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 <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Thilina,

Thanks for your mail and you nice initiative. It's indeed a little early since we haven't finalized the list of projects we'd like to have for GSOC 2009. In any case thanks for the idea of continuing the openId project of 2008. I'm not sure if we want to have it again for 2009 but we'll consider it.

If you want to familiarize yourself with how we work for the GSOC you can check this page from last year: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/WebHome

Thanks again -Vincent

On Feb 3, 2009, at 5:56 AM, Thilina Buddhika wrote:

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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

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http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/SSOAndOpenIDSupport

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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).

You mentioned GSOC 2008 and http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/SSOAndOpenIDSupport ... what is the status of any code completed to date?

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/intr...

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/j... follow instructions in http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Authentication#HCustomAu...

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 <[email protected]>wrote:

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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

The OpenId authenticator and provider already works pretty well based in the current not very clean authentication api with some hack because Markus did not had choice to do this otherwise. I just did not had time to integrate it yet in the trunk but Raffaello Pelagalli started do to some test with it to integrate between http://l10n.xwiki.org and xwiki.org farms (l10n is on its own instance of XWiki).

See http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-2630 , http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-2588 and http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XSALBATROSS-34

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).