<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">What would this advisory committee do, exactly? [Please expand ...]<div><br></div><div>Perhaps this could be combined with engaging the various local chapters we seem to have all over the world. We seem to have a local chapters committee:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://openid.net/pipermail/board/2008-February/000675.html">http://openid.net/pipermail/board/2008-February/000675.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 12, 2008, at 15:56, Nat Sakimura wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I agree. <div><br></div><div>We need to get diversity in gender, region, industry, expertise (technical, legal, marketing, etc.)</div><div>It is kind of unfortunate that we do not have the luxury of having these broad representation for the nominees. For example, as it has been pointed out, there is no female candidate, no representation from Africa, South&West Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, etc. </div> <div><br></div><div>Perhaps OIDF should organize an advisory committee that encompasses the above. </div><div><br></div><div>=nat</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:37 AM, 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;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br> On Dec 11, 2008, at 11:16, Chris Messina wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> 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.<br> </blockquote> <br></div> Right. And that would be a great avenue to build the capabilities to get the higher-level "protocols" right, such as the legal templates that we are already being asked to provide -- a request that will become more important in the future, and that the OIDF is currently ill-equipped to even completely understand, never mind meet.<br> <br> Would love to work with you and others in this direction. After all, that's more the proper role of a board than, say, micromanaging or attempting to do all the work itself ;-)<br> <br> Cheers,<br> <br> <br> <br> Johannes.<br><font color="#888888"> <br> <br> <br> Johannes Ernst<br> NetMesh Inc.<br> <br> </font><br> <br> <a href="http://netmesh.info/jernst" target="_blank">http://netmesh.info/jernst</a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br>_______________________________________________<br> general mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:general@openid.net">general@openid.net</a><br> <a href="http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general" target="_blank">http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Nat Sakimura (=nat)<br><a href="http://www.sakimura.org/en/">http://www.sakimura.org/en/</a><br> </div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>