Steven Osborn » SourceForge

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steve918 — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:00:45 +0000

The company I work for, SourceForge sent me this today. I think they are trying to tell me something.

Apparently a reference to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshirt_(character)

SourceForge Ships OpenID!!

steve918 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:03:10 +0000

SourceForge.net shipped support for OpenID this morning followed by an official announcement on their community forums. In just a few seconds I had my OpenID tied to my existing SF account. Their implementation seems very solid and straight forward.

This certainly makes them one of the largest, most prominent OpenID Relying parties to date.
I sure hope this leads to all of OSTG websites ( Slashdot, Thinkgeek, Freshmeat, etc…) following suit.

Their front page now advertises: 1,840,049 Users + 250,000,000 OpenIDs

Their OpenID management screen is really hot; It allows you to add additional OpenIDs to your account, decide which one you want to make public (if any) and choose one to delegate your SourceForge.net endpoint to. So developers can use http://sourceforge.net/users/username as their OpenID endpoint.

Digg It!

SourceForge OpenID RP in the works.

steve918 — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:50:23 +0000

Luke Crouch, one of SourceForge’s developers left a subtle message today in their community forums hinting at what OpenID features they’ve been working on recently.

It looks like they will be shipping a full on RP implementation along with delegation support for their developer profile pages.

“dedicated Identity Providers can focus on delivering comprehensive digital online identity services for web users, while we need to focus on those users’ needs as OSS community participants.” — Luke Crouch

I’m really excited to see SF leading the pack in the OpenID world. Their RP offerings will certainly be a valuable contribution to the community.