<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">OpenID Foundation Community and Members:<o:p></o:p></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'"> </font></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">The OpenID Marketing Committee has begun a long overdue overhaul of the OIDF website. Your input is welcome and needed. The OpenID Foundation currently has a number of Working Groups (WGs) listed on the Foundation’s website that do not appear to have been active for some time. We plan to close down and remove all inactive WG’s by years end.<o:p></o:p></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; ">This email is an “open call” to all those who seek to keep any OIDF WG active. Please refer to the OIDF Working Group webpage for a list of all current WG’s </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; "><a href="http://wiki.openid.net/w/page/12995249/Working Group" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://wiki.openid.net/w/page/12995249/Working%20Groups</a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Contact me (<a href="mailto:don@oidf.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">don@oidf.org</a>) or John Ehrig (<a href="mailto:jehrig@inventures.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">jehrig@inventures.com</a>) no later than December 15, 2011 to notify the Foundation if you believe the Foundation should keep one of the listed WG’s active. John or I will contact you for further information. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'"><o:p></o:p></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'"> </font></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">The OIDF Marketing committee's sees the new site's focus to include connecting website owners with vendors of relying party (RP) software/services as well as other features to make the site a valuable tool for communities in the US and oversees.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Regards,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Don Thibeau</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Executive Director </font></div></body></html>