[Marketing] Website Design - Get an OpenID Link

[Bill Washburn]

+1

Just speaking from a practical perspective, we must immediately eliminate this clear and present "barrier to entry."  We can and must be sensitive to all the important political sensitivities in the community, yes definitely.  

Still, at a minimum, let's provide a list of providers (with the randomly varying order) right now, before any more time is lost.

It's important to remember the old saying, "You can only make a first impression once."  So, if we're serious in our commitment to ALL end-users when we talk about user-centric, then we simply have to do something along these lines.
cheers,
-bill




----- Original Message ----
From: Scott Kveton <scott at kveton.com>
To: OpenID marketing <marketing at openid.net>
Sent: Friday, August 3, 2007 9:44:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Marketing] Website Design - Get an OpenID Link

> What are everyone's thoughts on having a link to a list of OP's on the
> openid.net site.  The link would go to a list of OP's that are members of
> the foundation (meet membership criteria). The order of the list would
> change each time the page loaded or refreshed (so as to not prefer one OP
> over another).
>
> The current state of the site and the fact that end users go there to learn
> or find an OP, I believe is definitely a major point of confusion.

Let's not let this thread die ... :-)

I like the idea of presenting the user with a list of providers
randomly chosen and annotated with their key features.  We have to get
_something_ up for this.

Luke: is this something you guys could do for us?  I'd be more than
happy to get it up on OpenID.net.

Once we start accepting memberships for the Foundation, we could
mention that in the listing for the site but need to make it clear
that is not an endorsement.  We just need to get something up there.

Thoughts?

- Scott
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