[OpenID] This is not a company election

[chris.messina at gmail.com]

No... It's that there are two levels of board membership: community
and corporate.

I believe there are N + 1 community seats to N corporate seats.

The point is a good one: community members are advocates for the
community, individuals and non-corporate interests at large, and there
pay a nominal fee to participate. Corporate board members are
typically expected to cover a lion's share of the costs associated
with running the Foundation (or so it seems in practice).

If Brian is vying for a community seat, he would, as has been pointed
out, desire the seat regardless of his employer and would take serious
the charge to represent the interests of the community over, or in
conjunction with, his company's interests.

For my own part, I work at Vidoop part-time. I also own and run a
consulting company called Citizen Agency. Vidoop stands to benefit
from the advancement of OpenID in the marketplace, but I'm running for
the community board seat because I believe in the promise of OpenID
and demonstrated that long before I ever started working at Vidoop.

Some degree of self-interest (even commercial) is to be expected of
the candidates. However, it should not be the overriding interest in
running as there are corporate seats designed for such parties.

Chris

On 12/11/08, Eric Norman <ejnorman at doit.wisc.edu> wrote:
> Let's see if I have the picture here.
>
> The OpenID community enthusiastically touts the fact that some
> large companies are supporting OpenID.
>
> The OpenID community also wants to make it clear the those
> companies should have no voice as far as OpenID is concerned.
>
> Eric Norman
>
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