<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Johannes Ernst <span dir="ltr"><jernst+<a href="http://openid.net">openid.net</a>@<a href="http://netmesh.us">netmesh.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On Dec 11, 2008, at 11:01, Scott Kveton wrote:<br>
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While the open source participant in me is concerned about Brian not<br>
having a personal blog, the current board member that has fiduciary<br>
responsibility for the OIDF is not. Brian may not completely<br>
understand the 'open community' rules of engagement but *that's a good<br>
thing for us*. IMHO we have to get away from the whole<br>
technology-for-the-sake-of-technology.<br>
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Now here's something I really can say ++1 to.<br>
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We need to broaden the sets of expertise that we have on the board, not insist that all board members look and talk and do the same. (No board is needed for the latter at all, one individual as dictator will do just fine.)<br>
</blockquote></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><br></span></div>Of course this gets my +1 as well.<div><br></div><div>Diversity is one thing that open source needs more of, and I'd love to work on coming up with a plan in the next year to expand and increase the number of active stakeholders and contributors to OpenID -- that goes well beyond the protocol layer and into the social, political and economic aspects of user-centric identity technologies.</div>
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