Hey DeWitt,
I'd love to have you join the IPR and Trademark committees to help us
push that work to completion!
--David
On Mar 31, 2009, at 10:11 AM, DeWitt Clinton wrote:
Fellow members of the Board,
As planned, Google is rotating our representative to the OpenID
Foundation board. It has been a true pleasure and honor to work
with the board over the past year, and I'm happy to see how much
we've grown and have been able to accomplish in that time. The
successful community elections at the end of 2008, the hiring of Don
Thibeau, our significant investment in UX research, our welcoming of
Facebook and PayPal to the board, and the community's tireless
evangelism and continued development of OpenID all stand out as
highlights of the year for me.
Google's new representative is no stranger to you all. I'm pleased
that Eric Sachs has agreed to fill the position -- an obvious choice
from our end, to be sure -- and Eric will step down from his
community-elected position to make the transition. As this creates
an opening among the community seats, I believe the bylaws stipulate
the next-highest community vote recipient, Allen Tom, will be
invited to fill the community seat that Eric is vacating. Assuming
Allen accepts the position, welcome! And a personal thank you to
Eric, who, as everyone knows, has been a principal driving force and
leader within Google around OpenID for quite some time.
My interest in OpenID doesn't stop here, of course. On the
contrary, I would like to offer my continued services in supporting
the Foundation and the community in a more focused capacity. In
particular, I would be happy to assist the IPR Committee and the
Trademark Committee in their efforts to improve the framework under
which the community operates and develops new technology.
Again, thank you all for the opportunity to work with the OIDF in
helping create what I'm certain will be seen in years to come as one
of the watershed moments in creating a more open and more social web.
Best regards,
DeWitt Clinton
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