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

[Jørn Wildt]

Hi Tom

I don't know if the upcoming .8 version of PostNuke constitutes a "great,
amazing and insanely awesome FSOSS project" - but it is Open Source, I find
it great - and it supports OpenID as a relying party. See
http://community.postnuke.com/Article2892.htm 

Unfortunately neither PostNuke .8 is released, nor any OpenID module ... so
why write this? Because, hopefully, both will happen very soon. I am
personally writing an add-on module for OpenID login which is based on what
Plaxo does. This should be ready in start April. PostNuke .8 has been close
to release for, well, years :-( But much points to it being released in
April too (I hope).

So, if you find these "maybes" usefull, feel free to contact me.

/Jørn

-----Original Message-----
From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
Behalf Of tom
Sent: 27. marts 2008 07:07
To: OpenID List
Subject: [OpenID] Putting the "open" back into OpenID - a call to the
FSOSScommunity

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-in
ternet-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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