[OpenID board] [RFC] Funding Model Note

[Recordon, David]

Any other feedback or should I send this?

--David 

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From: board-bounces at openid.net [mailto:board-bounces at openid.net] On
Behalf Of Drummond Reed
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 9:40 PM
To: board at openid.net
Subject: Re: [OpenID board] [RFC] Funding Model Note

David,

Here's a suggested second draft:

All,

Like any organization, the OpenID Foundation board needs a
sustainability model (aka how do we pay the bills). This is one of the
final remaining steps to actually getting the legal organization fully
spun up. 

In coming up with a plna, we've tried hard to balance the need for funds
to help more widely promote and evangelize OpenID, while not becoming
evil or allowing influence or control to be bought.  One nice protection
is that the Foundation (per the charter sent out previously) does not
control the specifications.

You can find a proposed draft of the funding model (to be reflected in
the Foundation's bylaws) on the wiki at
http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/OpenID_Foundation/sustainability. To
send comments and suggestions, please do not use the talk page on the
wiki, but rather reply to this thread.  

Thanks,

The OpenID Foundation Board


-----Original Message-----
From: board-bounces at openid.net [mailto:board-bounces at openid.net] On
Behalf Of Recordon, David
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 5:09 PM
To: board at openid.net
Subject: Re: [OpenID board] [RFC] Funding Model Note

That is the plan, just need review by this list first. :) 

-----Original Message-----
From: board-bounces at openid.net [mailto:board-bounces at openid.net] On
Behalf Of Scott Kveton
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 4:58 PM
To: board at openid.net
Subject: Re: [OpenID board] [RFC] Funding Model Note

Are we going to send this off to general@ ?

- Scott

On 4/15/07 3:50 PM, "Recordon, David" <drecordon at verisign.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
> One of the initial tasks the OpenID Foundation board has taken on is 
> coming up with a sustainability (aka how do we get money) model for 
> the organization.  We've tried hard to balance the need for money to 
> help more widely promote and evangelize OpenID, while not becoming 
> evil or allowing influence or control to be bought.  One nice 
> protection is that the Foundation (per the charter sent out
> previously) does not control the specifications.
> 
> You can find the proposed draft of the funding model (to be worked 
> into the organization's bylaws) on the wiki at 
> http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/OpenID_Foundation/sustainability.
> Please do not use the talk page on the wiki, but rather reply to this 
> thread with comments and suggestions.  This is one of the final 
> remaining steps needed to actually get the legal organization fully 
> spun up.
> 
> Thanks,
> The OpenID Foundation Board
> _______________________________________________
> board mailing list
> board at openid.net
> http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board
> 

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