[OpenID] Changes to the website coming soon ...

[Scott Kveton]

Hey David,

> I still have the question of why not MovableType 4 since it supports OpenID
> within the core?  Wordpress has OpenID support as a plugin, so despite the
> fact that I do work for Six Apart, I feel that we as a community should be
> supporting the technologies and products which support us.
> (http://www.movabletype.com/blog/2007/09/openid-built-in-with-mt4.html)

The same could be said for Drupal, Joomla, etc.

>  If there are any doubts in terms of if MovableType can do this, one
> installation runs http://movabletype.org/ and http://movabletype.com/.  Take
> a look at the following posts as well:

Honestly, I can't speak for MovableType but I know I'm going to be one
of the people maintaining this ... I know WordPress and am comfortable
with it in this environment ... sounds like you know MovableType
pretty well so we could/would have our bases covered there.

The Vidoop folks appear to be pretty far along with the WordPress
theme as well as the accompanying PHP scripts to drive some of the
forms for getting an OpenID, etc.  We're pretty far along here I think
and switching gears this late in the game (when we have 3 days)
doesn't make a lot of sense to me.  I just want this done.

What language is MovableType in?  I also like the idea of PHP for the
CMS (WordPress) and PHP for the wiki (MediaWiki) ... keeps things
pretty simple for us from an upgrade/management perspective.

>  If the issue is unfamiliarity, that is something that should be easy to
> resolve since I do work at Six Apart. :)

Oh, and I don't think you get a say in this because you stuck us with
BML for so stinkin' long ... haha ... :-)  I kid, I kid ... :-)

- Scott