A couple related posts caught my attention recently about OpenID. As I’m now a board member of the OpenID Foundation, I feel some responsibility for helping to inform folks about OpenID: what it is, how it’s used, why I believe that it has so much potential — and at same time, address what it isn’t, [...]
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 [...]
This is the statement (credit to Michael Richardson for my campaign slogan) that I submitted to answer the call, nominating myself as a candidate for community representative to the OpenID Foundation board: I have long been involved with the OpenID community and have advocated for its adoption ever since I discovered it. It is a [...]