[Systers-dev] Project Using Mailman Authentication

[Kathy Richardson]

I think the overall vision is that we would like to be able to offer 
other services to systers, including other ways  the community can come 
together, within that community.  One example, might be something like 
facebook with no visibility to the outside world.  Or a bulletin board 
for jobs, Or specific topic lists that are not quite in the main list 
charter.   Younger women use non-email communication and connections 
extensively.  Systers is looking to have the capability to expand our 
communication paradigms.  Thus the single sign-on project.

-Kathy

Terri Oda wrote:
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>
> Jaideep Khandelwal wrote:
>> 1.) Do we need to create a separate OpenID Provider according to systers
>> needs and including a consumer form just to accept only and only 
>> those ids
>> which has been created by our Open ID Provider   .
>
> I believe requiring people to use our own OpenID provider would negate 
> many of the benefits provided by OpenID (to whit: that Systers members 
> could use a more popular account of their choice rather than having to 
> remember yet another password).
>
> That said, it might be helpful for us to be an OpenID provider as 
> well, in case people would prefer to keep their Systers membership 
> separate for some reason... I believe this was discussed last year, 
> and I'm sure someone with a better memory than can fill you in on the 
> issues discussed then. :)
>
>> 2.)  Two statements for the idea has
>>      * Systers would like to use the mailing list membership info and
>> password to access other resources.
>>     **This project essentially aims at getting Single Sign On to work 
>> for
>> the various systers account using their mailman passwords for
>> authentication.
>>
>> *What does this '*other resources*' and '*various systers account*' 
>> include
>
> The first one that comes to mind is the systers wiki.  I imagine this 
> is also with an eye to future ideas, though, which is why it's 
> nebulous. For example, Jen mentioned doing a planet/blog aggregator: 
> if we had a nice single signon system, we might be able to let people 
> more easily add themselves and update their information.  But right 
> now, that could result in requiring yet another login...
>
>  Terri
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