[OpenID] This is not a company election

[Nat Sakimura]

It should gather the voice of those different constituents produce reports
on:
1. What they are looking forward to
2. What their evaluation of the OIDF activities are.

They are going to be inputs to the board that board must acknowledge and
either implement/incorporate in plans, or if the board decided not to, state
the reason why not.

Yes, Local Chapters committee is one thing, but it is only of Local
Chapters. We do not have too many of them right now. Perhpas OIDF can help
setup Local Chapters in other areas as well and invite the representatives
to the local chapters committee.

Then, the geographical distribution is only one aspect.

We have other constituents like gender, industry, activity fields (such as
legal, marketing, sociology etc.)

=nat

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Johannes Ernst <jernst+openid.net@
netmesh.us> wrote:

> 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@
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Johannes Ernst
>> NetMesh Inc.
>>
>>
>>
>>  http://netmesh.info/jernst
>>
>>
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