SourceForge Allows OpenID Logins
If you use open source software then you’ve probably heard about SourceForge before. If you develop open source software then you’ve probably even used some of their infrastructure in the past. Today they’ve made it even easier to login to SourceForge with OpenID. SourgeForge.net isn’t acting as an OpenID Provider but rather is accepting OpenID […]
OpenIDDevCamp at CommunityOne 5/5/2008
What better way to spend Cinco de Mayo then with a bunch of your favorite OpenID community members learning more about OpenID? 🙂 Sun has offered to host an OpenIDDevCamp at their annual day-long CommunityOne developer conference the day before the start of JavaOne. Not only will you get a chance to talk with OpenID […]
BBC Joins OpenID Foundation
This week (April 22, 2008) the BBC Internet Blog informed readers it has become a member of the OpenID Foundation. Naturally this is exciting news and another indication of how OpenID has the clear potential and momentum to provide great value to users everywhere around the globe. BBC is one of, if not indeed, the […]
Thanks TechCrunch for Supporting Us!
Last week PopSugar and TechCrunch hosted a party in Los Angeles and managed to raise an incredible $13,250 to donate to to charity which they’ve graciously decided to split evenly between the DataPortability.org working group and the OpenID Foundation. We’re thrilled by their continuing support of the OpenID community and will use this money to […]
Supporting OpenID Communities Around the World
Earlier today in Tokyo, the OpenID Foundation along with eleven technology companies in Japan announced the formation of a Japanese chapter of the OpenID Foundation. Just as the OpenID Foundation’s board is made up of some of the top Internet companies around the World, these initial participants in this local chapter are some of the […]
Evolving the OpenID Foundation Board
This morning the OpenID Foundation announced that Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! have joined the board. The OpenID Foundation was formed in early 2006 by seven community members with the goal of helping promote, protect and enabling the OpenID technologies and community. Today’s announcement marks a milestone in the maturity and impact that the […]
The First OpenIDDevCamp was a Success
Over the past two and a half days, nearly fifty different people came to the first ever OpenIDDevCamp hosted in San Francisco. Nearly twenty people showed up Friday evening to start drawing up the agenda for Saturday from a list of possible projects. Saturday we had our first full day of discussions and hacking around […]
OpenIDDevCamp this Weekend in San Francisco
This weekend Six Apart will be hosting the first OpenIDDevCamp which is inspired by BarCamp, SuperHappyDevHouse, iPhoneDevCamp and MacHack, to develop web-based applications that use OpenID. It is a non-commercial event, organized by volunteers, with attendance free to all. By the completion of the weekend event we want to OpenID-enable many public web sites as […]
OpenID Intellectual Property Policy Approved
Its taken us months of effort but I’m happy to announce that the OpenID Foundation has finalized its intellectual property policy and process. During the 12/13/2007 OpenID Foundation board meeting, we approved the IP policy and process documents. The gist of this means that we have a process in place that will help the OpenID […]
OpenID 2.0…Final(ly)!
While its certainly been a long process in the making, we’re now quite excited to announce OpenID Authentication 2.0 and OpenID Attribute Exchange 1.0 as final specifications (“OpenID 2.0”). This morning was the closing day of the Internet Identity Workshop and David Recordon, Dick Hardt, and Josh Hoyt (three of the authors and editors) made […]