[OpenID board] Minutes from January 21, 2009 OpenID Executive Committee Call

[Chris Messina]

On the wiki:
https://wiki.openid.net/2009-01-21-ec-meeting-notes

Chris

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Mike Jones <Michael.Jones at microsoft.com>wrote:

>  *January 21, 2009 OpenID Executive Committee Call Minutes*
>
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> *Present:*
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> Brian Kissel
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> David Recordon
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> Mike Jones
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> Raj Mata
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>
> *Absent:*
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> Scott Kveton
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> *Visiting:*
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> Nat Sakimura
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> *Items Covered on the Call*
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> *1.       **Treasurer's update from Raj*
>
> Raj has been unable to obtain contact information or current account
> balances from Bill Washburn.  We are considering having one or more of the
> Bay Area board members go to his house to try to pick up the information.
>
> *2.       **Sustaining member dues w.r.t. 2009 budget*
>
> A discussion was held about what the sustaining member's dues will be going
> forward.  One member recalled a conversation about possibly lowering it from
> $50,000.    Another had no expectation of the dues being lowered, and that
> has been told to new members as well.  Brian took an action item to talk to
> the other sustaining members.
>
> *3.       **Interim ED hiring update from Brian*
>
> All 3 candidates have been interviewed by all four committee members and an
> outside third party.  There were two qualified candidates.  We have selected
> a front-runner, who has not yet been told that he is the first choice.
> Brian is continuing to investigate relevant background issues.
>
> Brian plans a board vote to give the hiring committee authority to
> negotiate and make an offer.
>
> *4.       **Changing the online voting period*
>
> We agreed that a 7 day notification period and 7 day voting period is too
> long for routine matters.  Brian will have a board vote to shorten these to
> 3 weekdays each for routine matters.
>
> *5.       **RSA pre-conference opportunity*
>
> There was consensus by the marketing committee to spend $1K for a demo
> booth, which the EC affirms.  Without a budget and marketing plan we agreed
> not to spend more at this time.  There was an agreement that we should try
> to do something else with Liberty and the ICF, but possibly in a forum more
> closely matching our target audience.  Brian will communicate this to Britta
> Glade and Charles Andres, as well as highlighting our funding of the OSIS
> OpenID interop tests that John Bradley is developing that will be presented
> at the event.
>
> *6.       **Announcing PayPal and EC elections – blog, press release,
> other?*
>
> A draft blog post has been written.  The announcement is blocked pending
> materials from PayPal.
>
> *7.       **Inventures contract*
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> We are exploring having Inventures help supplement the interim executive
> director's activities and to help conduct the search for the full-time
> executive director.
>
> *8.       **International Liaison EC position – Nat or Snorri*
>
> This position has been approved.  Nat has stated his willingness to serve.
> Snorri has been out of communication due to family issues.  We agreed to
> hold a vote in 7 days and if Snorri has not responded by then, we'll skip
> the vote, since there would only be one candidate.
>
> *9.       **Board voting tool for Nat's spec process improvement
> recommendations*
>
> Nat will send the final versions of the motions to Brian, who will post
> them in the voting tool.
>
> On a specs council call with the CX proposers, David decided that there
> were no longer issues with the proposal.
>
> David took an action item to contact the specs council members and find out
> which plan to actively participate, so new members can be chosen to replace
> any who do not plan to be active.
>
> *10.   **Security Committee Update*
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> Scott was not on the call, so could not report.  There was a consensus that
> should Tony not become active as chair soon, that a new chair should be
> chosen.
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