On Oct 11, 2010, at 4:22 PM, Per Eriksson wrote: > Some of the pros of OpenID are: > > * No need to register additional accounts. Only the need to apply rights to > accounts in enabled systems. > * Saves time for the user. > * Can be reused by the user for other services outside TDF. > * Already several implementations for open source programming languages. > * Well-known > > And some cons: > > * Somewhat higher security risk. On the other hand, we don't store financial > data or something similar. > * If you get any problems with your account, it will affect all services. > > What do others think? Do we have other technologies to concider? Or any > objections/additions to the list? :-)
I think OpenID would be a major benefit, and I know it would be well-received by technical members. For the less geeky, I suggest we also support Facebook Connect. In addition to the single sign-on benefits, it can also propagate TDF activity out to members' activity streams and contacts. As a presentation I recently attended suggested, "marketing should be built-in to the product." In our case, we'd be facilitating a stream of TDF related news back to Facebook by the simple act of participating (with user approval), which means more, and more-continuous, promotion of our work. This is sometimes called an "amplifier effect." -Ben Benjamin Horst [email protected] 646-464-2314 (Eastern) www.solidoffice.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail to [email protected] List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/website/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted.
