OpenID Foundation/Board/Minutes/2007-08-16
Present:
- Artur Bergman
- Bill Washburn
- David Recordon
- Dick Hardt
- Drummond Reed
- Johannes Ernst
- Martin Atkins
- Scott Kveton
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Proposed Change to Board Composition
Discussion and motions related to the proposal to add as many as four board seats for corporate representation:
Motion 1: Create four corporate board seats where the membership will be decided by the community elected board members.
Motion passed unanimously
Motion 2: Adopt the membership dues schedule that Bill sent out. This schedule starts now and is good until the end of 2008. The schedule is as follows:
| Student | $50.00 |
| Individual | $100.00 |
| Nonprofit Organization | $100.00 |
| Company, Government Agency, or Other Organization with: | |
| * 1-25 employees | $500.00 |
| * 26-100 employees | $1,500.00 |
| * 101-250 employees | $2,500.00 |
| * 250-1000 employees | $5,000.00 |
| * more than 1000 employees | $10,000.00 |
Motion passed unanimously
Motion 3: Bill is able to go and sell up to four memberships on the board with a target price of $100K. The offer/negotiation is somewhat flexible and include other sponsorship benefits in that price. The value of each different corporate board members's packages has to have equivilent value. Bill can lower the price to a bottom of $50k with consultation with Dick and Scott without further board intervention. These board seats have right of first refusal in subsequent terms after 2008. Right of refusal will happen on a first-come first-serve basis in the order in which initial commitments are made.
Motion passed unanimously
IPR Update
A timeline was sent out to the board list.
By the next meeting will have process and rationale documents and then Digital ID World can be used to discuss the finer points. The board can finalize it in October.
Rough timeline is:
- Initial draft of process distributed today.
- Rationale on Monday
- Telecon among participants the following week.
- On 30th August board call go through these documents and motion to
approve.
- Documents would then go public for a 30 day review cycle.
Non-profit Status Needs
Bill has sent out a request to all board members for contact/SSN information needed for the IRS application.
Trademarks
Johannes has been reaching out to people who have expressed opinions on this subject.
There seems to be some consensus to follow a similar principle to the Jabber software foundation for the "Jabber" trademark.
Johannes will see if we can use Jabber's document as a first draft.
Membership Draft
Going to use Digital ID world and that sort fo time to find charter members.
Bill has been in private communication with the larger players. Everyone seems to be blocked only on the IPR policy. Bill will check to make sure that the IPR policy is the only blocker for the prospectives.
It was acknowledged that little companies and individuals might not have such big IPR issues and may wish to go ahead and join now.
Motion: Membership committee is empowered to go forth and document publically the membership stuff and put mechanisms in place to accept memberships. Will coordinate with the marketing committee on content for the website.
Dick also joined the membership commitee.
There was conversation around the need to coordinate development of a membership sign-up page with the messaging discussion on the marketing list. And there is also the work that is in discussion on the marketing list about website design which requires coordination as well.
The 2.0 OpenID spec status was broached by Dick just as the call was about to end.
