OpenID Foundation/Board/Minutes/2007-03-08
These are the approved minutes from the meeting of the 8th March 2007.
Present:
- Bill Washburn (Moderating)
- Dick Hardt
- Drummond Reed
- Martin Atkins (Note-taker)
- Johannes Ernst
Apologies:
- David Recordon
- Scott Kveton
- Artur Bergman (unable to attend due to illness)
Meeting opened at 20:10 UTC
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Frequency of Meetings
Noting that the meeting attendence is waning it was suggested that we potentially re-schedule the meetings.
Since we're still not completely underway it was suggested that we continue with the weekly meetings at least for another month and further until the organization is up and running.
Everyone in the meeting was happy to continue with the current arrangement, but it was acknowledged that this was possibly not true for those who weren't present.
Trademark Issues
Johannes noted that The OpenID Directory wishes to use and embellish the OpenID logo for the directory.
There is currently no trademark registration for the logo, but NetMesh is holding the trademark for the name OpenID.
Johannes and Bill will work together to research the policies presented by similar organizations, then prepare a draft policy for the community to discuss.
Sub-committee Reports
By-laws
The particular discussion topic was funding for the organization, and specifically how to justify membership dues and attract companies to join early on while financial support is particularly needed.
Some ideas were floated for funding:
- Organizational Memberships
- Personal Memberships
- Conferences
Conferences act as the primary funding for many similar organizations, but aren't possible until there is capital to put behind them.
In the short term, it is necessary to get organizations to become members by offering them some kind of voice in the foundation.
It would currently be newsworthy to join the foundation, but this won't last forever.
It is not clear at this time how best to involve members in the foundation. Some potential approaches were mentioned:
- Role-based advisory boards, e.g. vendors, RPs and community.
- Direct board membership for members.
- Ability for members to vote in representatives to the board.
- Direct participation ina standing committee of The Foundation
No consensus was reached at this time on which approach would be best.
IPR
The IPR sub-committee report was deferred to the next meeting due to the absense of David and Scott.
Demonstrating Interopability
It was proposed that the foundation should find a way to demonstrate that OpenID is moving towards interoperability with other related technologies such as SAML, Shibbolith, etc. Particularly for the purposes of Catalyst and IIW.
However, there was consensus that the board currently had other issues to attend to and that this should be left for another forum, such as the marketing mailing list and calls.
In-person Meeting at IIW
The question was raised about whether the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) would be used as the first in-person meeting of the OpenID Foundation.
The possibility of having a separate mini-conference alongside IIW will be discussed in the near future.
Meeting closed at 21:10UTC
