OpenID Foundation/Board/Minutes/2007-03-22
Present:
- Martin Atkins (note-taker)
- Artur Bergman
- Johannes Ernst
- Dick Hardt
- Scott Kveton
- David Recordon
- Drummond Reed
- Bill Washburn (moderating)
Meeting Opened 19:05 UTC
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EOO and European Identity Conference
It was explained that The European OpenID Organisation (formerly the OpenID Europe Foundation) wants to sponsor the European Identity Conference.
The board concluded that it would like to know a little bit more about how the EOO is operating and what its goals are, since it seems quite different to the goals of the OpenID Foundation in many ways.
Bylaws
Dick reminded the board that there had been no decisions about the policy for board composition.
The board first discussed some refinements to Dick's proposal. The discussion included:
- Does the size of the board need to be capped, or can it be dynamic? This in particular affects the quorum.
- How does one become a member of the board?
- Members elect new members?
- Whoever turns up at meetings? (with the possibility of virtual meetings)
- Foundation members elect board members?
- What constitutes a member of the foundation?
- Anyone that wants to sign up to vote?
- Anyone who attends meetings, either in person or virtually?
- What do the foundation members do?
- Vote in the board?
- Vote on pertinent issues?
- Length of term for directors?
- Ideally some kind of staggered arrangement to avoid switching out everyone at the same time.
At this point a concern was raised that we are moving towards a "pay-to-play" model.
(Dick had to leave the meeting at 19:25 UTC due to another commitment.)
It was decided that Bill would work with both David and Dick to flesh out two different proposals for the membership model and related issues so that other board members have a more complete picture of each approach. Dick will prepare the so-called "pay-to-play" approach, while David will work on a more donation-based approach.
Bounty Awards Discussion
The question was raised about whether the bounty awards, currently being run essentially by the companies that had offered the money.
It was noted that it is not unheard of for similar foundations to do this. The Perl Foundation has similar bounty awards.
Since not everyone taking part in the bounty program was present, it was decided to defer this discussion to a later time.
OpenIDEnabled.com
Scott presented the idea of moving some of the implementation-related content from OpenIDEnabled.com to OpenID.net, possibly on the wiki.
There was no objection to this.
IIW
The question was raised as to whether the foundation should have a special event as part of the Internet Identity Workshop.
There was agreement that some kind of session with the board would be useful, but at the moment the OpenID Foundation doesn't have the funds available to commit to sponsoring the event.
It was noted as particularly important to get the foundation fully operational by IIW, which is in May.
Schedule of Meetings
After no-one raised any concerns about the current meeting time, it was decided to retain the current schedule of one meeting every Thursday, now at 19:00 UTC instead of 20:00 UTC due to the switch to daylight savings time for all board members.
Once the Foundation is underway, the schedule will possibly be reduced to fortnightly meetings.
Approval of Minutes
The minutes of the previous meeting were unanimously approved by all present.
Apologies for Next Week
David noted that he is unable to attend next week due to a vacation.
Meeting ended 20:00 UTC.
