OpenID, the open standard for federated user identity across multiple websites, is led by the OpenID Foundation. That organization announced the election of its newest Board members today. These are the people who will be moving and shaking OpenID on a policy and standards level.
While systems like Facebook Connect and Twitter Auth are making fast progress in offering website users easy access to their primary identity, social and activity data when visiting sites all around the web – OpenID technology is making progress as well. Here are the three new leaders elected to help advance that agenda.
The OpenID Foundation has both Community and Corporate members. There is always one more community member than there is corporate members. You can see the as yet un-updated list of all the members here. Below are the three newly elected members.
Marc Frons, CTO for New York Times digital operations
At LinkedIn (Past gigs include Dow Jones, AOL and SmartMoney.com)
On Twitter (Joined April, 2009)
On Times People, the NYT link sharing network
Daniel Jacobson, Director of Application Development at NPR
On LinkedIn.
On Twitter.
Joined July, 2008, communicates with @nprtechteam, @magicmerl, @acarvin and @khopper.
John Bradley, engineer
On LiveJournal. Works on OpenID for government.
