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Hi Dick,<br>
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Dick Hardt wrote:
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<div>Both statements are accurate.</div>
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<div>Anyone is welcome to run for the community board seats when they
come up for re-election.
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<div>The community board members want to ensure that the Foundation
represents the community, so would like to limit the Corporate board
membership, or at least ensure that community board seats balance the
corporate board seats -- so adding additional corporate board members
is not out of the question, it would require careful consideration by
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Is there some documentation on this or is it just an unspoken rule?
What about balancing the corporate members a little bit with smaller
organizations and individuals? I'd view this to be at least an
interesting thought, to balance the steering role even further and
guaranty a wider representation. Also most community board members are
affiliated with various interested parties too, so this perhaps this
isn't the most balanced setup anyway? Just some food for thoughts from
me...<br>
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<div>-- Dick</div>
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<div>On 8-Feb-08, at 6:07 PM, Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite"> Reading yet another nice article at <a
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href="http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3726771/OpenID+Gets+Star+Power.htm">http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3726771/OpenID+Gets+Star+Power.htm</a>
I picked up the following:<br>
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"Washburn said that although the foundation will continue recruiting
companies of all sizes to support the OpenID standard, it is not likely
to add any more board members."<br>
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Why is that? Just a week ago I was visiting the page at <a
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href="http://openid.net/foundation/join/">http://openid.net/foundation/join/</a>
which invites to join the foundation, from student up to the kind of
cooperations which just joined? A week ago there was a big emptiness at
the "Corporate Board Members" section...<br>
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Can somebody clarify what the official position is?<br>
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