[support] small grant for expertfinder project!

[Bill Fitzgerald]

Hello, Paolo,

If I was attempting to solve this, I'd look at Attribute Exchange within 
the OpenID 2.0 spec.

How about building this out on top of OpenID 2.0, using Attribute Exchange?

Drupal has support for OpenID in core for D6, and there has been talk on 
the dev list just yesterday of building out an OpenID server that works 
natively in Drupal.

For some related links, see:

http://openid.net/developers/specs/ -- for the OpenID 2.0 spec
http://openid.net/specs/openid-attribute-exchange-1_0-07.html -- for 
specific info on Attribute Exchange

Cheers,

Bill

paola.dimaio at gmail.com wrote:
> I have been awarded approx 5.000 usd research grant towards developing
> a 'person' interface (foaf like) for  an expertfinder type application
>
> http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/~aleman/efw2007/items/maio.php
>
> I am thinking of creating a foaf compatible, extensible and adaptable
> 'expert person'  like
> schema that can be plugged into 'any' open source cms, say drupal
>
> the prototype implementation that I have in mind to use  this exension/module is
> here www.p2paid.org
>
> I know that 5 grands is not that much, but here in south east Asia, is
> can be  significant amount of money
> I hope to use the money to  produce something FOSS that can be
> installed and run as needed by any compatible , as well as spend the
> money to train someone locally (Chiang Rai/Chiang Mai) area to write
> xml, foaf, people schema etcetera.
>
> I obviously need some help and advice to make sure I dont waste this
> opportunity to do something useful, so anyone interested in helping
> out with good advice, guidelines, expertise, ideas - or if you simply
> know an excellent programmer in Asia who would be interested to
> develop the schema and get paid basic research rates by the hour,
> please let me know! How is the expertfinder spec coming along? do we
> have something to work with?
> Is someone  from expertfinder team going to be at Busan
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Paola Di Maio
>
>
>
>   


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