Hi Vincent, Thank you for your reply and guidance. I'll try to get my self familiarized with XWiki until things are sorted out. Thanks. best regards, /thilina On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote: -- E-Mail : thilinamb(a)gmail.com I blog here : http://thilinamb.com

Hi Niels, Someone should start organising the GSOC 2009 page and start to fill project proposals. I'm pretty sure we'll all want to have widget integration as a GSOC 2009 project (open social, etc). It was done and basically working AFAIR but it needs to be integrated and I remember Thomas Mortagne saying that we should overhaul our current authentication API before integrating it as otherwise the integration would be too "hacky". -Vincent On Feb 4, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Niels Mayer wrote: > 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… > > > Niels > http://nielsmayer.com > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Thilina Buddhika > <thilinamb(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have a growing interest on XWiki and willing to take part in its >> development. I am also planning to apply for GSoC 2009 (yet to be >> announced) >> and I have realised that XWiki is a challenging and promising open >> source >> project for GSoC 2009. >> >> When watching the developer list, I found this mail by Niels Mayer >> with the >> subject,* "Social Networking via OpenID support in Xwiki?"*. And It >> looks >> like an intersting idea. I also found that there was a GSoC 2008 >> project >> related to this idea [1]. So is it possible to continue this project >> further >> ? >> >> Other than the above idea, I would like to know the other possible >> project >> ideas for GSoC 2009. If it is too early I am posting about this, >> then lets >> leave it for the next couple of weeks. Anyway I am trying to get >> familiarized with Xwiki until the GSoC 2009 is announced. >> >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> best regards, >> / thilina >> >> [1] - >> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/SSOAndOpenIDSupport

Right. The implementation is complete but I guess the tests are still missing (kind of difficult to write meaningful tests for it). The implementation supports both, RP and server. XWiki can accept OpenIDs from other sites as well as issue OpenIDs to be used on other sites supporting OpenID. That way you can use your XWiki account all over the web (well at least on sites that support OpenID).