> The good news is that our software vendor believes that we're on track to > hold a test election within a week or two. So we should be able to hold a > real board election not long after that.
The original plan, that had been agreed to by the entire board, was to do a membership drive *first* and then hold elections. How can we have elections without a membership? - Scott > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of DeWitt Clinton > Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 10:10 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OpenID board] URGENT: New Board members motion > > > > Rather than do it this way, why don't we simply start an open nomination > process (i.e., not nominations made by the board) and schedule a real > community election, as voted in by the members? > > -DeWitt > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Drummond Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > +1 to Snorri's nomination – his work speaks for itself. > > > > =Drummond > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of David Recordon > Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 9:42 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OpenID board] URGENT: New Board members motion > > > > If we're in nomination mode, then I'd also like to nominate Snorri to join > as a community board member (if he is willing to accept that nomination). > Snorri has done amazing community work internationally which should be > directly supported by the Foundation. > > > > On Nov 4, 2008, at 11:38 AM, Drummond Reed wrote: > > > > +1 to all Brian's points here. I want to clarify again that my objection > last week was not to moving forward on this – I am very supportive of adding > additional corporate board members immediately -- it was only to the > difficulty of closing what turned out to be a contentious issue via an email > vote. > > > > I am all for holding a vote this week if we want to call a meeting. Worst > case we could hold the vote at the BOD meeting next Monday afternoon at IIW. > (Have we set an exact time/location for that meeting? Will there be dial-in > so all board members can participate if they are not at IIW in person?) > > > > Also, in terms of community board members, I would like to nominate Brian > Kissel to join as a community board member (if he is willing to accept that > nomination). I'd move for that vote to be held at the same time so he could > join the board at the same time as the new corporate board members. > > > > =Drummond > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Brian Kissel > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 4:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OpenID board] URGENT: New Board members motion > > > > +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, 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]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > board mailing list > [email protected] > http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board > _______________________________________________ > board mailing list > [email protected] > http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board > _______________________________________________ > board mailing list > [email protected] > http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board > > _______________________________________________ > board mailing list > [email protected] > http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board > > > > _______________________________________________ > board mailing list > [email protected] > http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board > > _______________________________________________ > board mailing list > [email protected] > http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature > database 3580 (20081103) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > _______________________________________________ > board mailing list > [email protected] > http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board > > > > _______________________________________________ > board mailing list > [email protected] > http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board > > > > _______________________________________________ > board mailing list > [email protected] > http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board > > _______________________________________________ board mailing list [email protected] http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board
