I received an SMS from Michael Richardson this morning (around 8am here in Hawaii) congratulating me on my election to the board of the OpenID Foundation. It seems fitting that I should receive first word from him, since, as the Karl Rove of my campaign, he came up with the “kind of a big deal” [...]
The OpenID Foundation board election opened up on December 10. After a grueling nominations process (not really), we were left with 17 candidates vying for seven community board member seats. Your candidates are (alphabetized by first name): Allen Tom Brian Kissel Chris Messina ← that’s me! David Recordon Dick Hardt Eran Hammer-Lahav Eric Sachs Johannes [...]
My buddy whurley is at it again, but this time considering which candidate(s) is the most compatible or supportive of open source — in other words, among the many options, which could be considered the “open source candidate”? Just as I voted for Obama yesterday, I voted for Obama today. I’m not sure why, except [...]