[OpenID] URGENT Critical Vote needed now!

[Santosh Rajan]

I think you hit the nail on head David. I came to OpenID relatively very
recently (march 2009). My greatest frustration with OpenID was the "silent
majority". Why were these people so silent?  I have a few questions on this
subject.
1) Are these people so frustrated with OpenID that they couldn't care less?
2) Are these people silent because they don't want to be seen going against
the "majority opinion"? In that case what is the majority opinion?
3) I can accept the fact that people employed with corporations, will be
tied down to their corporate policies. But where are the independent
members? Who can speak their mind out?
These questions have really puzzled and frustrated me in the last few
months.



On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:36 PM, David Fuelling <sappenin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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" 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> 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
>>
>> *___________*
>>
>> * *
>>
>> *Brian Kissel <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/10/254>*
>>
>> *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] *On Behalf Of *Nat Sakimura
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 02, 2009 7:41 AM
>> *To:* SitG Admin
>> *Cc:* 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> 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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