WebID is a standard being developped at the W3C, which could be used in relation to some Debian Web services.

Potential uses

Identification of Debian contributors

Each Debian contributor may have a WebID compatible profile published by some Debian service.

For instance, Debian project members are listed by db.debian.org, so the same information could be provided in a standard way on such a service.

Some experiment are being conducted in this area :

See also the contributors.debian.org project, which intends to provide a profile for Debian contributors.

Discussion

Interested by the use of WebID for the Debian project ? Contact us on : debwebid-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org (archives : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debwebid-discuss/).

See also recordings of the WebID BoF at Debconf 13


See also : ContributorsInformationSources