{"id":169,"date":"2006-07-27T09:06:25","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T17:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/uncategorized\/openid-bounty-program-10-times-5000-dollars-for-open-source-developers"},"modified":"2006-07-27T09:06:25","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T17:06:25","slug":"openid-bounty-program-10-times-5000-dollars-for-open-source-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/openid-bounty-program-10-times-5000-dollars-for-open-source-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenID Bounty Program: 10 times 5000 Dollars for Open-Source Developers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One good way of telling whether anybody means it is to see whether they are willing to spend money on it. Well, we are. A group of companies, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verisign.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">VeriSign<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/janrain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">JanRain<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cordance.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cordance<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ootao.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ooTao<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Opinity<\/a> (<i>added, my apologies in missing you guys earlier<\/i>), <a href=\"http:\/\/fourkitchens.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Four Kitchen Studios<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/zooomr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zooomr<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/claimid.com\" target=\"_blank\">claimID<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sxip.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sxip<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sixapart.com\" target=\"_blank\">Six Apart<\/a>, and us at <a href=\"http:\/\/netmesh.us\" target=\"_blank\">NetMesh<\/a> have a created a pool of money that we&#8217;ll give away to people who join us in in the mission to make URL-based digital identity ubiquitous.<\/p>\n<p>To qualify for one of the 5000 dollar bounties, all you have to do is to OpenID-enable a well-established open-source application. The first 10 projects get 5000 dollars each. (The exact rules are at <a href=\"http:\/\/iwantmyopenid.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">IWantMyOpenID.org<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really looking forward to seeing what will happen. To the best of my knowledge, nobody has ever done this kind of thing for this kind of technology. But we&#8217;ve run the idea through committers on a number of potential open-source applications for this, and the feedback generally has been very favorable. So, I why don&#8217;t you get started today, the race is on! ;-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One good way of telling whether anybody means it is to see whether they are willing to spend money on it. Well, we are. A group of companies, including VeriSign, JanRain, Cordance, ooTao, Opinity (added, my apologies in missing you guys earlier), Four Kitchen Studios, Zooomr, claimID, Sxip, Six Apart, and us at NetMesh have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital_identity","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}