OpenID Foundation/Board/Minutes/2007-09-27
Present:
- Martin Atkins
- Johannes Ernst
- Scott Kveton
- Artur Bergman
- David Recordon
- Bill Washburn
- Drummond Reed
Apologies:
- Dick Hardt
Contents |
Agenda
- General business (vote on meeting minutes, finance update, etc)
- Corporate board seat proposals - Scott/Bill
- Website update - Scott
- IPR update - David/Bill
- Agenda additions
General Business
Meeting Minutes
The previous meeting's minutes were approved unanimously.
Corporate Board Seat Proposals
It was reported that the plan is currently to have four corporate board seats.
Two companies have confirmed that they will join following the satisfactory resolution of the IPR issues.
Eight other companies are reported to be considering corporate board membership.
The specific companies involved are omitted from the public record since there have been no final, binding commitments made.
The possibility of adding a fifth corporate board seat has been discussed. This would bring in an extra $50k annually, and it appears that there are enough interested companies to fill these seats.
An additional corporate board seat would also be joined by an additional community board seat. It is proposed that Snorri of the Europe Foundation provisionally fill this seat as a representative of Europe.
The main blocker at this point is finalizing the IPR documents.
It is planned to announce the corporate board seats in mid-November. This will also kick off the Foundation's membership drive.
We have also been asked to mention the upcoming IIW conference in the press about this subject.
Website Update
The website is coming along quickly. Vidoop have sent over some screenshots which David and Scott have reviewed.
David and Scott will be visiting Vidoop and finalize it in person.
It is currently planned to have a facility for users to "Click here to get an OpenID".
However, it is not clear at this point how exactly this will work.
Johannes noted that it must also allow for the fact that some users may have an OpenID identifier already (customers of Six Apart, AOL, etc) but not realise it.
David and Scott are going to discuss this with Vidoop and attempt to find a solution.
IPR Update
The policy, process and rationale documents have been released to the public on the mailing lists. There has been a small amount of feedback so far. Three conference calls are being scheduled over the next six weeks to finalize the process document. The three phone calls are to allow for the promised 30-day public review period.
We are urging people to make comments early, or at least tell us that they intend to make a comment to avoid last-minute surprises and ensure that this is completed on time.
Next Meeting
The next meeting of the board will be on Thursday 11th October.
