[OpenID] This is not a company election

[Johannes Ernst]

What would this advisory committee do, exactly? [Please expand ...]

Perhaps this could be combined with engaging the various local  
chapters we seem to have all over the world. We seem to have a local  
chapters committee:
	http://openid.net/pipermail/board/2008-February/000675.html



On Dec 12, 2008, at 15:56, Nat Sakimura wrote:

> I agree.
>
> We need to get diversity in gender, region, industry, expertise  
> (technical, legal, marketing, etc.)
> It is kind of unfortunate that we do not have the luxury of having  
> these broad representation for the nominees. For example, as it has  
> been pointed out, there is no female candidate, no representation  
> from Africa, South&West Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, etc.
>
> Perhaps OIDF should organize an advisory committee that encompasses  
> the above.
>
> =nat
>
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:37 AM, Johannes Ernst <jernst+openid.net at netmesh.us 
> > wrote:
>
> On Dec 11, 2008, at 11:16, Chris Messina wrote:
> Diversity is one thing that open source needs more of, and I'd love  
> to work on coming up with a plan in the next year to expand and  
> increase the number of active stakeholders and contributors to  
> OpenID -- that goes well beyond the protocol layer and into the  
> social, political and economic aspects of user-centric identity  
> technologies.
>
> Right. And that would be a great avenue to build the capabilities to  
> get the higher-level "protocols" right, such as the legal templates  
> that we are already being asked to provide -- a request that will  
> become more important in the future, and that the OIDF is currently  
> ill-equipped to even completely understand, never mind meet.
>
> Would love to work with you and others in this direction. After all,  
> that's more the proper role of a board than, say, micromanaging or  
> attempting to do all the work itself ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Johannes.
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> Johannes Ernst
> NetMesh Inc.
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