March 2007 - September 2008

My participation to the development of OpenID

At the service of the OpenID Community since March 2007, founder of OpenID Europe in June of 2007, I was named European Representative for OIDF in September 2007. I have spent the last eighteen months offering part of my time to assist in the development of OpenID.

I am determined to continue my efforts in 2009 and well beyond that, and to devote all of my time to the foundation, in the framework of an official, meaningful promotion of my present status with OIDF, with monetary compensation. In this framework, I will be able to build on, consolidate and amplify what I have accomplished so far, engaging fully in the job, going to “Full speed.”

You will find below a list of my accomplishments for OpenID. Please take into account that this work has been done alone, without any support or guidance from OIDF. Please imagine what I could do tomorrow, working side by side with you.

Already familiar with many aspects of OpenID, I would be able to get to work immediately—for we all know that time is of the essence.

MANAGEMENT OF THE CONTINENT/ LOCAL CHAPTERS & GLOBAL OPENID COMMUNITY

          

Creation, legal registration and leadership of the OpenID Europe Foundation to support the legality of all efforts made to deploy OpenID in Europe (43 countries);

Nomination of National Representatives for OpenID (28) in Europe, e.g.: Newly Appointed OpenID Macedonian Representative;

Pre-selection of potential representatives in 30 other countries outside Europe;

Creation of associated subsidiaries (Local Chapters) and official in the respective countries (France, Switzerland, Argentina…);

Fifteen (15) new Local Chapters are presently in preparation (each with an infrastructure capable of bringing them to a level equal to that of France), in Europe (Poland, Sweden, UK, Greece …), but also in Asia (Thailand, China, Korea, New Zealand), in the Middle East (Iran), in Africa (South Africa), and in South America (Brazil)…;

Creation of a series of legal documents (Policies, Bylaws), introduction and preparation of a “Strategic Kit” allowing Local Chapters to find their legal legs more quickly;

I am permanently in contact with the OpenID Community and I am also proactively contacting its members, e.g.: trip to Totnes (UK Parliament constituency) in the UK to confer with directly with Mark Cross (OpenID UK) to find solutions…;

Worldwide Community Founding of organizations on four continents: OpenID Europe (June 2007), inception of OpenID Asia and, soon to come, "OpenID Africa & Middle East,” and “OpenID Latin America";

A series of domain names were made available to numerous Communities to enable them to launch sites and the necessary Internet tools in their own language (typically, OpenID.gTLDs).

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LEGAL & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

                 

Relationships established with law firms and intellectual property rights advocacy offices in over 80 countries;

Legal proceedings / resolution out of court in countries (such as Korea) where the OpenID brand or protocol were not used according to the guidelines of the Foundation or the philosophy behind OIDF;

Lended my participation to the crafting of OIDF Local Chapter’s policy and to the drafting of new policies, such as the OpenID Logo Policy;

Drafting, for OIDE, of various policies such as the OIDE Trademark Policy or the National Chapter Policy;

Protection of the OpenID Brand at the WIPO level: enter "OpenID" here, at the OHMI (Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) and in 35 other countries in the world;

Donation/assignment of the European OpenID name brand registered in 33 countries made personally to OIDE for the sum of 1€;

Acknowledgement by OIDE of the OIDF Local Chapter Policy for the sharing of name brands for the sake of uniformization at the global level;

Purchase and hosting of strategic domain names (240) for OpenID (see openid.asia, OpenID.co.in, OpenID.sg, OpenID*.xx…).

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FINANCE, BUSINESS & GOVERNANCE

Investment—without any expectation of a ROI—of over $80,000.00 for OpenID in the accomplishment of all actions mentioned above, namely with third parties (lawyers and law offices, travel, lodging, domain names…)

Financial support has been obtained from European businesses (Membership revenue totals €43.540,00) and funds from local chapters; these funds have been redistributed;

Proposal of the creation within OIDF of an “International Board” of five members (one per continent) to open OIDF to the world;

Proposal to make OIDE a Corporate/Founding Member of OIDF so as to bring its financial support and contributions to the annual revenue (several exchanges of emails with Bill Washburn) and that Local Chapters, as a rule, collect funds for OIDF;

