Each of the OpenID Summits this year has had its own purpose and personality. The Summit in Chicago brought the RP perspective and adoption committee agenda to life. The Tech Summit Mountain View kicked off a new set of working groups. The OpenID Summit in London opened up a two way exchange - Google, CA Tech, Microsoft and others provided updates and a variety of EU OpenID initiatives were debated and described. Ilan Caron demo''ed the Google/Yahoo! email project. Kim Cameron pointed out the challenges of channeling diverse engineering creativity into standards processes and underlined the differences in "enterprise development time versus consumer cloud time."
One of the success metrics of the Summit will be increased visibility and coordination on the pilots underway in Belgium, Germany and elsewhere. Mike Jones reviewed all OIDF planned and authorized working groups with intent to solicit increase international participation. Combining the OpenID Summit with the OASIS and EEMA meetings provided the hoped for synergies and encouragement for similar events later in the year. One benefit of a directed funding model might open up funding options of OpenID Europe by local companies. Thanks again to the Microsoft team for hosting, John Bradley and Kick Willemse for developing the agenda and all participants for another successful Summit. Don Thibeau Executive Director The OpenID Foundation <http://openid.net> http://openid.net
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