Identi.ca account

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 07:31:02PM -0700, Ryan Rix wrote:
> On Thu 17 June 2010 5:30:09 pm Luke Slater wrote:
> > On 18 June 2010 01:28, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 01:08:26AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > >> On 06/18/2010 01:05 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > >> > Thanks to the good folks at StatusNet, we now have the identi.ca
> > >> > @fedora account.  Salient points:
> > >> > 
> > >> > * The account is connected to the Twitter @fedora acount.  Posts to
> > >> >   Identi.ca will be echoed to Twitter, which is how we wanted to roll.
> > >> > 
> > >> > * I think most security-minded people, including me, reject the idea
> > >> >   of sharing passwords.  However, there is an obfuscated email address
> > >> >   through which people can post to the identi.ca account.  I'll send
> > >> >   that to the socialmedia group members
> > >> 
> > >> Thanks for securing this account.  I would like be part of that group.
> > >> I understand I can post via the email address but what about responding
> > >> to people on identi.ca and twitter?  How can I do that?
> > > 
> > > Should work the same way, using the person's @username first -- as far
> > > as how that impacts threading, I don't know.
> > > 
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> > Hello,
> > 
> > Unfortunately it's would destroy the threading. I was just wondering
> > if there was some way we could have shared access to the XMPP format
> > of posting. That would be ideal.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> 
> What about OpenID urls for login? We could have everyone in fedora-socialmedia 
> provide their OpenID urls, which would be associated with the account. Then 
> all they have to do is log in with that via the webui. Of course, as Fedora 
> doesn't provide an OpenID login (hmmmm, RFE anyone? :) ) mechanism, this could 
> be difficult (I currently am using my wordpress account as an OpenID provider, 
> but want to move to providing OpenID for myself; what happens when I change 
> providers? What about members without an openid provider?)

That's a great idea Ryan!

The only trouble I'm having is that I can't enter an OpenID url
without confirming it in the browser by actually logging into FAS.
Kind of a chicken and egg problem!

I'll see if I can get StatusNet to simply enter as "confirmed" the
list of fedora-socialmedia members' OpenID urls.


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