[OpenID] 8th OpenID community board member

[David Recordon]

There are not any regulations on this though is something that we try  
to make clear during the elections themselves so that members are  
informed when voting.  We haven't come up with a better approach than  
that.

--David

On Feb 6, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Carsten Pötter wrote:

> This was probably mentioned once, but how make you sure the  
> community board members act independent of their employers, that are  
> corporate board members? For example, Eric is a community board  
> member while his employer, Google, is a corporate board member. If  
> Eran and Allen had been elected, there were two Yahoo! employees on  
> board and Yahoo! had another seat as well.
>
> Are there any regulations for cases like this?
>
> Carsten
>
> Am 06.02.2009 um 20:34 schrieb David Recordon:
>
>> The executive committee is currently made up of a mix of community  
>> and corporate members.  Given that there will always be one more  
>> community member than corporate, I think it would be hard to have  
>> an executive committee made up entirely of corporate members.  That  
>> said, it is something we should address in the Foundation's bylaws.
>>
>> --David