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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>My 2 euros ... I'd like to see the content moved to
OpenID.Net and a max group of between 3 to 5 leadership of OpenID Europe.
</FONT><FONT face=Calibri>This group of 3 to 5 should have 1/2 on the actual
OpenID Foundation board and be part a visible and active part of the development
of OpenID. Not necessarily technically as people can do that from
anywhere, but providing geo-context is so key to all this.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>There is no need to have 50 European representatives and
as i clicked through most of those links (and there are many) give
DNS errors or pages (and people) not found.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>We need a core group to build momentum by allowing
people to field questions and so on - as well as build European OpenID related
blogs, links and activity.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>/steven</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><A
href="http://livz.org">http://livz.org</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=sakimura@gmail.com
href="mailto:sakimura@gmail.com">Nat Sakimura</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 02, 2009 1:54 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=openid-board@lists.openid.net
href="mailto:openid-board@lists.openid.net">openid-board</A> ; <A
title=openid-eu@lists.openid.net
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [OpenID - Eu] Fwd: [OpenID board] Status of the OpenID
FoundationEurope</DIV></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Forwarding this message by Robert Ott since it did not seem to
get through to the list somehow.
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<DIV>=nat<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>---------- Forwarded message ----------<BR>From: <B
class=gmail_sendername>Robert Ott</B> <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
title="mailto:robert.ott@clavid.com CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="mailto:robert.ott@clavid.com">robert.ott@clavid.com</A>></SPAN><BR>Date:
Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 4:23 AM<BR>Subject: Re: [OpenID board] Status of the OpenID
Foundation Europe<BR>To: Nat Sakimura <<A
title="mailto:sakimura@gmail.com CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="mailto:sakimura@gmail.com">sakimura@gmail.com</A>>, <A
href="mailto:openid-board@lists.openid.net">openid-board@lists.openid.net</A><BR>Cc:
Snorri Giorgetti <<A
title="mailto:snorri.giorgetti@gmail.com CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="mailto:snorri.giorgetti@gmail.com">snorri.giorgetti@gmail.com</A>>, <A
href="mailto:openid-eu@lists.openid.net">openid-eu@lists.openid.net</A><BR><BR><BR>Hi
Nat / OIDF,<BR><BR>OpenID Europe was mainly managed by Snorri Gioretti. As far
as I now, he was/is officially responsible for managing Europe by the OIDF. At
least it states so at OIDF => <A
href="http://openid.net/foundation/leadership/"
target=_blank>http://openid.net/foundation/leadership/</A><BR><BR>In the past,
he did take care of registering the OpenID trademark and domains in many
European countries (such as <A href="http://openideurope.eu"
target=_blank>openideurope.eu</A>). He also appointed the representatives for
the countries stated at the page <A href="http://www.openideurope.eu/team/"
target=_blank>http://www.openideurope.eu/team/</A>. That was great work an I
really appreciate it.<BR><BR>End of 2008, Snorri got elected to the OIDF board
of directors for a 2 years period in order to represent Europe in OIDF
accordingly. Unfortunately, after he got elected, he almost disappeared from
OpenID Europe activities. Nobody was officially appointed to take over Snorri's
activities. I tried to reach him by E-Mail, Phone, SMS for the last 12 month but
unfortunately with no response. Thus, the current situation is that many people
(including me) don't know who actually manages OpenID Europe and more
importantly, who is the owner of the registered trademarks and the domains such
as <A href="http://openideurope.eu" target=_blank>openideurope.eu</A>? Who has
the contact information of all the European representatives? And so on. I
thought Snorri donated everything to OIDF but I'm not sure about
that.<BR><BR>Does anybody of the board members have contact with Snorri to
clarify responsibilities?<BR><BR>I could help in bringing the content of <A
href="http://openideurope.eu" target=_blank>openideurope.eu</A> to another site
as I do still have read and write access to the WordPress instance (but no admin
rights, unfortunately). One place where to move it could be <A
href="http://openid.net/foundation/chapters/europe/"
target=_blank>http://openid.net/foundation/chapters/europe/</A> in order to have
it in the hands of OIDF. If I can get write access to <A
href="http://openid.net" target=_blank>openid.net</A>, I could take care of that
part.<BR><BR>I think an important next step should be to appoint somebody from
Europe (or a group of people with clear responsibilities) to take over the
OpenID Europe activities.<BR><BR>I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of
activities here in Europe regarding OpenID promotion and integration. However,
it is probably not widely recognized on the Internet as it just doesn't get
published to a wide audience. OIDF could be a great platform to do so. I'm sure
we all could do better, so lets restart OpenID Europe!<BR><BR>But as I
mentioned, a first step should be that OIDF clarifies with Snorri the current
status and the appoint appropriate people to take over activities.<BR><BR>Best
Regards<BR><BR>Robert, OpenID Switzerland<BR>
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<DIV class=h5><BR>On 25.11.2009, at 18:06, Nat Sakimura wrote:<BR><BR>> Hi
Robert,<BR>><BR>> Any news from your side?<BR>><BR>>
=nat<BR>><BR>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Jean-Noël Colin <<A
href="mailto:jn.colin@gmail.com">jn.colin@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR>> Hi
Henrik<BR>><BR>> I must admit I do share your concerns about openid
europe; I haven't seen much activity around that foundation and was also
wondering whether it would be more appropriate to have one single consolidated
foundation, rather than maintaining an idle one.<BR>><BR>> Best
regards<BR>><BR>> Jean-Noel Colin<BR>><BR>> On 25 Nov 2009, at
03:06, Henrik Biering wrote:<BR>><BR>> > Hi Snorri,<BR>> > how
are you doing? I have not heard anything from you for quite a long time.<BR>>
><BR>> > Yesterday, I discovered that the <A href="http://openid.dk"
target=_blank>openid.dk</A> domain registered by OpenID foundation Europe had
expired and had been deactivated.<BR>> > I have now managed to pay the
invoice and get the domain reactivated.<BR>> ><BR>> > However, I
wonder about the situation of OpenID Europe Foundation in general. You have done
an impressive job of aquiring the European and National Trademarks for OpenID as
well as several national OpenID domains on behalf of the EU foundation, and it
would be sad to see the result of these efforts vanish.<BR>> ><BR>>
> If there are no resources available to maintain OpenID Foundation Europe,
maybe it is appropriate to consider how this IPR may be consolidated within the
global OpenID Foundation (or alternatively at the national levels).<BR>>
><BR>> > Best Regards,<BR>> > Henrik Biering<BR>> >
OpenID-DK representative<BR>> ><BR>> >
_______________________________________________<BR>> > board mailing
list<BR>> > <A
href="mailto:board@lists.openid.net">board@lists.openid.net</A><BR>> > <A
href="http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-board"
target=_blank>http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-board</A><BR>><BR>>
_______________________________________________<BR>> board mailing
list<BR>> <A
href="mailto:board@lists.openid.net">board@lists.openid.net</A><BR>> <A
href="http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-board"
target=_blank>http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-board</A><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>>
--<BR>> Nat Sakimura (=nat)<BR>> <A href="http://www.sakimura.org/en/"
target=_blank>http://www.sakimura.org/en/</A><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR><BR
clear=all><BR>-- <BR>Nat Sakimura (=nat)<BR><A
href="http://www.sakimura.org/en/">http://www.sakimura.org/en/</A><BR></DIV>
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