OpenID Foundation/Board/Minutes/2007-09-13
Meeting opened at 19:00 UTC
Present:
- Johannes
- Bill
- Scott (scribe)
- David
- Dick
- Drummond
Contents |
Agenda
- General business (approve minutes, updates to agenda, etc)
- IPR update - David
- Marketing update - Dick
- Proposal from Snorri re: OpenID Europe Foundation
- Proposal from American Cancer Society
- Plans for Digital ID World
- Website updates
IPR update
Another good week of work here and looking to get feedback from users/community on this. Bill asked for best ways to do this and we came up with mail to list, get it up on site and board members blog about it.
We need a mechanism for handling comments from the community and doing so in a timely fashion. This is an action item for the IPR committee.
There will be an IPR gathering at DIDW to discuss, give comments, etc. More below.
Marketing update
Dick didn't have time to do much but he has flights coming up and hopes to do something during that time. He gave his apologies for not working on this.
Snorri proposal about OpenID Europe
Scott discussed the proposal put forth by Snorri around having OpenID Europe and OpenID Foundation work closer together and/or be endored by the OIDF.
The OIDF will create a position of "OpenID Foundation European Representative" and ask if Snorri would be willing to serve in this capacity. Scott will contact Snorri regarding this proposed action item and then formalize accordingly should he agree. This also opens the door for representatives from other regions such as Asia, South America, etc.
ACS proposal
The American Cancer Society wants to do a marketing campaign to promote the use of OpenID on their soon-to-be released OpenID provider. This would be done with a dollar-for-dollar match for users who sign up with their provider. We as a board will not endorse any one effort like this but individually we're more than welcome to blog, etc.
Plans for Digital ID World
We were planning on doing a membership drive at DIDW but we're not in a position to do this yet.
Dick mentioned focusing on the low-hanging fruit and/or people that we know are ready to participate.
We will give updates around IPR at a session and also discuss membership possibilities but we're not ready to start taking checks. We will do this session around a lunch and coordinate with interested partners and David will mention it during his OpenID talk.
Website updates
Vidoop continues to offer up help to develop website for us. They are going to work on a membership page for us. Dick wants to help drive this as part of the marketing committee and Bill is going to get him the contact information to start working with them on it. Scott mentioned the need to make sure we can support whatever it is they are doing (with a reasonable CMS we can run on our infrastructure).
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Meeting closed at 19:59 UTC
