Rather than do it this way, why don't we simply start an open nomination process (i.e., not nominations made by the board) and schedule a real community election, as voted in by the members?<br><br>-DeWitt<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Drummond Reed <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drummond.reed@cordance.net">drummond.reed@cordance.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<a href="mailto:board-bounces@openid.net" target="_blank">board-bounces@openid.net</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:board-bounces@openid.net" target="_blank">board-bounces@openid.net</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>David Recordon<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, November 04, 2008
9:42 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:board@openid.net" target="_blank">board@openid.net</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OpenID board]
URGENT: New Board members motion</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If we're in nomination mode, then I'd also like to nominate Snorri to
join as a community board member (if he is willing to accept that nomination).
Snorri has done amazing community work internationally which should be
directly supported by the Foundation.</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On Nov 4, 2008, at 11:38 AM, Drummond Reed wrote:</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">+1 to all Brian's points here. I want to
clarify again that my objection last week was not to moving forward on this – I
am very supportive of adding additional corporate board members immediately --
it was only to the difficulty of closing what turned out to be a contentious
issue via an email vote.</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I am all for holding a vote this week if
we want to call a meeting. Worst case we could hold the vote at the BOD meeting
next Monday afternoon at IIW. (Have we set an exact time/location for that
meeting? Will there be dial-in so all board members can participate if they are
not at IIW in person?)</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Also, in terms of community board members,
I would like to nominate Brian Kissel to join as a community board member (if
he is willing to accept that nomination). I'd move for that vote to be held at
the same time so he could join the board at the same time as the new corporate
board members.</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"></span></font></p>
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<p><b><font color="black" size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><span><font color="black" size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black;"> </span></font></span><font color="black" size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black;"><a href="mailto:board-bounces@openid.net" target="_blank">board-bounces@openid.net</a>
[<a href="mailto:board-bounces@openid.net" target="_blank">mailto:board-bounces@openid.net</a>]<span> </span><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On
Behalf Of<span> </span></span></b>Brian Kissel<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b><span> </span>Monday, November 03, 2008 4:47 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b><span> </span><a href="mailto:board@openid.net" target="_blank">board@openid.net</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b><span> </span>Re: [OpenID board] URGENT: New Board
members motion</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="#1f497d" size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">+1 with Dick on
additional corporate members. I've had conversations with BBC (Zac
Bjelogrlic, Dirk-willem Van.gulik ) and PayPal (Andrew Nash) and know that both
organizations would both like to join. I don't know who else in on the
list of possible new members, but if we have up to 5 corporate spots to fill
and these two firms are willing to make a commitment of time and dollars, I
think we should not delay. </span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="#1f497d" size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">BBC has already
shown their leadership by hosting the Content Provider Advisory Committee
meeting in NYC several weeks ago. They've also OpenID enabled RadioPop
and are looking at additional properties to roll out. They've offered to
work with NPR (who was also at the NYC session) to see if we can get BBC, NPR,
PBS, and CBC to collaborate on OpenID enablement initiatives. And in any
case, we need some large representative RPs on the BOD. As I've said
before, I think media companies are a next logical adopter of OpenID, so would
welcome BBC's membership. </span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="#1f497d" size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">PayPal would also be
great because they have a lot of experience in managing phishing and general
security infrastructure and represent the perspective of merchants and payment
infrastructure providers, which we need represented on the BOD if we want to
continue to expand the applicability and value of OpenID beyond user generated
content access.</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="#1f497d" size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I don't know if
these are the companies we're thinking about voting on near term, but if so, I
would strongly endorse their membership. I also agree with Dick that
getting the funding commitment from these two companies in uncertain financial
times is critical and will actually help with hiring the new ED and coming up
with a reasonable budget for the various initiatives we'll want to undertake in
2009. For those that didn't see Nat Sakimura's announcement about<span> </span><a href="http://openid.net/2008/11/03/openid-japan-launches-with-32-member-companies/" target="_blank">OpenID
Japan</a>, they are making great progress and we need to have equally
compelling aspirations.</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="#1f497d" size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">With respect to
community membership, JanRain would certainly welcome the opportunity to
contribute as a BOD member, but we'll continue to participate via my membership
on the Marketing and Customer Research Committee regardless.</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"></span></font></p>
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We are working with Research Media to get the OpenID membership polling
solution working this week and the BOD election system working next
week. Regardless of that, I don't think we should wait on the BOD
vote the two additional corporate members.</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="#1f497d" size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">There is a lot of
good buzz going on right now with the Microsoft and Google announcements.
