Good observation Chris.

Are there any volunteers in the OpenID Community who are willing to work with 
Global Inventures & Don Thibeau to help us review UV input and update the OIDF 
website, respond to inquiries, etc?  If so, please speak up.

I still believe that UV is a great tool to capture community feedback, but also 
agree with Chris that if we don't have the resources to address the inquiries 
and recommendations from folks who visit our website, we should find a better 
way to capture and process that input so that we don't appear to be 
unresponsive.  This is nothing against UV which I still think is a great 
offering, its more about our ability to take actions based on input from our 
site visitors.

Cheers,

Brian
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From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Messina
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 10:47 AM
To: OpenID Board (public)
Cc: Richard White
Subject: [OpenID board] Getting the most out of UserVoice.com

I receive notifications from the OpenID UserVoice microsite on a nearly daily 
basis (http://ideas.openid.net).
Lately, most of the suggestions and bug reports are null, made up of one or two 
words, or outright spam.

The legitimate requests and suggestions are few and far between and not on the 
whole all that useful.

In the beginning, Brian Kissel heavily advocated for using UserVoice to collect 
user opinions and ideas, and now the management of the site has fallen 
entirely, it seems, to me.

I'd like to propose that we either figure out how to operational the data from 
this site or get Inventures to manage it for us and then provide bi-weekly 
reports to the board about what people are looking for.

Considering that we just executed a survey of the board's priorities and it was 
proposed that we do the same for the membership, it seems that we're not only 
ignoring solutions that we already have in place to collect this kind of 
information, but that we're already failing to use the information that we 
already have.

Unless we can expand the parties within the foundation who are receiving and 
able to act on this information, I suggest that we shut down UserVoice in the 
beginning of the new year and find other ways to pool member and public 
sentiment that we'll actually use.

Chris

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