It seems like you're breaking things down along the lines of "what" comprises OpenID and "how" it advances in the marketplace -- or at least that's how I'm interpreting your statement.<div><br>
</div><div>Unfortunately marketing a shitty product won't get us very far, so I'd say that UX is just as primary as marketing. It might not be up to the board to "do" the UX work, but nor is it the board's job to "do" the marketing.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Facilitate both, certainly -- and given where we are -- I'd say with equal vigor.</div><div><br></div><div>Chris<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Dick Hardt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dick.hardt@gmail.com">dick.hardt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Chris, your comments bring up an important scope issue: I would consider user experience to be a technical issue, and if so, not an issue for the board to determine -- but an area for the board to facilitate activity.<br>
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Marketing of OpenID is clearly within the the scope of the board.<br><font color="#888888">
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On 4-Jan-09, at 3:54 PM, <a href="mailto:chris.messina@gmail.com" target="_blank">chris.messina@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
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Absolutely. As aboard member, id love for my two areas to be user<br>
experience Nd marketing!<br>
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