Scott Kveton

The OpenID community is full of people that are helping to develop and promote the technology. Its the passion of these individuals out there every single day blogging, talking to people and doing their best to make the proliferation of OpenID a reality.

Snorri Giorgetti is one such individual. Snorri has been working tirelessly in Europe to help consolidate efforts around the OpenID Foundation in Europe. He’s invested his time and personal money to help make OpenID a reality as well as start the work of navigating the complicated IP and trademark landscape in Europe to help protect the communities assets.

I had the chance to meet with Snorri here in Corvallis a couple of weeks ago (he flew out to see me) and it was clear to me that he really gets OpenID. He’s passionate about what OpenID means and is really working hard to get the world out all over Europe.

I took the chance to share this with the OpenID Foundation board last week and wanted to see if there was something we could do to help endorse his work in Europe. After our call last week, we agreed to make Snorri our OpenID Foundation European Representative. Snorri was already active on the board mailing list and we’ll use this relationship as a means to continue to align the work that the US and EU foundations are doing.

This is great news and I hope this opens the door for representatives in other regions across the globe. Thanks Snorri for all of your hard work and keep it up … the best is yet to come … :-)