I'm strongly against adding all the committee chairs to the executive
committee. We established it to be small and focused. Other committees should
similarly be focused, and regularly report on their progress to the full board
(just like the executive committee does). Adding the committee chairs to the
executive committee would only perpetrate the misperception that the real work
is done by the full board and the executive committee, rather than in the
numerous other focused committees.
-- Mike
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Kissel
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:00 PM
To: [email protected]; John Ehrig ([email protected]); Deepak
Kamlani ([email protected])
Subject: Re: [OpenID board] OpenID Update: Orientation Briefing Feedback
Today we have the 4 statutory roles + international and technical liaisons (6
people total) on the EC. We also have the following 7 committees:
1. Bylaws
2. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
3. Marketing
4. Security
5. Specification Council
6. Trademark
7. Usability
So that would be 13 people on the EC, more if there are "co-chairs" for
committees as Don has been advocating. In addition, we don't have a committee
specifically targeted to RPs and supporting adoption/usage. Usability
contributes to adoption, Marketing contributes to awareness, but if we really
want to drive adoption we should probably have an adoption focused committee
chaired by folks with mainstream RP focus. Maybe we should reconsider what
standing committees we need for 2010, but there will be a number of them in any
case.
In 2009 the EC met every 2 weeks (EC meetings then monthly full board
meetings). That's a lot to expect 14+ people to participate in, and one of the
reasons we opted to keep the EC small in 2009. On the other hand, Don has
suggested less full board meetings in 2010, so perhaps we can have the EC meet
less frequently as well.
It would be good to hear again from Global Inventures what the role of the EC
is vs. the entire board. I'm in agreement with Don, Deepak, David, and others
who have been advocating moving more of the tactical execution and functional
area efforts to the committees and keeping the board and EC focused on
strategy, governance, finance, and operations.
Look forward to additional feedback from GI and other board members. It would
be good for us to discuss on this list how we'd like to proceed in advance of
the first board meeting, so we can make that a productive meeting. There are
certainly other important initiatives beyond the composition of our executive
committee that we need to focus our attention on.
Cheers,
Brian
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Recordon
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 7:23 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [OpenID board] OpenID Update: Orientation Briefing Feedback
2010 is the year where we must work on developing OpenID as a product beyond
just a technology. That said, I don't think that extending the Executive
Committee with another appointed liaison role is the correct approach.
This year we must also push work out from the Board into Committees. This both
broadens the pool of people who can directly become involved and forces us as
an organization to increase the value for non-sustaining members.
I believe that the Executive Committee should be chartered to either:
1) remain small (no more than five) and perform the execution work not done in
the Committees themselves, or
2) be made up of the Officers (president, vice president, secretary, and
treasurer) and the chair of each Committee to focus on tackling execution
issues across the organization as a whole.
I am supportive of being more formulaic to the organizations leadership
structure.
--David
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Brian Kissel
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Well, I guess I didn't wait ;-) As I said on the call yesterday, I think
Daniel's idea is a good one. We added the technical and international liaison
roles to ensure we had sufficient breadth of perspective at the executive
committee working level, and I think it served us well in 2009. Given that we
really want to continue to drive adoption and usage in 2010, having a
representative on the EC that brings the "voice of the customer" is a good
thing. We have some new board members that bring that viewpoint and it would
be great to make the most of this in the coming year.
Cheers,
Brian
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On Behalf Of Brian Kissel
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 6:06 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [OpenID board] OpenID Update: Orientation Briefing Feedback
Thanks Don, I'll wait a bit to see how others respond before putting in my +1
Cheers,
Brian
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On Behalf Of Don Thibeau (OIDF ED)
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 5:58 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Cc: 'Daniel Jacobson'
Subject: [OpenID board] OpenID Update: Orientation Briefing Feedback
OIDF Board Members
Yesterday the new members of the OpenID Board of Directors received an
orientation briefing on many of the plans and priorities we will discuss on our
first meeting Jan 20th. While not an official meeting, the agenda previewed
some of key issues the new board will consider as well as info for our budget
development and committee process for 2010. The relevant content from the
orientation briefing will be updated and included as part of the background
material for the teleconference on the 20th.
For your information:
One of the suggestions that came out of that discussion was a suggestion from
Daniel Jacobson that the views of relying parties can be best represented by
the addition of a liaison on the executive committee. It was suggested that
this new role be similar to that of the international and technical community
liaison positions. These "non officer" positions are part of the executive
committee by virtue of board convention established last year rather than OIDF
by laws.
Board Action Item:
Please let me know if you are unable to make the teleconference on the 20th
and, if desired, to whom you designate as your proxy.
Don Thibeau
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Executive Director
The OpenID Foundation
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