After doing a bit of research in OpenID (I’m a complete novice other than thinking “oh – that’s cool” one day) I think it would be a great system to keep multiple pcmtv.org domains and development environments running smoothly.
For those of you who are like me and don’t know much about it there’s a great video tutorial of the concept here.
As I was doing some research it seemed to make the most sense to me for PCM to offer to be an Identity Provider and offer people user.pcmtv.org as their ID.
Since we're working in Drupal – “hey – there’s a module for that!” Openid_Provider works pretty well on my personal sandbox site, petepo.com, and I just added OpenID_Provider_Persona which will be re-worked sometime soon.
This could make easy, seemless transitions between multi-site deployment people at PCM have been talking about lately (EX: pdxym.pcmtv.org, portlandspeaks.pcmtv.org, multimediaservices.pcmtv.org, smartaccess.pcmtv.org, openmedia.pcmtv.org…) and allow an easy email key for Civi to talk to them all.
This could also be a fantastic way to encourage virtual community between organizations using the Open Media Toolset and offer an easy way to encourage producers at our stations to be more adventurous on the web.
Any thoughts from partners? As I said I'm pretty novice in this.
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The future is looking bright
The future is looking bright for OpenID in Drupal. Take a look at the OpenID Roadmap alex_b posted. Having worked with OpenID outside of Drupal, Drupal's implementation needs some work.
One of the reasons I'd like to see a larger OpenID adoption in this project is licensing and control of content as it moves between locations. OpenID has the potential to allow producers to retain some control over their content if we include their OpenID information in the metadata.