A new chapter in the OIDF
The OpenID Foundation has covered a lot of ground in the last 1.5 years since its inception. We consolidated a number of internet identity efforts, built an organization charged with promoting and protecting the efforts of this fantastic community, developed an Intellectual Property Process that will ensure OpenID stays open, brought a number of the major vendors as participants in the community. and are seeing the first signs of deployment.
Bill Washburn has been the Executive Director of the OpenID Foundation since January 2007 and was instrumental in all these achievements. BIll took a leap of faith during the formation of the Foundation, working tirelessly on the promise that it we would succeed. Bill’s skills as a mediator and his passion for the Foundation’s mission made the impossible possible. In short, without Bill, the OpenID Foundation would not exist. We, as a community, owe a huge debt of gratitude to him for all of the work that he has done.
As is true with any growing organization, a time comes when a different set of skills are needed as the organization moves from one phase to another. That time has come for the Foundation. The Foundation now needs a more operationally focused Executive Director to deliver on the Foundation’s new needs. Bill Washburn will remain on to help with the recruiting and transition. If you think you have the right stuff for the OpenID Foundation, please drop us a line at board@openid.net.
May 28th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
[...] This seems more like fired for not pushing OpenID hard enough. The job is still vacant. It is a pity I am already the Executive Director of OpenSignOn [...]
June 5th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
The fact that the foundation is going to the consecutive stage means that it is developing. It is very nice that it is going this way. You are needed. Congratulations
June 17th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
thanks a lot, I guess open ID will be a lot useful in the future
June 19th, 2008 at 10:45 am
I agreed with mitoman, it’s reported that the pediawiki and many other sns sites will support the open id.
July 6th, 2008 at 12:41 am
I’m waiting for the day when WordPress blogs use OpenID. Just created site number 140′ish and once again there’s another user pass to remember.
July 6th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
I think OpenID is very useful now! :)
July 8th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
I’m a little disappointed with the direction taken by OpenID following the inception of the OpenID Foundation. OpenID 1.1 was elegant simplicity, easy to implement and very straightforward. OpenID 2.0 reeks of “design by committee.” It looks as if the technologies being developed by all of the foundation members were simply mashed together without removing any unnecessary cruft, and now the spec has a jumble of extra features and requirements that make it unnecessarily complex.
July 8th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Hi.could you just tell me how to get the id.Im a kid and need more help with this stuff. now i cant get on my yahoo and I NEED MY YAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!