On the wiki:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openid.net/2009-01-21-ec-meeting-notes">https://wiki.openid.net/2009-01-21-ec-meeting-notes</a><br><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Mike Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Michael.Jones@microsoft.com">Michael.Jones@microsoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b>January
21, 2009 OpenID Executive Committee Call Minutes</b></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b>Present:</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Brian Kissel</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">David
Recordon</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Mike Jones</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Raj Mata</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b>Absent:</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Scott Kveton</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b>Visiting:</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Nat Sakimura</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b>Items
Covered on the Call</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in"><b><span>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></b><b>Treasurer's
update from Raj</b></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in"><b><span>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></b><b>Sustaining
member dues w.r.t. 2009 budget</b></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in"><b><span>3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></b><b>Interim
ED hiring update from Brian</b></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Brian plans a board vote to give the hiring committee
authority to negotiate and make an offer.</p>
<p style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in"><b><span>4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></b><b>Changing
the online voting period</b></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in"><b><span>5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></b><b>RSA
pre-conference opportunity</b></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in"><b><span>6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></b><b>Announcing
PayPal and EC elections – blog, press release, other?</b></p>
<p>A draft blog post has been written. The announcement
is blocked pending materials from PayPal.</p>
<p style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in"><b><span>7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></b><b>Inventures
contract</b></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in"><b><span>8.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></b><b>International
Liaison EC position – Nat or Snorri</b></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in"><b><span>9.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></b><b>Board
voting tool for Nat's spec process improvement recommendations</b></p>
<p>Nat will send the final versions of the motions to Brian,
who will post them in the voting tool.</p>
<p>On a specs council call with the CX proposers, David decided
that there were no longer issues with the proposal.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in"><b><span>10.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></b><b>Security
Committee Update</b></p>
<p>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.</p>
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