[OpenID] Q&A: Who gets to vote?

[Dick Hardt]

Thanks for the response Jack.

We may not have picked the right price point for membership -- don't  
know that until after we have promoted the membership. This is the  
first negative reaction I have heard from an individual. For someone  
that cares about identity, is attending things like the internet  
identity workshop -- $100 did seem nominal to be a voting member. It  
is definitely much less then a corporation has to pay, and the  
corporation only gets one vote, just like the individual.

If identity is important to you, but you can't afford the $100, then  
can still participate. You do NOT have to be a member to participate  
in the community writing code or working on specifications or just  
providing feedback on the mail lists.

As per your comment about implementations -- it is a disservice to the  
community to develop multiple libraries for the same platform/ 
language. Efforts are duplicated, code features and quality are lower  
then they would be if the different groups were to work together --  
and it is confusing to developers as to which one to use.

Once again Jack, I want to thank you for taking the time to express  
how you feel about this issue.

-- Dick

On 18-Sep-08, at 10:29 AM, Jack Cleaver wrote:

> Dick Hardt wrote:
>> The membership committee decided the membership fees. It does cost
>> money to run the Foundation, and we felt the $100 was a nominal fee
>> for an individual to pay to join the Foundation.
>
> $100 would pay for a new video card, a daytrip to London (from here in
> Oxford), or quite a few other things I can't afford. If you charge  
> $100
> for membership, you are stating clearly that you don't want anything  
> to
> do with individual volunteers (because nobody will pay for the  
> privilege
> of volunteering). You are in fact emitting strong signals that this  
> is a
> corporate project.
>
> You *could* of course charge volunteers a fee that really was  
> nominal -
> a tenner, say - and fund your foundation out of corporate  
> contributions.
> The fact that you don't speaks volumes.
>
> Incidentally, as far as volunteers is concerned: I have on several
> occasions seen comments from some of the (corporate) regulars here, to
> the effect that we don't want any more implementations, thank you very
> much; the existing (corporate) implementations all work very well,  
> what
> we need is consumers and users (and perhaps advocates). So that's  
> really
> saying the same thing: the code is written, the trademarks are
> registered, it just isn't selling.
>
> I gave up coding a year ago, by the way.
>
> -- 
> Jack.
>
>
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