Identi.ca account

[Ryan Rix]

On Fri 18 June 2010 8:55:29 am Paul W. Frields wrote:
> 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.

This is true, I hadn't considered that... Maybe we can reach some sort of 
agreement with them. Though, couldn't that also be done on our end? I'm not 
completely sure how openid works, but it seems like it should be possible to 
do that sort of thing on our end, through the infra team.

If not, hopefully Evan will be able to help us

Ryan

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