[OpenID] What election?

[Drummond Reed]

> >Remember, we are all volunteers.
> 
> Shade wrote:
>
> Very true. The only (useful) thing I can add here is that, if you
> don't think you'll have much (if any) free time over the next few
> months, think carefully before running for a board seat. I've not
> been doing too well on the "free time" myself, to the point where I
> hardly even have time to glance at subject lines of incoming mail on
> this list (and for a while was only downloading every few days), much
> less continue working on the OpenID-related posts I had going.

I feel your pain - see below.

> Can someone tell us when the *next* election would be held, so we
> know how long we're committing to have these people (the ones we'll
> vote for this time) in place and when we might aim for having free
> time ourselves so we can focus on board membership if we're currently
> staying away from that on account of not having enough free time?

Elections are annual from now on. Half of the new community board will be
elected for a 2-year term, and half for 1-year, so half the board will turn
over a year from now.

The key reason I'm not running for re-election is Slade's point. I'm on
three other foundation boards and four OASIS standards committees (two of
which I co-chair), and I've been finding myself spread too thin to be
effective on all of them. Some members of the OpenID community I've been
working with (e.g., Eran, John Bradley, Nat Sakimura, Brian Kissel) are in a
better position to contribute, so when they agreed to run, plus the other
excellent nominees, I feel much better supporting these new candidates.

I urge everyone in the community to join the foundation (now that it's $25
you've no reason not to), run or second others to run, and vote early and
often (but just once per OpenID ;-)

=Drummond