[Marketing] How to convince developers to implement OpenID

Kyle law tuxmasternew at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 11:37:40 UTC 2008


I apologize if this has already been covered I don't have time to look
though the archives. A lot of the problem with development communities
especially in the open source environment. If you have one person come
up to you ad say hay I would like this. They shrug you off as who are
you to ask for a feature request. We are the development community we
are busy enough as it is. In there defense they are. 

I think it would be nice if the OpenID community as a hole develops a
site that we can "vote" for what websites(or web application suites) we
would like to use OpenID on. Armed with those number we can go these
developers and say this many people want OpenID integrated into your
<enter software package here>. Here is a bit of information about OpenID
please integrate it into your core of your login program and have it on
by default.

This raises to my second issue with the developers and why it is Openid
to be distributed on things that it just makes sense that it should be.
What a lot of developers developers are doing now is just creating login
modules to implement openid.(This is good) I don't think they understand
that they don't have to take out usernames and passwords completely. Or
oh openID that is for the bogging community. The problem with modules
however it is not a default and if it is not a default then we would
have to put pressure on the individual sites to incorporate it. Instead
I think we need to find a way to convince the forum developers to enable
it by default and let people disable it if they want too. The early days
of the Internet started out on bulletin boards. I think that is a great
place to really put pressure on to have them implement with openID. 

Just some thoughts comments on this are welcome. 






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