Thanks for this Henrik — it's good to hear that the EU OpenID community is organizing itself and coming together.<div><br></div><div>It would certainly be a positive development to have a stronger representation of OpenID in the EU — and I'd be interested and open to ideas on to how, with the new board, we can facilitate collaboration efforts between all geographically-oriented initiatives.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Chris<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 3:12 AM, Henrik Biering <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hb@netamia.com">hb@netamia.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello all!<br>
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At last years board election Snorri Giorgetti, who represented the OpenID Europe Foundation was elected to the OpenID board with a very large number of votes.<br>
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Sadly, due to various circumstances he was not able to fulfil this role and was removed from the board shortly before this election. This has left the OpenID Foundation without representation from Europe - and Europe with a broken OpenID community and uncertainty about the future direction and role of the OpenID Foundation Europe.<br>
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Fortunately more people from various European countries have stepped forward to offer their assistance in making Europe an active part of the OpenID community. Four people have nominated themselves for the election, and even more people have agreed to contribute to a core team working with the European candidate(s) that get elected.<br>
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This Thursday the group held its first phone conference. A general agreement on various issues was confirmed and it was decided to move forward as a group. We want to work as a community as part of the OIDF and not focusing on setting a legal entity like the OIDE was. Therefore the goals of the OIDF are leading in how we will contribute.<br>
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The next European Conference call will be Thursday, 7. January. Watch out for more details on the Openid-EU list. We are looking forward to extend the reach of OpenID within Europe and to give Europe a voice within the OpenID Foundation.<br>
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We urge you to consider each of the European candidates. We recognize, however, that the overall list of candidates includes a large number of other candidates with significant merits. Therefore the participants in the phone conference agreed to nominate Kick Willemse from Holland as our primary European candidate. So if you have no specific preference for any of the European candidates we jointly propose that you:<br>
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VOTE for Kick Willemse<br>
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Posted on behalf of the participants in the first European phone conference:<br>
Henrik Biering, Denmark<br>
Kick Willemse, Holland<br>
Lorenzo Cassulo, Italy<br>
Martin Paljak, Estonia<br>
Marcin Jagodziński, Poland<br>
Robert Ott, Switzerland<br>
Simon Josefsson, Sweden<br>
Zdravko Stoychev, Bulgaria<br>
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