[OpenID] A european voice within OIDF

[Chris Messina]

Thanks for this Henrik — it's good to hear that the EU OpenID community is
organizing itself and coming together.

It would certainly be a positive development to have a stronger
representation of OpenID in the EU — and I'd be interested and open to ideas
on to how, with the new board, we can facilitate collaboration efforts
between all geographically-oriented initiatives.

Chris

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 3:12 AM, Henrik Biering <hb at netamia.com> wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> At last years board election Snorri Giorgetti, who represented the OpenID
> Europe Foundation was elected to the OpenID board with a very large number
> of votes.
>
> Sadly, due to various circumstances he was not able to fulfil this role and
> was removed from the board shortly before this election. This has left the
> OpenID Foundation without representation from Europe - and Europe with a
> broken OpenID community and uncertainty about the future direction and role
> of the OpenID Foundation Europe.
>
> Fortunately more people from various European countries have stepped
> forward to offer their assistance in making Europe an active part of the
> OpenID community. Four people have nominated themselves for the election,
> and even more people have agreed to contribute to a core team working with
> the European candidate(s) that get elected.
>
> This Thursday the group held its first phone conference. A general
> agreement on various issues was confirmed and it was decided to move forward
> as a group. We want to work as a community as part of the OIDF and not
> focusing on setting a legal entity like the OIDE was. Therefore the goals of
> the OIDF are leading in how we will contribute.
>
> The next European Conference call will be Thursday, 7. January. Watch out
> for more details on the Openid-EU list. We are looking forward to extend the
> reach of OpenID within Europe and to give Europe a voice within the OpenID
> Foundation.
>
> We urge you to consider each of the European candidates. We recognize,
> however, that the overall list of candidates includes a large number of
> other candidates with significant merits. Therefore the participants in the
> phone conference agreed to nominate Kick Willemse from Holland as our
> primary European candidate. So if you have no specific preference for any of
> the European candidates we jointly propose that you:
>
> VOTE for Kick Willemse
>
> Posted on behalf of the participants in the first European phone
> conference:
> Henrik Biering, Denmark
> Kick Willemse, Holland
> Lorenzo Cassulo, Italy
> Martin Paljak, Estonia
> Marcin Jagodziński, Poland
> Robert Ott, Switzerland
> Simon Josefsson, Sweden
> Zdravko Stoychev, Bulgaria
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