Re: [xwiki-devs] Possible project ideas for XWiki in GSoC 2009

For some strange reason, I think this is an excellent idea :-) Of these, which has the easiest to integrate: http://www.google.com/friendconnect/ http://developers.facebook.com/connect.php http://developer.myspace.com/Community/blogs/devteam/archive/2008/12/09/int… Friendconnect has always looked most interesting of the lot, since it will give you a variety of customizable friendconnect "widgets" . Once you request and customize a particular instance, google generates the code and presents it in a scrollable textarea. Reusing the framework of one of Xwiki's existing panels is a good way to wrap Google Friendconnect socialnetworking into an Xwiki site. You'd basically take the code and paste it into the panel document. Then layout one or more of the google panels into the "sidebars" in Xwiki. This permits xwiki to layout the friendconnect panels as if they were :"one of it's own." Probably the easiest first-experiment would be to take an existing panel that you probably don't use, like /xwiki/bin/inline/Panels/Welcome; as 'Admin' click "edit" and then paste in the google code between #panelheader("Welcome") and #panelfooter(). Later, create more via http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Panels/CreatePanel ... This video shows what happens on the google-side: http://www.youtube.com/v/N94s7ix0JPo&hl=en&autoplay=1 I haven't looked at friendconnect's OpenID implementation so I don't know how it would coexist or overlap w/ Xwiki's auth. I'd assume you'd create an implementation per http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/platform/core/trunk/xwiki-core/src/main/… follow instructions in http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Authentication#HCustomA… You mentioned GSOC 2008 and http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/SSOAndOpenIDSupport... what is the status of any code completed to date? Niels http://nielsmayer.com On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Thilina Buddhika <thilinamb(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: