Re: Identi.ca account

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On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 01:45:22PM -0700, Ryan Rix wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxx> 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

It's not something we can do in Fedora infrastructure unilaterally --
that's not how OpenID works AFAIK.  The consumer (identi.ca) and the
provider (FAS) communicate directly when someone uses an OpenID
identity.  I'll keep looking into this.

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