We’re pleased to announce that Jim Risner, President & Co-founder of Votigo, has been nominated to the Board of Directors for the OpenSocial Foundation.   The OpenSocial Foundation is a non-profit corporation created to sustain the free and open development of OpenSocial specifications.  The Foundation helps facilitate the development of new specifications and ensures that the technical direction remains in the hands of the community.

Please go here to VOTE for Jim.

Here’s more information about the OpenSocial Foundation.

The (initial) Board of Directors (5 of the 7):

* Anil Dharni, hi5
* David Glazer, Google
* Joe Greenstein, Flixster
* Allen Hurff, MySpace
* Sam Pullara, Yahoo!
* TBD #1, Community Representative
* TBD #2, Community Representative
* TBD directors will be determined by the community (that’s you!)

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