[OpenID] SourceForge becoming an OpenID Relying Party?

Sam Alexander sam.alexander at vidoop.com
Mon Apr 14 20:44:53 UTC 2008


Up on planet.openid.net right now is a post that indicates that  
SourceForge will become an OpenID Relier soon.

If this is true, this will introduce alot of *developers* to OpenID in  
a real way, and could potentially be a great site to mention for those  
of us evangelizing to that dev crowd.

This would also be one of those (few) great examples of an established  
website willingly taking on the role of an RP as opposed to an OP.   
SourceForge seems to be one of the sites that "gets" that problem:

 From lukecrouch @ sourceforge:

"... while I think every addition to OpenID adoption is invaluable,  
there also seems to be an imbalance between Identity Provider and  
Relying Party implementations among some of us "old guard" websites,  
so if we initially stay out of the IdP side maybe that'll help to  
sorta equalize the balance."

Anyway, a heads up to all of you evangelists out there, keep an eye  
open for this.

- Sam



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