Nate Angellraised by wolves, accidental open-source evangelist

Chris Messina just posted a long, thoughtful and informative blog on the rise and fall of his erstwhile employer, local Portland identity provider Vidoop.

For those of us in the Portland tech community who welcomed Vidoop, saw our friends and colleagues go to work for them, and—in my case at least—starting using their OpenID provider service myVidoop—the whole series of events is mostly sad. I truly liked everyone I met from Vidoop and really appreciated their work and contributions to our community, like their hosting of the CyborgCamp 2009 pre-party.

I strongly agree with Chris that the fall of Vidoop can not be read as a failure of OpenID or other open web technologies, standards, or practices.

I'm honored to have been chosen to be a part of Portland's Legion of Tech advisory committee, not only to be able to be a part of LoT's great works, but also to be among such great company with the LoT board and advisors.

I look forward to helping with LoT's events, including Ignite Portland, Barcamp and whatever else it is that this great community brings to light.