Hey OpenSocial spec folks and Shindig folks, The forwarded note below talks about the OpenSocial Foundation and provides some links to get involved as official members of the OpenSocial Foundation and then nominate individuals to serve on the foundation's Board of Directors. If you have ideas about who would make good representatives of the community, please get involved and nominate them. There are 2 seats available.
Membership application: http://www.opensocial.org/opensocial-foundation/osf-membership-app Board of directors nomination form: http://www.opensocial.org/opensocial-foundation/osf-community-nomination By the way, if you have ideas for the foundation, the community, or other items that aren't explicitly about the technical specification, I'd encourage you to post on the OpenSocial Community forum: http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-community/topics (aka [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Cheers, -Dan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dan Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 4:38 PM Subject: The OpenSocial Foundation -- membership and board of directors nominations To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey everyone, For those who didn't see the blogpost, I wanted to drop a note here with an update about the OpenSocial Foundation: http://opensocialapis.blogspot.com/2008/09/good-foundation-for-opensocial-get.html The OpenSocial Foundation's purpose is to make sure the work we're doing -- together -- remains free for everyone to implement and accessible for anyone who wishes to be involved. This means that we're putting together an intellectual property rights management process like is typical with many open source projects. To be clear, the OpenSocial Foundation board is explicitly designed to avoid top-down governing of OpenSocial's technological directions -- that will remain a public, community-driven process. You can read more about the OpenSocial Foundation here: http://www.opensocial.org/opensocial-foundation In addition, the OpenSocial Foundation has a board of directors composed of 7 seats -- 2 of which are to be filled by individual members of the community. If you'd like to become a member of the foundation, you can then also nominate and vote on who should fill those two seats: Membership application: http://www.opensocial.org/opensocial-foundation/osf-membership-app Board of directors nomination form: http://www.opensocial.org/opensocial-foundation/osf-community-nomination Get involved today! Cheers, -Dan
