I’ve had a lot of different projects, communities and people come to me and say “Hey, I want to learn more about OpenID and I’d really like some help on implementing it for my site.” Ask for and ye shall receive.
I’m excited to announce what I hope is the first of many Mash Pit: OpenID events. We really wanted to do an event that was more hacking than talks. We figured doing something like a MashPit was the best way to do that. We’ll have a good group of OpenID-savvy people here that day covering languages like PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl and others. Bring your laptop and yourself and we’ll help you OpenID enable your application, site or kitchen sink.
The first event will be 1/17/2006 at 4pm here in beautiful Portland, OR and hosted by JanRain (full-disclosure: these guys are awesome)*. More information can be found at the wiki or the Upcoming.org listing.
* - Super full-disclosure: I work at JanRain … :-)
Update: Tweaked links to move over to mashpit.pbwiki.com.
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November 16, 2006 at 11:04 am
Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves
Say, if one would bring a Linux kernel, would it be possible to create a version with OpenID enabled sign-in’s for users? Because that would be an awesome use of OpenID on applications. Although, I suppose it would be quite complex to implement.
Another issue: Your blog’s comments OpenID option is not working properly. When I tried to use my OpenID, your wordpress installation prompted me for an account on your database, which obviously, I don’t have. So I had to resort to “anonymous” posting.
November 16, 2006 at 2:11 pm
kveton
Testing OpenID comments!
November 16, 2006 at 8:19 pm
Kevin Turner
Ivo,
If you’ve got an application that does authentication in the kernel, we can give it a shot. However, just about every application I’m aware of does authn in userspace, not the kernel. (The one I’m not sure about is the kernel NFS server.) And we’ll have to either drop in to userspace to spawn a browser, or do some seriously off-the-wall brainstorming about how to get the users credentials to the IdP.
You may also want to talk to Rohan Pinto, who was inspired by the OpenID bounty program to attempt a OpenID authentication module for Linux PAM.