[OpenID board] OpenID Update: Orientation Briefing Feedback

Fri Jan 15 19:42:53 UTC 2010

Thanks David, great idea.  Highly encourage everyone to look at David's document and provide your feedback.

Cheers,

Brian
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From: openid-board-bounces at lists.openid.net [mailto:openid-board-bounces at lists.openid.net] On Behalf Of David Recordon
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 1:35 AM
To: openid-board at lists.openid.net
Subject: Re: [OpenID board] OpenID Update: Orientation Briefing Feedback

I think better when analyzing proposals.  So put together http://wiki.openid.net/2010-Planning which lists the officer roles we need to fill and a stab at the various Committees and chairs (based off of this thread Don's deck).
It's a wiki, please be editing!

--David

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com<mailto:chris.messina at gmail.com>> wrote:
It would seem that renaming Marketing to Adoption might be a prudent move, if it also brings with it certain criteria for success and metrics to help gauge progress.

I think that the "Marketing" committee was ill-defined and had weak support - especially from a branding perspective where there is still no agreement on how important OpenID is a consumer brand.

As such, I can see how the first priority should be Adoption, which could include pushing for the test suite and improving the libraries, which would be followed by a more rigorous marketing approach.

Otherwise, I agree with focusing on committees, but I also think that we need to come up with a better approach to encourage progress within the committees, and for them to report their progress on the openid.net<http://openid.net> website and lists. I think we've done a poor job communicating with the outside world what is going on with OpenID - and participation on these lists alone does not suffice.

Chris

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 8:55 PM, David Recordon <recordond at gmail.com<mailto:recordond at gmail.com>> wrote:
Yes, which is why one of our Committees must be directly focused on
making RPs successful.  We need to disband our current Marketing
Committee - it hasn't done anything - and create appropriate
Committees with clear goals and leaders.

--David

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Allen Tom <atom at yahoo-inc.com<mailto:atom at yahoo-inc.com>> wrote:
> Given that adoption depends on RPs actually adopting OpenID, I think it's
> important that we visibly demonstrate to the community that RPs (or at least
> potential RPs) have a voice.
>
> Allen
>
>
> On 1/14/10 7:23 PM, "David Recordon" <recordond at gmail.com<mailto:recordond at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> 2010 is the year where we must work on developing OpenID as a product beyond
> just a technology.  That said, I don't think that extending the Executive
> Committee with another appointed liaison role is the correct approach.
>
> This year we must also push work out from the Board into Committees.  This
> both broadens the pool of people who can directly become involved and forces
> us as an organization to increase the value for non-sustaining members.
>
> I believe that the Executive Committee should be chartered to either:
> 1) remain small (no more than five) and perform the execution work not done
> in the Committees themselves, or
> 2) be made up of the Officers (president, vice president, secretary,
> and treasurer) and the chair of each Committee to focus on tackling
> execution issues across the organization as a whole.
>
> I am supportive of being more formulaic to the organizations leadership
> structure.
>
> --David
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Brian Kissel <bkissel at janrain.com<mailto:bkissel at janrain.com>> wrote:
>
> Well, I guess I didn't wait ;-)  As I said on the call yesterday, I think
> Daniel's idea is a good one.  We added the technical and international
> liaison roles to ensure we had sufficient breadth of perspective at the
> executive committee working level, and I think it served us well in 2009.
> Given that we really want to continue to drive adoption and usage in 2010,
> having a representative on the EC that brings the "voice of the customer" is
> a good thing.  We have some new board members that bring that viewpoint and
> it would be great to make the most of this in the coming year.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian
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> Brian Kissel <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/10/254>
> CEO - JanRain, Inc.
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> Mobile: 503.342.2668 | Fax: 503.296.5502
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>
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> From: openid-board-bounces at lists.openid.net<mailto:openid-board-bounces at lists.openid.net>
> [mailto:openid-board-bounces at lists.openid.net<mailto:openid-board-bounces at lists.openid.net>] On Behalf Of Brian Kissel
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> To: openid-board at lists.openid.net<mailto:openid-board at lists.openid.net>
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>
>
> Thanks Don, I'll wait a bit to see how others respond before putting in my
> +1
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian
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>
> Brian Kissel <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/10/254>
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> Mobile: 503.342.2668 | Fax: 503.296.5502
>
> Increase registrations, engage users, and grow your brand with RPX.  Learn
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>
> From: openid-board-bounces at lists.openid.net<mailto:openid-board-bounces at lists.openid.net>
> [mailto:openid-board-bounces at lists.openid.net<mailto:openid-board-bounces at lists.openid.net>] On Behalf Of Don Thibeau
> (OIDF ED)
> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 5:58 PM
> To: openid-board at lists.openid.net<mailto:openid-board at lists.openid.net>
> Cc: 'Daniel Jacobson'
> Subject: [OpenID board] OpenID Update: Orientation Briefing Feedback
>
> OIDF Board Members
> Yesterday the new members of the OpenID Board of Directors received an
> orientation briefing on many of the plans and priorities we will discuss on
> our first meeting Jan 20th. While not an official meeting, the agenda
> previewed some of key issues the new board will consider as well as info for
> our budget development and committee process for 2010.  The relevant content
> from the orientation briefing will be updated and included as part of the
> background material for the teleconference on the 20th.
>
> For your information:
> One of the suggestions that came out of that discussion was a suggestion
> from Daniel Jacobson that the views of relying parties can be best
> represented by the addition of a liaison on the executive committee.  It was
> suggested that this new role be similar to that of the international and
> technical community liaison positions. These "non officer" positions are
> part of the executive committee by virtue of board convention established
> last year rather than OIDF by laws.
>
> Board Action Item:
> Please let me know if you are unable to make the teleconference on the 20th
> and, if desired, to whom you designate as your proxy.
>
> Don Thibeau
> don at OIDF.org
> Executive Director
> The OpenID Foundation
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