Sun has offered to host an OpenIDDevCamp at their annual day-long CommunityOne developer conference the day before the start of JavaOne. Not only will you get a chance to talk with OpenID developers you’ll also get to interact with members of other open source communities (such as Drupal and Ruby on Rails). Vidoop’s Michael Richardson is going to be helping lead the efforts with the help of other community members.

Monday May 5, 2008 – 11am – 8pm
Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA

We’ll be in Hall A and we’ll have tables, white boards and wifi. We’ll get things started at 11am and will run until 8pm. The CommunityOne reception will be in that hall from 6 – 8pm (read: free as in beer).

Please register for the event. In the “referral code” field, put in “OpenID”. That will get you in the door. General session is from 9:30am – 10:45am (see the website for more details).

Once signed up, you’ll receive the SWAG bag, lunch and be able to participate in the reception. Not only do you get access to CommunityOne but you get a free pass for Day 1 at JavaOne. CommuntiyOne is a free event.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Much was done … here is just a sampling:

• Brad Fitzpatrick, Ryan Barrett, and Sam Alexander wrote a new semi-automated test suite for OpenID relying parties and providers. More information can be found at the Google Code OpenID-test project page.
• Discussions of OpenID + OAuth and how they can seamlessly complement each other.  David Recordon and Joseph Smarr started to document this OpenID Extension which builds atop OpenID Attribute Exchange.
• A good group discussion about the possibilities around what we can land at OpenID end-points. (see Scott’s post on this). Consensus is that we’ve got the pieces and now its time to crank out some code.
• Joseph Smarr upgraded Plaxo to be an OpenID 2.0 relying party and debugged their support of i-names. (woohoo!)
• Christopher Allen helped to clean up the OpenID wiki and refreshed the page on setting up delegation.
• Evan Prodromou updated his OpenID plugin for MediaWiki to support 2.0 as a remote participant!
• Eugene Eric Kim and Matthew have a Perl XRI implementation (almost) done.
• Chris Messina talked about the DiSo project with its possibilities around XMPP and discovery.
• Randy Reddig continued his work from a few days ago on updating the OpenID logo especially to work better in small sizes as another remote participant.
• Chris Messina led a discussion on OpenID usability where we worked on developing relying party best practices around login interfaces and error messages.

Additionally, getting an entire group of OpenID veterans was a great way for people to debug their problems and learn new things:

• A few people got their Ruby on Rails blogs OpenID enabled for commenting.
• Getting the Java version of consumer library installed and figuring out what it takes to be a provider (hint: acting as a great provider is hard).
• Zentu now lets you login using OpenID!

Some takeaways and things the group would like to try to accomplish for next time:

• Translate vCard attributes to Attribute Exchange schema end-points.

Planning and organizing OpenIDDevCamp really wasn’t that hard so if you’ve ever thought about putting together an event like this, you really should!  Feel free to use this event’s wiki page as a template.