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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Hello All,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Happy New Year! Thank you for your ongoing contributions to the OpenID Foundation and the working group.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This message is for OpenID Foundation members in good standing. Please note that there are two 2024 board elections underway in parallel. Voting on both elections opened yesterday,
 January 2, 2024:</span></p>
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<li class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">All members in good standing are encouraged to cast votes for the Community Representatives election which is being conducted via the member portal where you are able to review candidate statements
 and vote: </span><a href="https://openid.net/foundation/members/elections/58" class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://openid.net/foundation/members/elections/58</a><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">. Community Representative
 candidates (vote for two): </span></li><ul class="">
<li class="">George Fletcher</li><li class="">Michael B. Jones</li><li class="">Sebastian Rohr</li></ul>
<li class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Corporate members in good standing are encouraged to cast votes in the Corporate Representatives election which is being conducted via email. Candidate statements and all election details are
 in Corporate member representatives inboxes. Corporate Representative candidates (vote for two):</span></li><ul class="">
<li class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Ralph
 Bragg – Co-Founder & CTO at Raidiam</span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> </span></span></font></li><li class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Chris
 Michael – Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Ozone API</span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> </span></span></font></li><li class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Atul
 Tulshibagwale – CTO at SGNL</span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> </span></span></font></li><li class=""><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Mark
 Verstege – Lead Architect for Information Security and Banking for the Consumer Data Right (AU)</font></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Note that voting for both elections concludes at 12pm PST on Tuesday, January 16, 2024. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Please contact me with any questions.</span></p>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Kind regards,</span></div>
<div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Mike</span></div>
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