[OpenID board] ACTION REQUIRED - BOARD VOTE was RE: OpenID bounty awards ...

[David Recordon]

+1

On Dec 17, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Scott Kveton wrote:

>> I was hoping someone else would look it up ... :-)
>
> As per section 4.9 of the OpenID Foundation bylaws (thanks Chris for
> wiki-izing those):
>
> https://openid.pbwiki.com/Bylaws#Section49ActionbyWrittenBallot
>
> We can use a written ballot (email will suffice for each board member)
> and require the following:
>
> * The motion or proposed action that
> * Motion must indicate the number of responses needed to meet quorum
> and percentage of approvals to pass
> * Provide an opportunity to specify approval or disapproval of each
> proposed action
> * Specify a reasonable time within which to return the ballot to this
> corporation
>
> As per section 4.9 the written ballot is treated as a "special
> meeting" and is subject to "reasonable time" (7 days) from section
> 4.4:
>
> https://openid.pbwiki.com/Bylaws#Section44NoticeofMeetings
>
> As such, I'm going to make the following motion:
>
> I would like to conclude the OpenID Bounty program by awarding
> qualifying open source projects Dokeos, TwikiWiki and Joomla each
> $5000 for a grand total of $15000 to be paid out by the OpenID
> Foundation.  This motion will require responses from 7 board members
> with at least 4 +1's (57.1% in favor) from those responses by
> Wednesday 12/24/2008.
>
> - Scott
>
>
>
> On 11-Dec-08, at 4:59 AM, David Recordon wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>> On Dec 10, 2008, at 7:42 PM, Drummond Reed wrote:
>>
>>> Scott,
>>>
>>> I second your motion to cut the three checks and then close the
>>> program.
>>>
>>> =Drummond
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: board-bounces at openid.net [mailto:board-bounces at openid.net] On
>>>> Behalf
>>>> Of Scott Kveton
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 8:20 AM
>>>> To: board at openid.net
>>>> Subject: [OpenID board] OpenID bounty awards ...
>>>>
>>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>>
>>>> We need to wrap-up the bounty program that we launched 2+ years  
>>>> ago.
>>>>
>>>> We have had several on-going requests for bounty awards and I want
>>>> to
>>>> get an answer to the folks asking.  I'd also like to use this as a
>>>> chance to close out the bounty program.
>>>>
>>>> The Dokeos and TwikiWiki projects have both been asking for the
>>>> awards.  At first glance, they appear to qualify so we would be
>>>> looking at a total of $10,000.  In addition over the last six  
>>>> months
>>>> we've also had the Joomla folks inquire about potential bounty  
>>>> award
>>>> (and appear to qualify as well):
>>>>
>>>> Dokeos: http://www.dokeos.com/
>>>> TwikiWiki: http://twiki.org/
>>>> Joomla: http://joomla.org
>>>>
>>>> Originally we were paying out the bounties on a pay-as-you-go  
>>>> basis.
>>>> That means each of the companies that offered up money for the
>>>> bounty
>>>> would do so as they were awarded.  I can invoice each of the
>>>> companies
>>>> again or we can just cut 3 x $5000 checks to each of the qualifying
>>>> projects and then do a blog post that would announce the awards and
>>>> then close out the bounty program (with a total of 6 winners over
>>>> the
>>>> life of the program).
>>>>
>>>> In the interest of getting a definitive answer for the projects  
>>>> that
>>>> are asking, I'm going to make a motion:
>>>>
>>>> The OIDF will pay out $5000 open source code bounties to Dokeos,
>>>> TwikiWiki and Joomla and do the associated PR/blog post to close  
>>>> out
>>>> the bounty program.
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> - Scott
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