[OpenID] Putting the "open" back into OpenID - a call to the FSOSS community

tom tom at barnraiser.org
Thu Mar 27 06:07:21 UTC 2008


Hello folks,

I am fed up with those "I get the ID but not the open" comments that 
arrive under blogs written about OpenID. [ latest here -> 
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/24/is-openid-being-exploited-by-the-big-internet-companies/ 
]

It's time to fight back and it's the Free software and Open source 
(FSOSS) community that can best explain why OpenID is open and how the 
FSOSS is using it in an open way.

We (Barnraiser) have three amazing [being humble] free software products 
built around OpenID. We've been able to do that because it's open. We 
wish to collaborate with 9 other members of the FSOSS community to write 
an article entitled  "10 FSOSS initiatives embracing OpenID" and we want 
to publish that to Slashdot, Techcrunch etc.

We are looking for 9 other great, amazing and insanely awesome FSOSS 
projects that want to join with us in being in the article, so if you 
are one of those please write to me with a few sentences outlining your 
project to me.

Kind regards,

Tom



-- 
Tom Calthrop
Founding director, Barnraiser.

Dedicated to giving people the tools they need to share 
knowledge and advance society through social software.

Web site: http://www.barnraiser.org/
OpenID: http://tom.calthrop.info/




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