Thanks for the notes, I think I was on the phone for part of this meeting. On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Mike Jones <[email protected]>wrote:
> *September 23, 2009 OpenID Executive Committee Call Minutes* > > > > *Attendees:* > > Mike Jones > > Nat Sakimura > > Brian Kissel > > Don Thibeau, Executive Director > > > > *Absent:* > > David Recordon > > Scott Kveton > > Raj Mata > > * * > > *Visitors:* > > John Ehrig, Global Inventures > > Mike Ozburn > > > > *1. **Executive Committee Membership Changes* > > At the next full board meeting we plan to vote to appoint Nat as Vice-Chair > and Mike Ozburn as Treasurer. We propose that Nat continue to act as > international Liaison until after the next election occurs. In the context > of international interest in OpenID, Don reported that a number of non-US > governments have contacted him and asked for information about other > potential government adoptions of OpenID. > > > > *2. **Membership and Financial Status Review* > > Don will be presenting a review of our membership and financial status at > the next board meeting. > > > > *3. **US Government Initiative Update* > > John Bradley is continuing to work on the profiles, despite no longer being > compensated by the OIDF, nor to our knowledge, by the ICF. Don is trying to > arrange for some government funding to be directed to John, to assure > continuity of the effort. > > > > Vivek Kundra has informed Don that some additional pilot sites are being > considered, some under the auspices of the White House and some not. > Furthermore, some may be at higher levels of assurance. > > > > Progress is occurring on the trust framework development process. We are > continuing to do this work jointly with the ICF, both to share resources, > and to draw upon additional expertise to support our efforts. In > particular, we need legal help on a volunteer basis. We will be sharing > this effort with the Center for Democracy, among others, next week in DC. > Don will also be talking with Brett McDowell of Kantara about potential > collaboration opportunities in this area as well. We want our trust > framework provider application to be general enough to be applicable in > contexts outside US Government uses, if possible. > > > > One measure of the US Government’s commitment to this effort that we will > be closely monitoring is whether the government funds additional pilot > projects and John Bradley’s efforts. As they say, “money talks”. > > > > *4. **openid.net Website* > > Our web site was updated, thanks to hard work by Chris Messina. There was > a consensus that the full board should pass a motion officially thanking > Chris for his significant contribution and work above-and-beyond the call of > duty. > > > > *5. **Bylaws and IPR Document Updates* > > We will have updated versions of the Bylaws and IPR documents to approve at > the next full board meeting. Don committed to getting versions ready for > votes to the board by a week before the full board meeting so that we can > review these documents with our respective legal counsels. > > > > *6. **Inventory of Existing IPR Agreements* > > John Ehrig has collected and will be publishing an inventory of existing > signed IPR documents. The next step will be to determine who else we should > have agreements from and to work to obtain them. > > > > *7. **OpenID Trademark* > > We have obtained a legal review from Scott Blackburn on the issues that we > need to tackle to defend the OpenID trademark. > > > > *8. **Date and Topics for In-Person Board Meeting* > > We are planning to piggy-back our in-person board meeting in November to > the end of IIW. It will likely be Thursday afternoon and Friday morning – > November 5 and 6. Don and John are working on a schedule and proposed > topics for the board meetings for the remainder of the year. > > > > *9. **Extension of Don’s Contract* > > The executive committee unanimously extended Don’s contract for a term of > another six months. > > > > _______________________________________________ > board mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-board > >
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