<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The membership committee decided the membership fees. It does cost money to run the Foundation, and we felt the $100 was a nominal fee for an individual to pay to join the Foundation. <div><br></div><div>I am of the view that anyone that the community votes to join the board should be allowed to serve as a community member. Given the size of the board, a few people from one employer is not going to distort votes.</div><div><br></div><div>-- Dick<br><div><br><div><div>On 17-Sep-08, at 5:07 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div> <font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">Well, if the “Election committees” decide to allow people to join without paying $100, I will be much more likely to seek a board seat.<br> <br> Question: can employees of the corporate sponsors join the board? Is there any restriction to avoid too many people from the same employer?<br> <br> EHL<br> <br> <br> On 9/17/08 4:50 PM, "Johannes Ernst" <<a href="jernst+openid.net@netmesh.us">jernst+openid.net@netmesh.us</a>> wrote:<br> <br> </span></font><blockquote><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">Q: Who gets to vote on OpenID Foundation matters, e.g. who gets to set<br> on community board seats? (such a mine)<br> <br> A: You need to be OpenID Foundation member in good standing. That<br> means you need to have signed up here:<br> <a href="https://openid.net/foundation/members/registration">https://openid.net/foundation/members/registration</a><br> <br> That does cost you some money; the theory is that this will get those<br> people to vote that care and leave out those that don't.<br> <br> Hopefully the membership and election committees ( <a href="http://wiki.openid.net/OpenID_Foundation/Committees">http://wiki.openid.net/OpenID_Foundation/Committees</a><br> ) will soon have defined a plan how we are going to go about the<br> elections.<br> <br> If you have any comments, please bug your favorite board member. As a<br> board we better be responsive to the community ... ;-)<br> <br> Cheers,<br> <br> <br> <br> Johannes.<br> <br> <br> <br> Johannes Ernst<br> NetMesh Inc.<br> <br> <br> <br> </span></font></blockquote> </div> _______________________________________________<br>general mailing list<br><a href="mailto:general@openid.net">general@openid.net</a><br>http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general<br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>