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

[David Recordon]

Hey Tom,
Between LiveJournal and now Movable Type Open Source, we're game.  I'd  
love to see this end up as something published by the Foundation, for  
whatever that ends up meaning. :)

--David

On Mar 26, 2008, at 11:07 PM, tom wrote:

> 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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