Hi I can only add to Robert's analysis regarding current status of OpenID Europe, and support his suggestion of 'restarting OpenID Europe'. I'll for sure contribute
Jean-Noël Colin On 02 Dec 2009, at 14:54, Nat Sakimura wrote: > Forwarding this message by Robert Ott since it did not seem to get through to > the list somehow. > > =nat > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Robert Ott <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 4:23 AM > Subject: Re: [OpenID board] Status of the OpenID Foundation Europe > To: Nat Sakimura <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Cc: Snorri Giorgetti <[email protected]>, [email protected] > > > Hi Nat / OIDF, > > OpenID Europe was mainly managed by Snorri Gioretti. As far as I now, he > was/is officially responsible for managing Europe by the OIDF. At least it > states so at OIDF => http://openid.net/foundation/leadership/ > > In the past, he did take care of registering the OpenID trademark and domains > in many European countries (such as openideurope.eu). He also appointed the > representatives for the countries stated at the page > http://www.openideurope.eu/team/. That was great work an I really appreciate > it. > > End of 2008, Snorri got elected to the OIDF board of directors for a 2 years > period in order to represent Europe in OIDF accordingly. Unfortunately, after > he got elected, he almost disappeared from OpenID Europe activities. Nobody > was officially appointed to take over Snorri's activities. I tried to reach > him by E-Mail, Phone, SMS for the last 12 month but unfortunately with no > response. Thus, the current situation is that many people (including me) > don't know who actually manages OpenID Europe and more importantly, who is > the owner of the registered trademarks and the domains such as > openideurope.eu? Who has the contact information of all the European > representatives? And so on. I thought Snorri donated everything to OIDF but > I'm not sure about that. > > Does anybody of the board members have contact with Snorri to clarify > responsibilities? > > I could help in bringing the content of openideurope.eu to another site as I > do still have read and write access to the WordPress instance (but no admin > rights, unfortunately). One place where to move it could be > http://openid.net/foundation/chapters/europe/ in order to have it in the > hands of OIDF. If I can get write access to openid.net, I could take care of > that part. > > I think an important next step should be to appoint somebody from Europe (or > a group of people with clear responsibilities) to take over the OpenID Europe > activities. > > I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of activities here in Europe regarding > OpenID promotion and integration. However, it is probably not widely > recognized on the Internet as it just doesn't get published to a wide > audience. OIDF could be a great platform to do so. I'm sure we all could do > better, so lets restart OpenID Europe! > > But as I mentioned, a first step should be that OIDF clarifies with Snorri > the current status and the appoint appropriate people to take over activities. > > Best Regards > > Robert, OpenID Switzerland > > On 25.11.2009, at 18:06, Nat Sakimura wrote: > > > Hi Robert, > > > > Any news from your side? > > > > =nat > > > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Jean-Noël Colin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Henrik > > > > I must admit I do share your concerns about openid europe; I haven't seen > > much activity around that foundation and was also wondering whether it > > would be more appropriate to have one single consolidated foundation, > > rather than maintaining an idle one. > > > > Best regards > > > > Jean-Noel Colin > > > > On 25 Nov 2009, at 03:06, Henrik Biering wrote: > > > > > Hi Snorri, > > > how are you doing? I have not heard anything from you for quite a long > > > time. > > > > > > Yesterday, I discovered that the openid.dk domain registered by OpenID > > > foundation Europe had expired and had been deactivated. > > > I have now managed to pay the invoice and get the domain reactivated. > > > > > > However, I wonder about the situation of OpenID Europe Foundation in > > > general. You have done an impressive job of aquiring the European and > > > National Trademarks for OpenID as well as several national OpenID domains > > > on behalf of the EU foundation, and it would be sad to see the result of > > > these efforts vanish. > > > > > > If there are no resources available to maintain OpenID Foundation Europe, > > > maybe it is appropriate to consider how this IPR may be consolidated > > > within the global OpenID Foundation (or alternatively at the national > > > levels). > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > Henrik Biering > > > OpenID-DK representative > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > board mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-board > > > > _______________________________________________ > > board mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-board > > > > > > > > -- > > Nat Sakimura (=nat) > > http://www.sakimura.org/en/ > > > > > -- > Nat Sakimura (=nat) > http://www.sakimura.org/en/ > _______________________________________________ > board mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-board
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