I think we should post it to the "News&Events" section of the <a href="http://openid.net">openid.net</a> top page. <div><br></div><div>=nat<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Chris Messina <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.messina@gmail.com">chris.messina@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>So noted. </div><div><br></div><div>Modifying PDFs quickly and easily on the web has yet to become "web friendly", so that's what I was referring to. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm not sure that WordPress or PBWorks indexes Word or PDFs, so that's the other part of what I was referring to. </div><div><br></div><div>Chris <br><br>Sent from my iPhone 2G</div><div><div></div>
<div class="h5"><div><br>On Dec 8, 2009, at 15:41, Mike Jones <<a href="mailto:Michael.Jones@microsoft.com" target="_blank">Michael.Jones@microsoft.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">For what it’s worth, PDF hasn’t been a proprietary format
since July 2008, when it was published as ISO Standard ISO/IEC 32000-1:2008.
Anyone can write to it and read it now. And last I checked, both Google and
Bing index PDF files.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Given PDF is an open standard and indexed by search engines, I’m
not sure in what sense you’re asserting that PDF is not “web-friendly”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> --
Mike</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:openid-board-bounces@lists.openid.net" target="_blank">openid-board-bounces@lists.openid.net</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:openid-board-bounces@lists.openid.net" target="_blank">openid-board-bounces@lists.openid.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris
Messina<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 08, 2009 3:26 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:openid-board@lists.openid.net" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:openid-board@lists.openid.net" target="_blank">openid-board@lists.openid.net</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Darin Richardson; Don Thibeau<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OpenID board] Election nomination report</span></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Oh. It's a PDF. Hrm.</p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Well, in the interest of open technologies and searchable
data, here's the same information in a web-friendly format:</p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">http://<span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://wiki.openid.net/Elections" target="_blank"><span style="color:#114170">wiki.openid.net/Elections</span></a></span></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span><span>Chris</span></span></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:02 PM, John Ehrig <<a href="mailto:jehrig@inventures.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:jehrig@inventures.com" target="_blank">jehrig@inventures.com</a>> wrote:</p>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">A FAQ has
been posted since the announcement about the election at </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy"><a href="http://openid.net/wordpress-content/uploads/2009/11/OpenID-Foundation-2010-Election-Procedures-FAQ-Final.pdf" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://openid.net/wordpress-content/uploads/2009/11/OpenID-Foundation-2010-Election-Procedures-FAQ-Final.pdf" target="_blank">http://openid.net/wordpress-content/uploads/2009/11/OpenID-Foundation-2010-Election-Procedures-FAQ-Final.pdf</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy"> </span></p>
<div>
<div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<hr size="2" width="100%" align="center">
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> Brian Kissel
[mailto:<a href="mailto:bkissel@janrain.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:bkissel@janrain.com" target="_blank">bkissel@janrain.com</a>]
<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 08, 2009 12:03 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:openid-board@lists.openid.net" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:openid-board@lists.openid.net" target="_blank">openid-board@lists.openid.net</a>;
John Ehrig; Don Thibeau<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Darin Richardson<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [OpenID board] Election nomination report</span></p>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">I
think Mike Jones is the keeper of the guidelines on how the process works, but
as I understand it the top vote recipients have 2 year terms, and the next
group gets one year terms. So in this election, 3 get 2 year terms and 3
get one year terms. Others are kept on the list in the event someone
resigns or more are needed if we add more corporate members.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Good
idea to post a FAQ. John, is this something you can do?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy">Cheers,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
Brian</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy">___________</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/10/254" target="_blank">Brian Kissel</a></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy">CEO,
JanRain - </span></b><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#333399">WebID and Social Publishing for User Engagement</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy">Email</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy">: <a href="mailto:bkissel@janrain.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:navy">bkissel@janrain.com</span></a>
<b>Cell</b>: 503.866.4424 <b>Fax</b>: 503.296.5502</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:openid-board-bounces@lists.openid.net" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:openid-board-bounces@lists.openid.net" target="_blank">openid-board-bounces@lists.openid.net</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:openid-board-bounces@lists.openid.net" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:openid-board-bounces@lists.openid.net" target="_blank">openid-board-bounces@lists.openid.net</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris Messina<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 08, 2009 11:51 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:openid-board@lists.openid.net" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:openid-board@lists.openid.net" target="_blank">openid-board@lists.openid.net</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Darin Richardson<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OpenID board] Election nomination report</span></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Is
information on voting readily available? </p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">I
feel like we should set up <a href="http://wiki.openid.net/Elections" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://wiki.openid.net/Elections" target="_blank">wiki.openid.net/Elections</a> to help bring a lot of this
information together... </p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">What
it our outreach strategy for getting people to vote? Who is eligible to vote?</p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">I
think we'll need to work with Darin again to send out an email to the
membership to let them know that voting begins tomorrow!</p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">And,
what determines who wins? Simple majority? How do we handle ties? Etc. I'm sure
there's information about this in the bylaws, but a simple FAQ would be very
useful.</p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Chris</p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">On
Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Mike Jones <<a href="mailto:Michael.Jones@microsoft.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:Michael.Jones@microsoft.com" target="_blank">Michael.Jones@microsoft.com</a>>
wrote:</p>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Of
the 16 candidates who self-nominated to run for the six open community OpenID
Foundation board seats, 14 received the required three seconds from other
members. These candidates are:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Dirk Balfanz</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">John Bradley</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Jonathan Coffman</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Marc Frons</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Dick Hardt</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Robert Harles</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Daniel Jacobson</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Brian Kissel</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Robert Ott</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Martin Paljak</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Joseph Smarr</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Allen Tom</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Kick Willemse</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Björn Woltermann</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Two
candidates did not receive the three required seconds, and therefore are
ineligible to stand for election:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Brady Brim-DeForest</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Hari Chand Gupta</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Voting
will commence on December 9<sup>th</sup> and end on December 23<sup>rd</sup>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
-- Mike (writing as election committee chairman)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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