[Marketing] Website Design - Get an OpenID Link

[Simon Willison]

On 8/2/07, Luke Sontag <luke.sontag at vidoop.com> wrote:
> What are everyone's thoughts on having a link to a list of OP's on the
> openid.net site.  The link would go to a list of OP's that are members of
> the foundation (meet membership criteria). The order of the list would
> change each time the page loaded or refreshed (so as to not prefer one OP
> over another).
>
> The current state of the site and the fact that end users go there to learn
> or find an OP, I believe is definitely a major point of confusion.

I've lost count of the number of people who have told me "I wanted to
give OpenID a go, but it took me the best part of an hour just to get
one for myself so there's no way I'll use it on my site". This is a
very real problem, and a major barrier to adoption. The political side
of it is tricky but needs to be figured out.

Foundation membership sounds like it could be a solution here - not a
perfect one, but I'm pretty sure a perfect one doesn't (and can't)
exist.