MSG now accepts OpenID identities
New MSG login page
MSG will now accept OpenID Identity URLs to log in with. When you first log in with your OpenID identity you’ll be asked if you want to associate your OpenID with an existing MSG account, or you can create a new MSG account (without a password obviously!) .
As far as I’m aware MSG is the first instant messenger system to offer open registration and the ability to login with an OpenID identity (feel free to let me know if I’m wrong about this 
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I also have an OpenID server up and running (at: http://openid.open.ac.uk) and anyone is free to sign up for an OpenID identity with it, but please bear in mind that this is still an experimental service (I’m still tinkering!)
Next steps are some more testing and then having a look at trying one of the PHP OpenID libraries running as a consumer (plus making this blog OpenID enabled…)
Rust never sleeps, eh.
I’ve asked a question down at the tools forum. http://labspace.open.ac.uk/mod/forum/view.php?f=34
If you have the time could you reply down there before Chrissie, thanks.
I hoping we might be able to look at some twinning next year with a few other networks including WikiFoundation stuff. I’ll leave the engineering stuff to you (and a few others) so this thread isn’t for anything technical. I’m trying to see if, apart from the obvious = a user not having to log in, if OpenID offers “levels” of authority, so e.g you and your peers could share spaces on different networks (primarily as a training ground).
Also (a bit off the track) I’m trying to find an OS forum software which could do much of what sitepoint.com’s do. The aim is to have a ‘half way house’ between wikiprojects, OU’s and others which acts as a place for ‘foreigners’ to get orientated.
If you have an interest would you post a reply here. http://wikieducator.org/Talk:Community_building_project#lqt_thread_754
Many thanks and Regards.