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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"'>The
2010 Series of OpenID Summits has been an important investment for the OpenID
Foundation. The OpenID Summit Chicago hosted by Sears pulled together a
large group of relying parties who benefited from updates from identity
providers and focused on real world implementation issues. The OpenID Summit
Mountain View, co hosted by Microsoft and Google, organized the working groups
that are at work today. </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"'>The
OIDF extended its international reach at the OpenID Summit London and coupled it
with the European e-Identity Management Conference. The Microsoft hosted Summit
in London provided important information and encouragement to OpenID advocates
and technologists. The EU initiatives were impressive and deserving of ongoing
support and greater visibility. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:
"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"'>This
is to announce the OpenID Summit Paris on October 18 hosted by </span><span
lang=EN style='font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"'>Orange-FT at
their Issy les Moulineaux campus in Southern Paris. </span><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"'>This is another key outreach
opportunity for the foundation and a chance for developers, identity providers
and relying parties to exchange information. Nat Sakimura and John
Bradley have agreed to be the co-organizers. Like the London event, the
Paris Summit is coupled with </span><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"'>the
third Kantara Initiative Meeting, Tuesday-Thursday, October 19-21.<b><a
href="http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticle=&articleID=152291128&gid=1939486&type=news&item=152291128&articleURL=http%3A%2F%2Fkantarainitiative%2Eorg%2Fwordpress%2F2010%2F07%2Fkantara-initiative-meeting-october-19-21-2010-at-orange-ft-campus-paris-france%2F&urlhash=oi4Q&goback=%2Egde_1939486_news_152291128"
target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext'>Kantara Initiative Meeting,
October 19-21, 2010 at Orange-FT campus, Paris, France</span></a></b></span><b><span
style='font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"'> </span></b><span
style='font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"'>We hope the discussions
at the OpenID Summit will benefit marketing and technical teams at Orange and
attendees at the Kantara event by providing updates on various working groups
and a review of significant OpenID deployments. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"'>Thanks
in advance to our friends at Orange and to Nat and John for their leadership. I
encourage all OIDF community and corporate members to commit early to
presentations and use this opportunity to extend the adoption and technology working
groups’ discussions to our colleagues in the UK and EU. The updates
provided by large international identity providers benefit both local staff as
well as smaller companies and developers. We will create a Summit wiki and
registration site soon. Please forward this to colleagues and friends
abroad. Please contact John Bradley, Nat Sakimura or myself to schedule Summit
presentations and for further information. Please note the final 2010
OpenID Summit will be on November 8<sup>th</sup> at Facebook headquarters in
Mountain View, CA. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Don Thibeau<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Executive Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The OpenID Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="http://openid.net/"><span
style='color:blue'>http://openid.net</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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