[OpenID] URGENT Critical Vote needed now!

[Brian Kissel]

Yes, we are sending out reminders to members direct email accounts. If your email address at OIDF is out of date, please update it.

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From: David Fuelling <sappenin at gmail.com>
To: Brian Kissel
Cc: Nat Sakimura <sakimura at gmail.com>; openid-general at lists.openid.net <openid-general at lists.openid.net>; board-private at openid.net <board-private at openid.net>; Don Thibeau (OIDF ED) <don at oidf.org>
Sent: Fri Dec 04 10:06:48 2009
Subject: Re: [OpenID] URGENT Critical Vote needed now!

Do these "direct reminders" go directly do members' email addresses, and where are they sent from?  My gmail filters pretty much  everything with an "openid.net<http://openid.net>" domain into various Opend-related buckets (tags that aren't in my inbox), and depending on my workload, I may only read OpenID related information every week or two (sometimes its worse).

Anyway, it's possible that official openid emails are not hitting inboxes on purpose because many OIDF members do not read OIDF messages every day due to filters.

Maybe a reason to extend the vote?

david

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Brian Kissel <bkissel at janrain.com<mailto:bkissel at janrain.com>> wrote:
Don and John, can we send out another reminder to all members?  For those of you who know someone who is a member but hasn’t been active, can you encourage them to vote ASAP!  Can we extend the voting period so we don’t end another cycle without sufficient participation?

Cheers,

Brian
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CEO, JanRain - WebID and Social Publishing for User Engagement
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From: openid-general-bounces at lists.openid.net<mailto:openid-general-bounces at lists.openid.net> [mailto:openid-general-bounces at lists.openid.net<mailto:openid-general-bounces at lists.openid.net>] On Behalf Of Nat Sakimura
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 7:41 AM
To: SitG Admin
Cc: openid-general at lists.openid.net<mailto:openid-general at lists.openid.net>; Don Thibeau (OIDF ED)

Subject: Re: [OpenID] URGENT Critical Vote needed now!

Hi.

An authoritative answer should come from the secretariat, but here is what I understand:

The quorum is the greater of the 30% of the entire membership or 30.
Since we seem to have 338 active members, that means 102 votes.
Among it, we have to achieve majority of the vote + super majority of the entire board.

Right now, only 58 votes has been cast, so we have significant shortage of the vote.

FYI, to start a WG right now, we need 68 votes, so if we only get a current level of participation, we will not be able to spin out a WG, which means we are dead as a standardization forum.

I urge everybody to vote.

=nat

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:51 AM, SitG Admin <sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com<mailto:sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com>> wrote:
This is to alert all that we have a significant shortfall in the vote re:
the IPR process.  Votes are needed now.

Many members may not be aware of the very high bar set for changes of this
sort.

You need something like a majority of all *possible* voters, not those who actually vote? It almost sounds like a passive DoS attack, then - just pay and forget to stall the voting process for that year.

-Shade

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