Hi everyone. I would agree that a key success factor for the EC is that it is small, and that it should be kept that way. Conversely, many of our clients do establish a committee of committee chairs, primarily to ensure that the work under way in the individual committees is synchronized (OK I don't think I've over used a word in a sentence quite this much!). Where the goal is synch on the technical side, it's called an Architecture Committee or something like that. Where it's synching all moving pieces it's called Strategy or something similar. Either of those may have application here. Meeting frequency is variable per need and activity-sometimes monthly, sometimes quarterly. I hope this helps (could someone please forward to the Board reflector I don't think I'm on it so it will probably bounce) Cheers Deepak ________________________________
From: Mike Jones [mailto:michael.jo...@microsoft.com] Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 8:48 AM To: openid-board@lists.openid.net; John Ehrig; Deepak Kamlani Subject: RE: [OpenID board] OpenID Update: Orientation Briefing Feedback I'm strongly against adding all the committee chairs to the executive committee. We established it to be small and focused. Other committees should similarly be focused, and regularly report on their progress to the full board (just like the executive committee does). Adding the committee chairs to the executive committee would only perpetrate the misperception that the real work is done by the full board and the executive committee, rather than in the numerous other focused committees. -- Mike From: openid-board-boun...@lists.openid.net [mailto:openid-board-boun...@lists.openid.net] On Behalf Of Brian Kissel Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:00 PM To: openid-board@lists.openid.net; John Ehrig (jeh...@inventures.com); Deepak Kamlani (dkaml...@inventures.com) Subject: Re: [OpenID board] OpenID Update: Orientation Briefing Feedback Today we have the 4 statutory roles + international and technical liaisons (6 people total) on the EC. We also have the following 7 committees: 1. Bylaws 2. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) 3. Marketing 4. Security 5. Specification Council 6. Trademark 7. Usability So that would be 13 people on the EC, more if there are "co-chairs" for committees as Don has been advocating. In addition, we don't have a committee specifically targeted to RPs and supporting adoption/usage. Usability contributes to adoption, Marketing contributes to awareness, but if we really want to drive adoption we should probably have an adoption focused committee chaired by folks with mainstream RP focus. Maybe we should reconsider what standing committees we need for 2010, but there will be a number of them in any case. In 2009 the EC met every 2 weeks (EC meetings then monthly full board meetings). That's a lot to expect 14+ people to participate in, and one of the reasons we opted to keep the EC small in 2009. On the other hand, Don has suggested less full board meetings in 2010, so perhaps we can have the EC meet less frequently as well. It would be good to hear again from Global Inventures what the role of the EC is vs. the entire board. I'm in agreement with Don, Deepak, David, and others who have been advocating moving more of the tactical execution and functional area efforts to the committees and keeping the board and EC focused on strategy, governance, finance, and operations. Look forward to additional feedback from GI and other board members. It would be good for us to discuss on this list how we'd like to proceed in advance of the first board meeting, so we can make that a productive meeting. There are certainly other important initiatives beyond the composition of our executive committee that we need to focus our attention on. Cheers, Brian ___________ Brian Kissel <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/10/254> CEO - JanRain, Inc. bkis...@janrain.com Mobile: 503.342.2668 | Fax: 503.296.5502 Increase registrations, engage users, and grow your brand with RPX. Learn more at www.rpxnow.com <http://www.rpxnow.com/> From: openid-board-boun...@lists.openid.net [mailto:openid-board-boun...@lists.openid.net] On Behalf Of David Recordon Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 7:23 PM To: openid-board@lists.openid.net Subject: Re: [OpenID board] OpenID Update: Orientation Briefing Feedback 2010 is the year where we must work on developing OpenID as a product beyond just a technology. That said, I don't think that extending the Executive Committee with another appointed liaison role is the correct approach. This year we must also push work out from the Board into Committees. This both broadens the pool of people who can directly become involved and forces us as an organization to increase the value for non-sustaining members. I believe that the Executive Committee should be chartered to either: 1) remain small (no more than five) and perform the execution work not done in the Committees themselves, or 2) be made up of the Officers (president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer) and the chair of each Committee to focus on tackling execution issues across the organization as a whole. I am supportive of being more formulaic to the organizations leadership structure. --David On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Brian Kissel <bkis...@janrain.com> wrote: Well, I guess I didn't wait ;-) As I said on the call yesterday, I think Daniel's idea is a good one. We added the technical and international liaison roles to ensure we had sufficient breadth of perspective at the executive committee working level, and I think it served us well in 2009. Given that we really want to continue to drive adoption and usage in 2010, having a representative on the EC that brings the "voice of the customer" is a good thing. We have some new board members that bring that viewpoint and it would be great to make the most of this in the coming year. Cheers, Brian ___________ Brian Kissel <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/10/254> CEO - JanRain, Inc. bkis...@janrain.com Mobile: 503.342.2668 | Fax: 503.296.5502 From: openid-board-boun...@lists.openid.net [mailto:openid-board-boun...@lists.openid.net] On Behalf Of Brian Kissel Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 6:06 PM To: openid-board@lists.openid.net Subject: Re: [OpenID board] OpenID Update: Orientation Briefing Feedback Thanks Don, I'll wait a bit to see how others respond before putting in my +1 Cheers, Brian ___________ Brian Kissel <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/10/254> CEO - JanRain, Inc. bkis...@janrain.com Mobile: 503.342.2668 | Fax: 503.296.5502 Increase registrations, engage users, and grow your brand with RPX. Learn more at www.rpxnow.com <http://www.rpxnow.com/> From: openid-board-boun...@lists.openid.net [mailto:openid-board-boun...@lists.openid.net] On Behalf Of Don Thibeau (OIDF ED) Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 5:58 PM To: openid-board@lists.openid.net Cc: 'Daniel Jacobson' Subject: [OpenID board] OpenID Update: Orientation Briefing Feedback OIDF Board Members Yesterday the new members of the OpenID Board of Directors received an orientation briefing on many of the plans and priorities we will discuss on our first meeting Jan 20th. While not an official meeting, the agenda previewed some of key issues the new board will consider as well as info for our budget development and committee process for 2010. The relevant content from the orientation briefing will be updated and included as part of the background material for the teleconference on the 20th. For your information: One of the suggestions that came out of that discussion was a suggestion from Daniel Jacobson that the views of relying parties can be best represented by the addition of a liaison on the executive committee. It was suggested that this new role be similar to that of the international and technical community liaison positions. These "non officer" positions are part of the executive committee by virtue of board convention established last year rather than OIDF by laws. Board Action Item: Please let me know if you are unable to make the teleconference on the 20th and, if desired, to whom you designate as your proxy. Don Thibeau d...@oidf.org Executive Director The OpenID Foundation http://openid.net _______________________________________________ board mailing list bo...@lists.openid.net http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-board
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