Public minutes: http://wiki.openid.net/January-20%2C-2010-OpenID-Board-Call-Minutes
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Mike Jones <[email protected]>wrote: > *January 20, 2010 OpenID Board Call Minutes* > > > > *Present:* > > Don Thibeau, Executive Director > > John Bradley > > Mike Jones > > Tony Nadalin > > Mike Ozburn > > Brian Kissel > > Rob Harles > > Daniel Jacobson > > Chris Messina > > Gary Krall > > Nat Sakimura > > Pamela Dingle > > Marc Frons > > Dick Hardt > > Eric Sachs > > Allen Tom > > Andrew Nash > > David Recordon > > Luke Shepard > > Joseph Smarr > > > > *Absent:* > > Nataraj (Raj) Nagaratnam > > Raj Mata > > Dermot O’Mahony > > > > *Visitors:* > > (none) > > > > *1. **2010 Board Calendar* > > The proposed calendar has fewer phone meetings and more face-to-face > meetings of the full board. We are now receiving numerous requests for > presentations, largely in response to the government initiative. Don plans > to make these presentation opportunities available to board members, and do > very few of them himself. We are requesting that board members make a best > effort to attend all board meetings. We will approve the budget during the > March 3rd meeting at RSA. We plan to have a number of OpenID Summits > during the year, which were valuable in the past year. > > > > [Luke joined the call at this point.] > > > > In discussion, we decided to substitute the Gov 2.0 conference in DC for > OSCON – in part to put at least one of the meetings on the East Coast. With > that change, the schedule as proposed was adopted. > > > > *2. **Board Representatives* > > The new board members introduced themselves. Of the community directors, > Brian Kissel, Allen Tom, Joseph Smarr, and Daniel Jacobson were elected to > two-year board terms. John Bradley was elected to a one-year term, with > Dick Hardt and Rob Harles having been appointed to one-year terms to fill > community seats corresponding to the new corporate seats of LexisNexis and > Ping Identity, which are filled by Dermot O’Mahony and Pamela Dingle, > respectively. Tony Nadalin informed the board that he will be representing > Microsoft, with Mike Jones co-representing Microsoft for a transition period > through the Internet Identity Workshop in May. > > > > Don informed us that he’s in touch with Nataraj (Raj) Nagaratnam of IBM, > who is in India, to arrange for a proxy for the meetings he will not be able > to attend. > > > > *3. **New Expectations for Board Members and New Processes* > > Board members are requested to notify the board via e-mail if they will not > be able to attend a meeting and to identify a proxy. Committees can have > budgets and are expected to product results. Global Inventures (GI) has > tracking tools that can be used by committees. Committee chairs will be > expected to report on their committee’s progress at every full board > meeting. Each director is expected to chair or be vice-chair of at least > one committee. A two-year term limit is proposed for leading a committee. > It is hoped that the chair and vice chair will have terms overlapping by a > year, with each chair mentoring the current vice-chair to enable them to be > chair the next year. We plan to use the GI financial dashboard in this year > for all board members to be able to view financial status on an ongoing > basis. Don reinforced our existing policy that unless there is a good > reason for discussions to occur on the private board list, that they should > happen on the public list. In response to a question by Chris, Mike Jones > restated the existing policy that people need not be on the board to be on > committees, or indeed, to chair them. > > > > *4. **Committee Chairpersons and Members* > > We agreed to move selection of committee chairpersons and committee members > to an e-mail and online process. The board informally charged Don with > ensuring that everyone has signed up for committees in a timely fashion. > > > > [Joseph Smarr joined the call at this point.] > > > > *5. **Executive Committee* > > The board unanimously decided to have the executive committee consist of > the four officers and the executive director. David made the motion to that > effect and Brian seconded it. We decided, like last year, to select the > officers by consensus. We chose these officers by consensus: > > - Chair: Brian Kissel > - Secretary: Chris Messina, with Mike Jones mentoring Chris through > the end of May > - Treasurer: Mike Ozburn > > > > In the interest of time, a vote was held for the remaining position. Nat > Sakimura was selected as Vice-Chair from among a pool of three candidates by > the following vote: 14 for Nat Sakimura, 3 for Dick Hardt, 1 for David > Recordon, and 1 abstention. > > > > *6. **Certification Organization* > > The board discussed the joint steering committee’s recommendation to form a > separate legal organization to run the certification program for open > identity protocols. The Information Card Foundation voted to approve this > recommendation earlier this month. Brian moved and Tony seconded a motion > to approve the committee’s recommendations, which call for establishing an > independent certification organization called the Open Identity Exchange > (OIX). The motion carried with 4 abstentions. > > > > _______________________________________________ > board mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-board > > -- Chris Messina Open Web Advocate, Google Personal: http://factoryjoe.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/chrismessina This email is: [ ] shareable [X] ask first [ ] private
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