<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Sep 17, 2008, at 13:14 , Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">... the foundation and its leadership have failed to get anything done other than create titles</span></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Unfortunately -- and I say this as one of the founding board members -- there is some truth to what you are saying.</div><div><br></div><div>In fact, it drives me just as nuts. Perhaps more so ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>Which is why I've decided to do something about it. Specifically:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Collection of objectives and "what OIDF should be doing" from a broad set of stake holders. Current status at <a href="http://wiki.openid.net/OpenID_Foundation/Strategy">http://wiki.openid.net/OpenID_Foundation/Strategy</a></div><div>I -- and everybody on the board -- would welcome all feedback and in particular volunteers to "grab an item" and do it, just like I and some others do.</div><div><br></div><div>2. Prioritization down to:</div><div><br></div><div>a. ED hire. So I got myself on the hiring committee and apparently successfully proposed a process that they/we are now following. It can't be that we publicly announce that our inaugural ED will be leaving and won't hire a replacement in a reasonable time frame. </div><div><br></div><div>b. Chartering of a security committee. Which has happened, although I do not currently know where it stands. (Mental note: find out!)</div><div><br></div><div>c. Customer research. We got the committee chartered, we have a time line and deliverables (the first OIDF committee to do so.) As of yesterday, we have contracted with a very qualified lady (Rosemary Remacle of MarketFocus) to help us out, and we'll expect to present initial results to the next board meeting. The collection of input at this point in time is here: <a href="http://wiki.openid.net/OpenID_Foundation/CRC">http://wiki.openid.net/OpenID_Foundation/CRC</a></div><div><br></div><div>And as always, if you have a better plan, please do speak up!</div><div><br></div><div>On a related subject, there will be a vote for community board member seats some time soon. I hope that everybody who is dissatisfied and thinks they will do a better job, will run for a seat!! ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Johannes.</div><br><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>Johannes Ernst</div><div>NetMesh Inc.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span><img height="16" width="16" src="cid:A9F79C49-09FA-4C14-96D2-867562EE1199@hsd1.ca.comcast.net."></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "> </span><span><img height="16" width="36" src="cid:FE089E56-C1C3-471D-BAA7-28EEC60F099C@hsd1.ca.comcast.net."></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "> <a href="http://netmesh.info/jernst">http://netmesh.info/jernst</a></span> </div><br></body></html>