[OpenID] OpenID 2009 Year in Review

[Dick Hardt]

I am running as an independent, community member of the board, and here is my Candidacy statement from the website:

If elected to the board, I will strive to ensure that OpenID continues to be "open" and democratic in nature. I fear OpenID's success may lead to short cuts where identity is dominated by a small number of players.

OpenID has the potential to deliver Identity 2.0. My goal will be to do what I can to make that happen. We need to pull the community together, acknowledge the technical issues we have, and deliver OpenID v next.

I was a founding board member of the OpenID Foundation, past Treasurer and author of several OpenID specifications. I've promoted the Identity 2.0 meme and blog about identity at http://identity20.com.

Although I currently work at Microsoft, if elected I will represent the broader OpenID community.



On 2009-12-16, at 2:32 PM, SitG Admin wrote:

> >1.       If you haven't voted in the board elections yet, please do so at https://openid.net/foundation/members/elections/3  We have a great list of highly qualified candidates for the board.
> 
> It seems this list of people is only available to logged-in members. I don't see a large number of candidates posting their nomination statement (or even status) to the openid-general list, or through any other channels that are open to the public. Are elections meant to be a strictly internal process (with everyone not directly involved finding out only after the fact), with exceptions made by whichever candidates may feel like announcing their participation?
> 
> -Shade
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