[OpenID board] OpenID Update: Orientation Briefing Feedback

Deepak Kamlani dkamlani at inventures.com
Fri Jan 15 23:35:28 UTC 2010


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
 
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From: Mike Jones [mailto:Michael.Jones at microsoft.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 8:48 AM
To: openid-board at 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-bounces at lists.openid.net
[mailto:openid-board-bounces at lists.openid.net] On Behalf Of Brian Kissel
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:00 PM
To: openid-board at lists.openid.net; John Ehrig (jehrig at inventures.com);
Deepak Kamlani (dkamlani at 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
___________
 
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CEO - JanRain, Inc.
bkissel at janrain.com
Mobile: 503.342.2668 | Fax: 503.296.5502
 
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From: openid-board-bounces at lists.openid.net
[mailto:openid-board-bounces at lists.openid.net] On Behalf Of David
Recordon
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 7:23 PM
To: openid-board at 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 <bkissel at 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.
bkissel at janrain.com
Mobile: 503.342.2668 | Fax: 503.296.5502
 
 
From: openid-board-bounces at lists.openid.net
[mailto:openid-board-bounces at lists.openid.net] On Behalf Of Brian Kissel
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 6:06 PM

To: openid-board at 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.
bkissel at 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-bounces at lists.openid.net
[mailto:openid-board-bounces at lists.openid.net] On Behalf Of Don Thibeau
(OIDF ED)
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 5:58 PM
To: openid-board at 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
don at OIDF.org
Executive Director
The OpenID Foundation
http://openid.net
 

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