[ubuntu-in] [Announcement] Ubuntu India site now supports OpenId

[Balaji Narayanan]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:26:11PM +0530, Onkar Shinde wrote: 
>On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Mehul Ved <mehul.n.ved at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 8/12/08, Aanjhan R <aanjhan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>  You need not
>>>  register on our wiki if you already have an OpenID
>>
>> Most of us do have OpenID accounts but are not aware of it. If you're
>> signed up with any of these services[1], you have got an OpenID
>> account.
>> I will try using one of my OpenID accounts.
>>
>> 1. http://openid.net/get/
>
>Friends,
>
>Let's try to be consistent as much as possible in selecting the openid
>provider. Launchpad provides openid to anyone who is registered there.
>Also now the main Ubuntu wiki [1] is using launchpad for
>authentication, so it will be nice if we can use the same.
>
>[1] http://wiki.ubuntu.com

The idea of openid is just to avoid that problem, isnt it. When we are
encouraging openid, why encourage just a specific provider.

-balaji