Hi DeWitt,
Echoing the messages from others, thanks so much for all your contributions to date and willingness to continue contributing on committees and working groups. Allen Tom has confirmed his willingness to serve replacing Eric as a community board member and the board will vote on this at the next board meeting in two weeks. Cheers, Brian ============== Brian Kissel Cell: 503.866.4424 Fax: 503.296.5502 From: DeWitt Clinton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 10:12 AM To: Don Thibeau (OIDF ED); Brian Kissel; Eric Sachs; [email protected] Subject: [SPAM?] Change in Google representation to the board Importance: Low 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 Google, Inc. __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3978 (20090331) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3982 (20090402) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com
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