[OpenID - Eu] A european voice within OIDF

[Henrik Biering]

Hello all!

At last years board election Snorri Giorgetti, who represented the 
OpenID Europe Foundation was elected to the OpenID board with a very 
large number of votes.

Sadly, due to various circumstances he was not able to fulfil this role 
and was removed from the board shortly before this election. This has 
left the OpenID Foundation without representation from Europe - and 
Europe with a broken OpenID community and uncertainty about the future 
direction and role of the OpenID Foundation Europe.

Fortunately more people from various European countries have stepped 
forward to offer their assistance in making Europe an active part of the 
OpenID community. Four people have nominated themselves for the 
election, and even more people have agreed to contribute to a core team 
working with the European candidate(s) that get elected.

This Thursday the group held its first phone conference. A general 
agreement on various issues was confirmed and it was decided to move 
forward as a group. We want to work as a community as part of the OIDF 
and not focusing on setting a legal entity like the OIDE was. Therefore 
the goals of the OIDF are leading in how we will contribute.

The next European Conference call will be Thursday, 7. January. Watch 
out for more details on the Openid-EU list. We are looking forward to 
extend the reach of OpenID within Europe and to give Europe a voice 
within the OpenID Foundation.

We urge you to consider each of the European candidates. We recognize, 
however, that the overall list of candidates includes a large number of 
other candidates with significant merits. Therefore the participants in 
the phone conference agreed to nominate Kick Willemse from Holland as 
our primary European candidate. So if you have no specific preference 
for any of the European candidates we jointly propose that you:

VOTE for Kick Willemse

Posted on behalf of the participants in the first European phone conference:
Henrik Biering, Denmark
Kick Willemse, Holland
Lorenzo Cassulo, Italy
Martin Paljak, Estonia
Marcin Jagodziński, Poland
Robert Ott, Switzerland
Simon Josefsson, Sweden
Zdravko Stoychev, Bulgaria