[OpenID - Eu] [OpenID board] Fwd: Status of the OpenID Foundation Europe

Nat Sakimura sakimura at gmail.com
Wed Dec 2 14:16:28 UTC 2009


Yes, let us do.

... though, we have to get hold of Snorri anyways to finalize the TM
transfer...

=nat

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Jean-Noël Colin <jn.colin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I can only add to Robert's analysis regarding current status of OpenID
> Europe, and support his suggestion of 'restarting OpenID Europe'. I'll for
> sure contribute
>
> Jean-Noël Colin
>
> On 02 Dec 2009, at 14:54, Nat Sakimura wrote:
>
> Forwarding this message by Robert Ott since it did not seem to get through
> to the list somehow.
>
> =nat
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Robert Ott <robert.ott at clavid.com>
> Date: Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 4:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [OpenID board] Status of the OpenID Foundation Europe
> To: Nat Sakimura <sakimura at gmail.com>, openid-board at lists.openid.net
> Cc: Snorri Giorgetti <snorri.giorgetti at gmail.com>,
> openid-eu at lists.openid.net
>
>
> Hi Nat / OIDF,
>
> OpenID Europe was mainly managed by Snorri Gioretti. As far as I now, he
> was/is officially responsible for managing Europe by the OIDF. At least it
> states so at OIDF => http://openid.net/foundation/leadership/
>
> In the past, he did take care of registering the OpenID trademark and
> domains in many European countries  (such as openideurope.eu). He also
> appointed the representatives for the countries stated at the page
> http://www.openideurope.eu/team/. That was great work an I really
> appreciate it.
>
> End of 2008, Snorri got elected to the OIDF board of directors for a 2
> years period in order to represent Europe in OIDF accordingly.
> Unfortunately, after he got elected, he almost disappeared from OpenID
> Europe activities. Nobody was officially appointed to take over Snorri's
> activities. I tried to reach him by E-Mail, Phone, SMS for the last 12 month
> but unfortunately with no response. Thus, the current situation is that many
> people (including me) don't know who actually manages OpenID Europe and more
> importantly, who is the owner of the registered trademarks and the domains
> such as openideurope.eu? Who has the contact information of all the
> European representatives? And so on. I thought Snorri donated everything to
> OIDF but I'm not sure about that.
>
> Does anybody of the board members have contact with Snorri to clarify
> responsibilities?
>
> I could help in bringing the content of openideurope.eu to another site as
> I do still have read and write access to the WordPress instance (but no
> admin rights, unfortunately). One place where to move it could be
> http://openid.net/foundation/chapters/europe/ in order to have it in the
> hands of OIDF. If I can get write access to openid.net, I could take care
> of that part.
>
> I think an important next step should be to appoint somebody from Europe
> (or a group of people with clear responsibilities) to take over the OpenID
> Europe activities.
>
> I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of activities here in Europe regarding
> OpenID promotion and integration. However, it is probably not widely
> recognized on the Internet as it just doesn't get published to a wide
> audience. OIDF could be a great platform to do so. I'm sure we all could do
> better, so lets restart OpenID Europe!
>
> But as I mentioned, a first step should be that OIDF clarifies with Snorri
> the current status and the appoint appropriate people to take over
> activities.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Robert, OpenID Switzerland
>
> On 25.11.2009, at 18:06, Nat Sakimura wrote:
>
> > Hi Robert,
> >
> > Any news from your side?
> >
> > =nat
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Jean-Noël Colin <jn.colin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Henrik
> >
> > I must admit I do share your concerns about openid europe; I haven't seen
> much activity around that foundation and was also wondering whether it would
> be more appropriate to have one single consolidated foundation, rather than
> maintaining an idle one.
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Jean-Noel Colin
> >
> > On 25 Nov 2009, at 03:06, Henrik Biering wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Snorri,
> > > how are you doing? I have not heard anything from you for quite a long
> time.
> > >
> > > Yesterday, I discovered that the openid.dk domain registered by OpenID
> foundation Europe had expired and had been deactivated.
> > > I have now managed to pay the invoice and get the domain reactivated.
> > >
> > > However, I wonder about the situation of OpenID Europe Foundation in
> general. You have done an impressive job of aquiring the European and
> National Trademarks for OpenID as well as several national OpenID domains on
> behalf of the EU foundation, and it would be sad to see the result of these
> efforts vanish.
> > >
> > > If there are no resources available to maintain OpenID Foundation
> Europe, maybe it is appropriate to consider how this IPR may be consolidated
> within the global OpenID Foundation (or alternatively at the national
> levels).
> > >
> > > Best Regards,
> > > Henrik Biering
> > > OpenID-DK representative
> > >
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