[OpenID board] OpenID Foundation and Japan

[Drummond Reed]

Scott, given the urgency, can we add this to the agenda for tomorrow?

=Drummond

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nat Sakimura [mailto:n-sakimura at nri.co.jp]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 7:21 PM
> To: Drummond Reed
> Cc: board at openid.net; 'Ishikawa, Kazuya'; 'Kentaro Sakamoto';
> david at sixapart.com; 'Bill Washburn'; 'Nobuhiro Seki'; "N.Uchiyama（NRI）"
> Subject: Re: [OpenID board] OpenID Foundation and Japan
>
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > =Drummond
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > *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
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >  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.
> >
> >
> >
> >                                                 Cheers,
> >
> >                                                 -- Mike
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > *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
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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