Posted at 3:33 pm on January 14, 2008 by The Shared Admin
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 OpenID today. About thirty-five people showed up and hacked, talked and shared. Sunday started out a bit slower though my noon everyone was back to cranking on a new OpenID test suite, XRI debugging, and OpenID usability with some focus on mobile (partially inspired by Chris’s blog post). Thanks to Vidoop for sponsoring breakfast, thanks MyStrands for sponsoring lunch and of course big props to Six Apart for hosting the event. A bunch of photos can be found up on Flickr under the “openiddevcamp” tag.
Much was done … here is just a sampling:
Additionally, getting an entire group of OpenID veterans was a great way for people to debug their problems and learn new things:
A few people got their Ruby on Rails blogs OpenID enabled for commenting. Getting the Java version of consumer library installed and figuring out what it takes to be a provider (hint: acting as a great provider is hard). Zentu now lets you login using OpenID!
Some takeaways and things the group would like to try to accomplish for next time:
Translate vCard attributes to Attribute Exchange schema end-points.
Planning and organizing OpenIDDevCamp really wasn’t that hard so if you’ve ever thought about putting together an event like this, you really should! Feel free to use this event’s wiki page as a template.
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Posted at 10:22 pm on January 9, 2008 by David Recordon
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 well as grow the ranks of the OpenID community. The event will be held at the San Francisco offices of Six Apart, and out-of-town guests are certainly welcome.
Attendees will include web designers, developers and testers all working together over the weekend to enable OpenID on their sites or just learn more about this technology. Bonus points go to folks who can help make OpenID more accessible to general users. Development projects will include both solo and team efforts. While some attendees will wish to work solo during the event, we encourage attendees to team up, based on expertise, to work in ad-hoc project development teams. All attendees should be prepared to work on a development project during the event.
If you’re already in San Francisco or will be coming into town for MacWorld, want to learn more about OpenID, you should definitely drop by. Please RSVP for OpenIDDevCamp on Upcoming. Maybe you’ll even find out from Yahoo! what is going on with OpenID tags on Flickr?
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