June 2006

This is just a place holder for now until I have time to get some more information up. I’m absolutely thrilled about the new opportunity with JanRain … I’m excited about working with these guys … they are a really sharp crew and I can’t wait to see what we can all do together.

I’m really looking forward to engaging with the rest of the identity community as well … I’ve been introduced to a lot of you already and I’d just like to say I can already see a really healthy bit of co-opetition (yes, that’s a real word … I found it on the Internet … ha!) in this space and the sky really is the limit. Thanks everybody for the warm welcome.

The best is yet to come.

I wanted to let people know that as of June 30th, 2006 I’ll no longer be working at the OSL. I’m moving on to head up a company in Portland called JanRain, Inc. You can read more about it from OSU’s press release.

I want to make it clear this is an amicable split and one that was simply a function of a great opportunity that I had to take. The OSL is in great shape and the University is still completely backing our on-going efforts here. The OSL will continue on and they will probably find somebody to replace me that makes me look bad … Ha!

This isn’t the end, just a change. I’m excited about the new endeavor but it was really hard to leave such an amazing team of individuals. Most of all, I have to thank Curt Pederson and more importantly Shay Dakan (sorry Curt, Shay’s got you beat on this one) … In all honesty, Shay has done more for the open source community than that community knows. She was the one who took the chance on my crazy idea and trusted Jason and I to run it. The OSL, all of its employees and the hosted partners all owe a deep debt of gratitude to Shay. Thanks Shay.

I’ve setup a new blog to start talking about the new gig and I really hope to keep in touch with all of the great people I’ve worked with here at the OSL and in the open source community. Hope to see all of you in Portland this Summer for OSCON!!!