[OpenID board] OpenID Foundation and Japan
Nat Sakimura
n-sakimura at nri.co.jp
Thu Feb 14 03:21:21 UTC 2008
Hi All:
If we are to do the press conference on the 28th,
you have to give a go by the end of your Thursday, this week.
Hopefully, you would :-)
Please contact me at any time if you need. I will try to be online on
Skype as well: nat_sakimura is my skype id.
Also, I am including our press guy, Mr. Uchiyama, in the distributin list.
Regards,
Nat
Drummond Reed wrote:
> +1. This model should scale well.
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> =Drummond
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> *From:* board-bounces at openid.net [mailto:board-bounces at openid.net] *On
> Behalf Of *Mike Jones
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:52 AM
> *To:* board at openid.net; Nat Sakimura
> *Cc:* Ishikawa, Kazuya; Kentaro Sakamoto; david at sixapart.com; Bill
> Washburn; Nobuhiro Seki
> *Subject:* Re: [OpenID board] OpenID Foundation and Japan
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> I'll also endorse the local chapters idea, as that has worked well for
> USENIX's SAGE class of members, for instance. I would oppose creating
> separate legal entities for chapters for a lot of the reasons already
> stated in this thread, but it sounds like the consensus is already to go
> with a chapters model, with all the members worldwide being members of OIDF.
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> From experience, I'll say too that the value a local chapters is almost
> directly proportional to the energy that the chapter coordinator(s) put
> into it. So the key thing is to find people with drive, organizational
> skills, and time to make these happen.
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> Cheers,
>
> -- Mike
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> *From:* board-bounces at openid.net [mailto:board-bounces at openid.net] *On
> Behalf Of *Bill Washburn
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:58 AM
> *To:* Nat Sakimura; board at openid.net
> *Cc:* Ishikawa, Kazuya; Kentaro Sakamoto; Nobuhiro Seki;
> david at sixapart.com; Bill Washburn
> *Subject:* Re: [OpenID board] OpenID Foundation and Japan
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> Hi Nat,
>
> Thanks for this report. An excellent beginning, it seems clear. I
> realize that very likely we might do well to start considering a few
> regional chapters in North America this year:
> Silicon Valley/San Francisco Bay Area,
> Portland/Seattle/Vancouver,
> Oklahoma/Texas
> Boston/New York/Washington, D.C.
> ???
>
> okay, it's getting late...
>
> cheers,
> -bill
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Nat Sakimura <n-sakimura at nri.co.jp>
> To: "board at openid.net" <board at openid.net>; Bill Washburn
> <billhwashburn at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Kentaro Sakamoto <k-sakamoto at verisign.co.jp>; "Krall, Gary"
> <gkrall at verisign.com>; "david at sixapart.com" <david at sixapart.com>;
> "Ishikawa, Kazuya" <k-ishikawa at verisign.co.jp>; Nobuhiro Seki
> <nseki at sixapart.jp>
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 9:36:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [OpenID board] OpenID Foundation and Japan
>
> All-
>
> We had a very productive meeting this morning in Tokyo, with Seki-san of
> SixApart, Sakamoto-san and Ishikawa-san of Verisign Japan and myself
> (from Nomura Research Institute, and XDI.ORG <http://XDI.ORG>).
>
> Among other things, here are our concensus:
>
> 1. Japanese organization should start as the Japan Chapter of OpenID
> Foundation.
> (i.e., no legal entity but a virtual chapter of OIDF as Seki-san
> suggested in
> the previous mail.). Thus, to join Japan Chapter, it has to be a
> member of
> OIDF, thus policies around IPR, trademark, membership, etc would also
> apply to
> them.
>
> Its primary purpose includes:
> - Promotion of OpenID in Japan through:
> - Preparation of Japanese translation of the SPECs.
> - Preparation of Introductory Materials to End users explaining
> - How to use OpenID
> - Why using OpenID is good.
> - Establishing working groups to discuss issues including
> Japanese specific ones.
> - Press Relations
> - Feedback to OpenID Foundation on the findings and requests from
> Japanese market.
>
> 2. We should target at annoucing it on Feb.28, when David comes to Japan.
> Outline of the proposed announcement is being prepared right now.
>
> 3. For this to happen, obviously, we need OpenID Foundation's endorsment.
> Also, OIDF's assistance to encourage Japanese entities of those
> Corporate Board
> comapnies to join Japan Chapter is sought.
>
> 4. In pararell to 3. , we start recruiting the Japanese members.
>
> Bill, if the boards are ok with these, could you kindly follow up
> especially with
> item 3. above, please?
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nat Sakimura (=nat)
> http://www.sakimura.org/en/
>
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