[OpenID board] Unable to authenticate, therefore unable to nominate myself

Mike Jones Michael.Jones at microsoft.com
Tue Nov 30 04:00:07 UTC 2010


I've been trying to stay out of this because I'm a candidate but in the interest of clarity, mostly as a past election committee chair, I'm going to communicate only facts and then entirely recurse myself from any involvement in decisions made by the foundation based upon those facts.  As the past elections committee chair for the previous two elections, upon which this year's election's procedures were based, I do have some authoritative knowledge of the facts below.

Don's election announcement sent to the OpenID general list on November 9th with the subject line "OIDF Board Election Announcement" contained the following text:
Nominations open:  Monday, November 15
Nominations close:  Monday, November 29

Times for all dates are Noon, U.S. Pacific Time.

Thus, for this election, nominations opened at Noon Pacific Time on Monday, November 15th and closed at Noon Pacific Time on Monday, November 29th.  The election tool enforces the dates and times entered.  The Noon Pacific time starting and ending times were used for the 2008 and 2009 elections as well.

Those are the facts as I understand them.

                                                            -- Mike

From: openid-board-bounces at lists.openid.net [mailto:openid-board-bounces at lists.openid.net] On Behalf Of Joseph Smarr
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 7:40 PM
To: openid-board at lists.openid.net
Cc: OpenID Board (public)
Subject: Re: [OpenID board] Unable to authenticate, therefore unable to nominate myself

I was planning to nominate myself for the board tonight (was busy with family over the weekend), but the UI to nominate myself has gone away. I thought today (11/29) was the last day to nominate myself. Is that GMT or something weird? Or was it "11/29" meaning "11/28 11:59p"?

I'd really like to nominate myself, and I don't think blocking that on a poorly communicated technicality is in the best interest of the foundation. :) Can somebody fix things and/or let me know how nominate myself?

Thanks, js
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com<mailto:chris.messina at gmail.com>> wrote:

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:10 PM, John Bradley <ve7jtb at ve7jtb.com<mailto:ve7jtb at ve7jtb.com>> wrote:
I seem to recall that the web site is using UTC for running ballots etc.   I suppose that we had to pick a timezone and that is as good as any.

Though it would be a problem if you leave things to less than 8h to the deadline by west coast time.

I am concerned about Chris not being able to get in.   I didn't have a problem,  but I am not using a delegated openID.

I will see if I can replicate the problem.

Chris, did this just start,  or haven't you logged in for a while?

This started recently - and I may have had problems before which were addressed. I'm guessing it has to do with RPX's approach to discovering delegation on my site.

Here's a screencast of my experience:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18443/openid-fail.mov

FWIW, I'm able to login to disqus.net<http://disqus.net> using my OpenID (factoryjoe.com<http://factoryjoe.com>) without issue.

Chris


John B.

On 2010-11-29, at 7:34 PM, Dick Hardt wrote:


I just logged onto the site to self nominate, and I don't see the button/link there anymore. It is still the 11/29th is it not?

btw: I was able to login fine

-- Dick


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 Chris Messina
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 3:52 PM
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Subject: [OpenID board] Unable to authenticate, therefore unable to nominate myself

I've been trying to authenticate on the foundation member site for the past two days and have had no luck. I've been in touch with both Janrain and Darin from Refresh to no avail. If I'm not the only one unable to authenticate with my delegated OpenID, I wonder who else has been unable to self-nominate themselves for the election?

This seems like a serious issue with our election proceedings.

Advise?

Chris

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