If we could also announce these two new corporate BOD members at IIW, that we
can continue to build on that momentum.</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="#1f497d" size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">So, IMHO, we should
do the vote on the 2 additional corporate sponsors right now (assuming they are
still willing) and finalize them this week. If we want to wait on
community members, that's fine with me.</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; color: navy;">Cheers,</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"></span></font></p>
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Brian</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"></span></font></p>
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<p><b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; color: navy; font-weight: bold;">Brian
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<p><b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; color: navy; font-weight: bold;">Cell:
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<p><b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; color: navy; font-weight: bold;">Fax:
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[<a href="mailto:board-bounces@openid.net" target="_blank">mailto:board-bounces@openid.net</a>]<span> </span><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On
Behalf Of<span> </span></span></b>Dick Hardt<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b><span> </span>Monday, November 03, 2008 3:54 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b><span> </span><a href="mailto:board@openid.net" target="_blank">board@openid.net</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b><span> </span>Re: [OpenID board] URGENT: New Board
members motion</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">I don't see any advantage to the coupling
of hiring an ED and bringing on new board members. Any ED is going to look at
the risk of getting paid. Bringing in money before hand is a good sign. In the
current economic climate, making a donation to a Foundation is going to come
under increased scrutiny.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The bylaws allow the board to appoint
temporary community board members as need be -- something we would want to do
in case someone needs to resign for some reason.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Only bringing on corporate members one at
elections does not serve us well. We have a product, which is membership, and
we should remove barriers to selling it rather then raising it -- and requiring
the timing to coincide with an election does not serve anyone well -- except
those that want to make board membership exclusive.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">On 24-Oct-08, at 6:49 PM, DeWitt Clinton
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<p><font color="black" size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Sort of. I think we should have
finished the discussion about how to proceed with a full five new corporate
board members, timed that around the hiring of the new ED, and ideally
scheduled all of it around the election of new community members. With
those three pieces in place we then could make a coordinated engagement on all
three. Four pieces, in fact, as we can count the CRC in there as well.<br>
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I share your frustration, Dick, and I agree that sometimes a vote makes a good
forcing function. It's taken far too long to get where we are, and I
happen to concur that those were fine nominees. And I especially welcome
Brian's continued leadership in any case.<br>
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Hopefully this is the kick in the pants we need to close in expediently on the
missing pieces. And then I'd welcome seeing this come up for a vote again
in the near future.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Hardt <<a href="mailto:dick.hardt@gmail.com" target="_blank">dick.hardt@gmail.com</a>>
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agreed to withdraw it until after the membership committee report was
published, and then we could do the vote over email. Agreed that the vote
should have been started on the public list -- but we are here now.</span></font></p>
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nominees on the board that you would support that we could act upon?</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">This is not a vote against any of the
nominees, but procedurally and organizationally we can do better than
this. Hence to the motion as it stands at this time:<br>
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<p><font color="black" size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Raj Mata
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<p><font color="black" size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">-1.<br>
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Agree with Gary.<br>
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<p><font color="black" size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Behalf Of Krall, Gary<br>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:42 PM<br>
To:<span> </span><a href="mailto:board@openid.net" target="_blank">board@openid.net</a></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Subject: Re: [OpenID board] URGENT: New
Board members motion<br>
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-1.<br>
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As we are actively in the process of recruiting for a Executive Director<br>
which my understanding is should complete shortly coupled; with the<br>
manner in which this vote has been requested/handled is a clear<br>
indication to me that adding any additional members at this time would<br>
not be prudent.<br>
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Gary.<br>
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From:<span> </span><a href="mailto:board-bounces@openid.net" target="_blank">board-bounces@openid.net</a><span> </span>[mailto:<a href="mailto:board-bounces@openid.net" target="_blank">board-bounces@openid.net</a>]On<br>
Behalf Of Dick Hardt<br>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:48 AM<br>
To:<span> </span><a href="mailto:board@openid.net" target="_blank">board@openid.net</a><br>
Subject: [OpenID board] URGENT: New Board members motion<br>
Importance: High<br>
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(this motion was originally posted on the board-private list to<br>
protect the confidentiality of the potential corporate board members<br>
-- reposting to public list to provide transparency to community)<br>
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Background:<br>
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There are two corporations that have expressed interest in joining the<br>
OpenID Foundation for the last six months. The board approved adding 5<br>
new corporate board seats, to be balanced with community seats so that<br>
the community seats have a majority.<br>
Brian Kissel has been active on the marketing committee and the<br>
customer research committee. He organized a gathering of content<br>
providers in NY that led to the OpoenID UX summit last Monday.<br>
The primary source of funding for the Foundation is corporate board<br>
seats. In order to fund a new Executive Director and OpenID adoption<br>
initiatives, we need more funding. The patience of the two<br>
corporations is running thin as they have been waiting for far to long<br>
for a decision from the board.<br>
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The motion: Add the two corporate board seats and add Brian Kissel as<br>
the community seat. Brian's seat (like all other community board<br>
seats) would be up for re-election when we hold an election.<br>
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All board members need to vote or abstain for the motion to be<br>
considered.<br>
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Votes to date:<br>
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+1 Dick Hardt (made motion)<br>
+1 Martin Atkins (seconded motion)<br>
-1 David Recordon<br>
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