And there are nearly a dozen people who got their nominations in on time...


On Nov 29, 2010, at 8:00 PM, Mike Jones <[email protected]> wrote:

> I’ve been trying to stay out of this because I’m a candidate but in the 
> interest of clarity, mostly as a past election committee chair, I’m going to 
> communicate only facts and then entirely recurse myself from any involvement 
> in decisions made by the foundation based upon those facts.  As the past 
> elections committee chair for the previous two elections, upon which this 
> year’s election’s procedures were based, I do have some authoritative 
> knowledge of the facts below.
> 
>  
> 
> Don’s election announcement sent to the OpenID general list on November 9th 
> with the subject line “OIDF Board Election Announcement” contained the 
> following text:
> 
> Nominations open:  Monday, November 15
> Nominations close:  Monday, November 29
> 
> 
> Times for all dates are Noon, U.S. Pacific Time.
> 
>  
> 
> Thus, for this election, nominations opened at Noon Pacific Time on Monday, 
> November 15th and closed at Noon Pacific Time on Monday, November 29th.  The 
> election tool enforces the dates and times entered.  The Noon Pacific time 
> starting and ending times were used for the 2008 and 2009 elections as well.
> 
>  
> 
> Those are the facts as I understand them.
> 
>  
> 
>                                                             -- Mike
> 
>  
> 
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joseph Smarr
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 7:40 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: OpenID Board (public)
> Subject: Re: [OpenID board] Unable to authenticate, therefore unable to 
> nominate myself
> 
>  
> 
> I was planning to nominate myself for the board tonight (was busy with family 
> over the weekend), but the UI to nominate myself has gone away. I thought 
> today (11/29) was the last day to nominate myself. Is that GMT or something 
> weird? Or was it "11/29" meaning "11/28 11:59p"? 
> 
>  
> 
> I'd really like to nominate myself, and I don't think blocking that on a 
> poorly communicated technicality is in the best interest of the foundation. 
> :) Can somebody fix things and/or let me know how nominate myself?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks, js
> 
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Chris Messina <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>  
> 
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:10 PM, John Bradley <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I seem to recall that the web site is using UTC for running ballots etc.   I 
> suppose that we had to pick a timezone and that is as good as any.
> 
>  
> 
> Though it would be a problem if you leave things to less than 8h to the 
> deadline by west coast time.
> 
>  
> 
> I am concerned about Chris not being able to get in.   I didn't have a 
> problem,  but I am not using a delegated openID.
> 
>  
> 
> I will see if I can replicate the problem.  
> 
>  
> 
> Chris, did this just start,  or haven't you logged in for a while?
> 
>  
> 
> This started recently — and I may have had problems before which were 
> addressed. I'm guessing it has to do with RPX's approach to discovering 
> delegation on my site. 
> 
>  
> 
> Here's a screencast of my experience:
> 
>  
> 
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18443/openid-fail.mov
> 
>  
> 
> FWIW, I'm able to login to disqus.net using my OpenID (factoryjoe.com) 
> without issue.
> 
>  
> 
> Chris
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> John B.
> 
>  
> 
> On 2010-11-29, at 7:34 PM, Dick Hardt wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I just logged onto the site to self nominate, and I don't see the button/link 
> there anymore. It is still the 11/29th is it not?
> 
>  
> 
> btw: I was able to login fine
> 
>  
> 
> -- Dick
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Messina
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 3:52 PM
> To: OpenID Board (public)
> Subject: [OpenID board] Unable to authenticate, therefore unable to nominate 
> myself
> 
>  
> 
> I've been trying to authenticate on the foundation member site for the past 
> two days and have had no luck. I've been in touch with both Janrain and Darin 
> from Refresh to no avail. If I'm not the only one unable to authenticate with 
> my delegated OpenID, I wonder who else has been unable to self-nominate 
> themselves for the election?
> 
>  
> 
> This seems like a serious issue with our election proceedings.
> 
>  
> 
> Advise?
> 
>  
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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