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

[Byrne Reese]

This is Byrne, I work with David, and while I am lurker in the OpenID
community I was one of the original folks at Six Apart working with Brad and
Randy and David in the project's early incubation.

I also happen to be the Product Manager for Movable Type and was
instrumental in ensuring that Movable Type supported OpenID in the core, and
supported a framework that makes it easy for developers to build enhanced
OpenID login flows, which I used to develop the Wordpress OpenID plugin for
Movable Type [1].

There is absolutely no sense is stopping progress and disrupting momentum.
So I won't advocate that we stop and retool.

But I would like to say that I think it is important to support those
products that support OpenID. That *prioritize* supporting OpenID. Because
every choice we make as a community is a statement. And those statements
matter.

It may be too late for this project, but if in the future it is ever a
question about a lack of knowledge or support that is the basis for the
decisions we make I would like to offer my services and expertise in any
future plans regarding Movable Type.

[1] 
http://www.majordojo.com/projects/wordpress-openid-plugin-for-movable-type.p
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