<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Santosh,</div><div><br></div>I would be happy to have you as one of my seconders. <div><br></div><div>I think we do have a bit of an apathy problem at this point in the openID lifecycle. </div><div><br></div><div>I do have to grant that you are not apathetic regarding openID.</div><div><br></div><div>I went to nominate myself, which is a bit strange even for someone as egotistical as myself.</div><div>I discovered that you need to make your candidate statement as part of the nomination precess, and can't change it later.</div><div><br></div><div>I thought I should give it some thought and not just say the first thing that popped into my head.</div><div>That generally gets me in trouble:)</div><div><br></div><div>John B.</div><div><div><div>On 2009-11-24, at 1:41 PM, Santosh Rajan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hehe, who said elections can't be loads of fun?<div><br></div><div>And John Bradley, if you were to nominate yourself, i am going to second you. Because even though we don't agree with each other, you always tried to reason with me, which i think is a great quality you have.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Having said that, i think my seconding you might be counter productive for you, considering how popular i am around here. :-)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Terrell Russell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:terrellrussell@gmail.com" target="_blank">terrellrussell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I would like to thank Santosh for injecting himself into the election<br>
process as I would love for the elections themselves to be a referendum<br>
on Santosh's opinions.<br>
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Let the (largely silent and polite) community speak, via an election, on<br>
Santosh's opinions.<br>
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Terrell<br>
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On 11/24/09 10:17 AM, Santosh Rajan wrote:<br>
> Ok, so i thought I will put down my thinking on the coming OpenID elctions.<br>
> Disclaimer: I have no intentions for nominating myself. Because I think that<br>
> would be preposterous for the following reasons.<br>
> 1) I am sure there are better qualified people than me to be on the board.<br>
> 2) I live half was across the world from SA. California and I couldn't do<br>
> any justice to that position.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Now there are two people who i wouldn't like to see continue on the board. I<br>
> will give their names and the reasons.<br>
><br>
> 1) Brian Kissel. I don't think he has any leadership qualities. A leader has<br>
> to lead from the front, and Brian unfortunately has not lead from the<br>
> front.peaks 2) Chriss Messina. I don't even know why he is on the OpenID<br>
> board. As far as I can see he is a man who speaks from "all sides of his<br>
> mouth". Maybe he is a PR man or something like that. I don't understand what<br>
> he really is all about. From my personal experience with him, he is not a<br>
> man to be trusted. I have my own reasons to believe so from my own<br>
> interactions with him.<br>
><br>
> Sorry Brian. Chris, for saying this in public. You are free to reply to this<br>
> post and prove me wrong.<br>
> Thanks<br>
> Santosh<br>
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