corporate members. I've had conversations with BBC (Zac Bjelogrlic, Dirk-willem Van.gulik ) and PayPal (Andrew Nash) and know that both organizations would both like to join. I don't know who else in on the list of possible new members, but if we have up to 5 corporate spots to fill and these two firms are willing to make a commitment of time and dollars, I think we should not delay.
BBC has already shown their leadership by hosting the Content Provider Advisory Committee meeting in NYC several weeks ago. They've also OpenID enabled RadioPop and are looking at additional properties to roll out. They've offered to work with NPR (who was also at the NYC session) to see if we can get BBC, NPR, PBS, and CBC to collaborate on OpenID enablement initiatives. And in any case, we need some large representative RPs on the BOD. As I've said before, I think media companies are a next logical adopter of OpenID, so would welcome BBC's membership. PayPal would also be great because they have a lot of experience in managing phishing and general security infrastructure and represent the perspective of merchants and payment infrastructure providers, which we need represented on the BOD if we want to continue to expand the applicability and value of OpenID beyond user generated content access. I don't know if these are the companies we're thinking about voting on near term, but if so, I would strongly endorse their membership. I also agree with Dick that getting the funding commitment from these two companies in uncertain financial times is critical and will actually help with hiring the new ED and coming up with a reasonable budget for the various initiatives we'll want to undertake in 2009. For those that didn't see Nat Sakimura's announcement about OpenID Japan<http://openid.net/2008/11/03/openid-japan-launches-with-32-member-companies/>, they are making great progress and we need to have equally compelling aspirations. With respect to community membership, JanRain would certainly welcome the opportunity to contribute as a BOD member, but we'll continue to participate via my membership on the Marketing and Customer Research Committee regardless. We are working with Research Media to get the OpenID membership polling solution working this week and the BOD election system working next week. Regardless of that, I don't think we should wait on the BOD vote the two additional corporate members. There is a lot of good buzz going on right now with the Microsoft and Google announcements. If we could also announce these two new corporate BOD members at IIW, that we can continue to build on that momentum. So, IMHO, we should do the vote on the 2 additional corporate sponsors right now (assuming they are still willing) and finalize them this week. If we want to wait on community members, that's fine with me. Cheers, Brian ============== Brian Kissel Cell: 503.866.4424 Fax: 503.296.5502 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dick Hardt Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 3:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OpenID board] URGENT: New Board members motion 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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: -1. Agree with Gary. Raj -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] On Behalf Of Krall, Gary Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:42 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[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]> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]On Behalf Of Dick Hardt Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:48 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[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. 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