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

[James Walker]

I'm pretty sure Drupal constitutes a "great, amazing and insanely  
awesome FSOSS" project ... we're game. I'll do my best to match your  
hyperbole ;-)

On 27-Mar-08, at 11:48 AM, David Recordon wrote:
> 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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