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On 2008/11/05, at 2:42, David Recordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 obj
ection last week was not to moving forward on this – I am very sup
portive 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 t
he same time so he could join the board at the same time as the ne
w corporate board members.
=Drummond
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
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Subject: Re: [OpenID board] URGENT: New Board members motion
+1 with Dick on additional corporate members. I’ve had conversati
ons with BBC (Zac Bjelogrlic, Dirk-willem Van.gulik ) and PayPal (
Andrew Nash) and know that both organizations would both like to j
oin. 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 fir
ms are willing to make a commitment of time and dollars, I think w
e should not delay.
BBC has already shown their leadership by hosting the Content
Provider Advisory Committee meeting in NYC several weeks ago. The
y’ve also OpenID enabled RadioPop and are looking at additional pr
operties to roll out. They’ve offered to work with NPR (who was a
lso at the NYC session) to see if we can get BBC, NPR, PBS, and CB
C to collaborate on OpenID enablement initiatives. And in any cas
e, we need some large representative RPs on the BOD. As I’ve said
before, I think media companies are a next logical adopter of Ope
nID, 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 mem
bership. I also agree with Dick that getting the funding commitme
nt from these two companies in uncertain financial times is critic
al and will actually help with hiring the new ED and coming up wit
h a reasonable budget for the various initiatives we’ll want to un
dertake in 2009. For those that didn’t see Nat Sakimura’s
announcement about OpenID Japan, they are making great progress an
d 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 c
ontinue to participate via my membership on the Marketing and Cust
omer 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 w
ait 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 f
ine with me.
Cheers,
Brian
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