myrmepropagandist
The CS club is excited to set up new services on the student intranet at our small grade school. Currently the school uses google for authentication. We can talk about how that isn't ideal, how google is bad etc. but the student club can't change this and neither can I.
So, any service they create will need to use that same authentication service. (we do not want to run annon services, or have students register again)
Anyone have experience doing this on a small scale?
myrmepropagandist
*evil grin expands*
Could one use google's authentication API to make a service people could sign up for that would be independent of google authentication?
A kind of escape hatch?
Your ordinary computer user will balk at "signing up" and filling out forms. It's one of the greatest barriers to getting people "on here" among other places.
I recently went through the sign up process on the fedi with an adult friend and frankly it's unacceptable.
myrmepropagandist
There is a labor of love for any dev who'd make a FOSS universal authentication service that institutions like schools would WANT to use.
Until that happens the reality is google dominates and everyone uses it, by not playing along nice with it? It's just isolationism.
myrmepropagandist
I used to be a bit of a hack PHP web dev in my awkward private sector days. I can show them how to make all kinds of things using PHP. I think making a "whiteboard" basically a single wikipedia page with anyone can edit with history that uses google authentication would be a good first project for me.
I don't really want them to waste much time learning the details of any authentication. service or language. These are fleeting things.
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