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ADMINISTRATION & MANAGEMENT

               

All documents printed, archived (one entire cabinet, twenty-five binders), sorted by countries;

Approximately 3 500 emails answered (archived) concerning all types of questions related to OpenID (potential RPs, requests for partnership, developers, Local Communities, media, reporters, press agents…)

My small contribution to mailing lists or committees (local chapters) + Management of the EU Mailing List;

Initiation of the Normalization Process of OpenID specifications to a European standards body;

Initiation of a set of indispensible Technical Documentations and efforts to have them translated in several languages;

Acquisition (purchase/negotiations) of a strategic domain name for OpenID, held by other members of the Community or simply “cyber squatted” (e.g. : assignment of OpenID.dk);

Management of the OIDF Locals Chapters page on OpenID.net

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COMMUNICATION,  EVENTS & MEETINGS:

                 

Published Press Releases (in France and Switzerland);

Regular contacts with the Press, interviews, articles published in various magazines;

Preparation of a trip to Asia (10 days per country) to boost OpenID (with organization of an OpenID Event);

Participation to all events concerning digital identity (as Speaker), organizing OpenID dinners/meetings in European cities and capitals, e.g.: Berlin, Basel in Switzerland;

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MARKETING:

                 

Marketing actions such as the Opening of the OpenID Store (delivery of gifts, exclusively in Europe);

Text translations to ease the comprehension of the OpenID concept;

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STRATEGY & VISION:

              

Creation of the Openid’09 Program with an invitation extended to the Community (40 participants) to work on a wiki road map.

For more information, please refer to http://wiki.openid2009.org/

LOBBYING & NETWORKING:

                 

Participation to all events concerning digital identity, organizing OpenID dinners/meetings in European cities and capitals, e.g.: Berlin, Basel in Switzerland;

Multiple meetings with CEOs and decision makers in corporations or major Internet Sites, e.g.: Jean-Bernard Levy, Chairman of Vivendi (Music, TV, Telco…);

Establishing and maintaining relationships with persons motivated to support OpenID in over 45 countries, even in small countries: e.g.: a computer school in Iraq or an entrepreneur/writer in Armenia (Albert Poghosyan)…;

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DEVELOPMENT OF OPENID IN THE FIELD OF E-COMMERCE:

                 

Realization de various studies to bolster OpenID (RPs) with regard to e-commerce, e.g.: “Today one Internet User in 2 (50% of users) abandon the registration process the moment they are asked to fill in a form;”

Meetings with E-commerce organizations such as FEVAD, to which most European sites participate with as objective the organization of a Journée (Day long Event), devoted to “The Advantages of OpenID” in each capital;

Meetings with e-commerce sites to understand what prevents them from implementing OpenID, resolve their problems and lead them to introduce OpenID in their sites;

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PARTNERSHIPS & COBRANDING:

                 

Bank/Loyalty Programs Meetings with banking organizations and large distribution groups which have an interest in pilot programs and trial runs for their consumer loyalty development programs (Loyalty Cards with OpenID)…;

Pooling of interests with NICs/National registrars (DNS.lu or AFNIC) to launch projects such as “1 domain name = 1 OpenID + 1 Digital Identity for Each Internetter;”

With several SSIIs to implement OpenID e.g.: AF83 (Louis Montagne, CEO);

The French Government (with which we have made tangible progress in promoting OpenID) will be presiding the European Union in 2009. This may offer a tangible opportunity to boost OpenID deployment in Europe—thanks to contacts we have established with several “Commissions”;

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OTHER PROJECTS:

                 

Meeting with ICANN for the launching of dotOpenID:  gained a first sponsorship for an amount of $50,000.00 and an invitation to the OpenID Community to decide on the feasibility and value of the project ;

Local Initiatives, Regional projects with contacts at the local government level or at a University or City level:  e.g.: “One OpenID for each Parisian” with the “Mairie de Paris”…;

Various Projects we intend to rework during the next few months, e.g.: OpenID Source (the Developers Community) or OpenID World (Usage Statistics);

Creation of a new OpenID Directory (in preparation) containing an OpenIDDemand assembled from each Local Chapter to be able to measure in real time the evolution of adoptions and gather adoption and usage statistics;

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