[OpenID] This is not a company election

Chris Messina chris.messina at gmail.com
Thu Dec 11 19:16:23 UTC 2008


On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Johannes Ernst <jernst+openid.net@
netmesh.us> wrote:

>
> On Dec 11, 2008, at 11:01, Scott Kveton wrote:
>
>> While the open source participant in me is concerned about Brian not
>> having a personal blog, the current board member that has fiduciary
>> responsibility for the OIDF is not.  Brian may not completely
>> understand the 'open community' rules of engagement but *that's a good
>> thing for us*.  IMHO we have to get away from the whole
>> technology-for-the-sake-of-technology.
>>
>
> Now here's something I really can say ++1 to.
>
> We need to broaden the sets of expertise that we have on the board, not
> insist that all board members look and talk and do the same. (No board is
> needed for the latter at all, one individual as dictator will do just fine.)
>

Of course this gets my +1 as well.
Diversity is one thing that open source needs more of, and I'd love to work
on coming up with a plan in the next year to expand and increase the number
of active stakeholders and contributors to OpenID -- that goes well beyond
the protocol layer and into the social, political and economic aspects of
user-centric identity technologies.

Chris

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