[OpenID board] First board meeting of 2009 ...

Tue Jan 6 08:15:11 UTC 2009

You can find the last set of approved bylaws at http://openid.net/wordpress-content/uploads/2008/11/adopted-bylaws-openid-foundation-june-2007.pdf.  Unfortunately, they're so old as to not even discuss the addition of the new corporate board members.  (Updating to bylaws to match the reality of the decisions made by the board in the last year-and-a-half is one of the things that just plain didn't happen during this board's tenure.)

As for being one board, we clarified this point by a vote of the board on April 24th, 2008.  The minutes record this motion passing unanimously:

Motion 1: Henceforward, all votes about any matters affecting OIDF and its board will be open to all board members.
As per normal ethical conduct guidelines, individual board members are expected to recuse themselves in cases of conflicts of interest.

While the text of the motion only talks about votes, the spirit of what we clarifying with the motion was best summed up in David Recordon's message of April 21st, 2008:  "+1 to Mike's motion.  We're one board. :)".

Other than that they are selected via different mechanisms and that there must always be at least one more community corporate board member than corporate board member, there's no difference in the rights and responsibilities of the two kinds of board members.

To make this concrete, I believe that it would benefit the foundation if I were elected to one of the officer positions -- possibly Vice-President, but would be open to other possibilities.  The reason that I believe you want me as an officer is that I have a strong, demonstrated track record of getting things done for the foundation.  Those things include (in roughly reverse chronological order) chairing the elections committee (which brought you the recent election), starting and co-chairing the PAPE working group (demonstrating that the IPR policy works and producing a useful spec), serving on the specs council and trying to get it to respond in a timely fashion (still a work in progress), co-chairing the local chapters committee (which brought you the approved local chapters policy), and shepherding the process of writing and getting approval for the IPR policy and procedures.

				Best wishes,
				-- Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: board-bounces at openid.net [mailto:board-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of chris.messina at gmail.com
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 2:58 PM
To: Raj Mata
Cc: board at openid.net; =nat
Subject: Re: [OpenID board] First board meeting of 2009 ...

Can anyone point me to the bylaws concerning corporate membership? I'd
like to understand more about the restrictions or responsibilities (if
any) placed on such memberships.

Chris

On 1/5/09, Raj Mata <rajmata at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> Just got back from vacation, and have been catching up on my emails.
>
> First of all, wish everyone a terrific 2009!
>
> Second, congratulations to the new board members (and thank you Mike for
> making the elections a reality!)
>
> Regarding this thread below, my understanding is:
>
> a) The executive committee is comprised of 5 board members (The four
> current officers called out by Scott below + a working group liaison as
> called out by Mike)
>
> b) There is no requirement or distinction between corporate or community
> members for the executive committee i.e. the executive committee could
> theoretically be all 5 community board members or all 5 corporate board
> members. Once we have a board, then it is purely a matter of picking the
> right people from the board who have the skills and bandwidth to do the
> job.
>
> Did I get that right?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Raj
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: board-bounces at openid.net [mailto:board-bounces at openid.net] On
> Behalf Of Mike Jones
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 10:04 AM
> To: board at openid.net; Chris Messina
> Cc: =nat
> Subject: Re: [OpenID board] First board meeting of 2009 ...
>
> I'm the 5th board member on the current Executive Committee -- in the
> role of liaison to the working groups.  I'm also one of two
> board-appointed members to the Specifications Council.  (The other is
> Dick Hardt.)
>
>                               -- Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: board-bounces at openid.net [mailto:board-bounces at openid.net] On
> Behalf Of Scott Kveton
> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 10:59 AM
> To: Chris Messina
> Cc: board at openid.net; =nat
> Subject: Re: [OpenID board] First board meeting of 2009 ...
>
>> The 8th is good for me as well.
>> Which officer positions are available, how do we go about picking
> them, and
>> who served them on the previous board? Are there any transition plans?
>
> All of the officer positions are available ... we have to fill and who
> is currently in them:
>
> Chair - Scott Kveton
> Vice-Chair - David Recordon
> Secretary - Martin Atkins
> Treasurer - Dick Hardt
>
> The Executive Committee is made up of these officers and one member of
> the corporate board and was put together to help execute on things
> without having the entire board involved in every decision.
>
> The transition plan should be easy enough.  Bill Washburn has cooked
> up a transition plan for the ED (once we figure out what we're doing
> there) and I've been involved in the finances enough to be able to
> help with that as well.
>
> We'll want to make sure we transition the committees appropriately ...
> I don't think there is any requirement that committees be made up or
> chaired by board members but we'll want to make sure that everything
> is taken care of.
>
> - Scott
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