Just a question, I don't know how the process is organized today Because I have apply to become (just personally 100$) Member in 2007, Bill thanked me But I have never received any document of information after... (and to pay) And I know that it's the same for other potential Member in France and Romania have contacted me about the OIDF Membership because they had not received a answer...
Who knows why? ;-) -Snorri -----Message d'origine----- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Drummond Reed Envoyé : vendredi 29 février 2008 07:56 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Objet : Re: [OpenID board] Membership (or lack thereof) and Board Elections David has a good point that having community board elections before we have enrolled a reasonable number of community members seems backward. Maybe we should set a target number of community members (50? 100?) after which we trigger elections? I also think as I said on the call today that a dramatically lower community membership fee ($20 or less) would help encourage community membership. =Drummond > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of David Recordon > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 10:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [OpenID board] Membership (or lack thereof) and Board Elections > > Stemming from other conversations...I'd have to agree that so far > we've really done very little to push for membership in the OpenID > Foundation. Today the benefits are around electing the Foundation's > board and approving specification working groups, though they're not > articulated anywhere nor have we actually built the applications to > make these benefits a reality! > > I also think that the local chapters of the OpenID Foundation will (or > at least should) weigh somehow on community board elections. The > community board should be balanced to represent OpenID communities > around the World and finding a way to have local chapters help achieve > this feels imperative. > > I want to start out by saying that I completely agree that we need to > hold elections for the community board seats so that they are > officially elected by the community! That said, I am truly worried > that the OpenID Foundation's membership is not actually in a position > to do that yet. Rather, it seems that as we still are not focusing on > building the membership base, even if we hold elections in April/May > (Mike's policy document was awesome btw) *the outcome still won't > represent the community*. In fact, we might be in a worse position > where 20 members elect the board members for one or two years which is > then seen as being representative of the community. While it can be > argued that even 20 members electing the community board is better > than 0 members electing it, I'd much rather see us in a situation > where even if it is another six months down the road we have 500 > members electing the board! > > Right now, the OpenID ecosystem is moving and growing faster than the > Foundation or its board! I would strongly advocate that we focus our > energy today on making the Foundation match the growing community (as > we did yesterday in Japan) before locking down the board for another > two years; nearly the entire lifespan of OpenID itself. > > My $0.02, > --David > > _______________________________________________ > board mailing list > [email protected] > http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board _______________________________________________ board mailing list [email protected] http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board _______________________________________________ board mailing list [email protected] http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board
