Anvil Research is a startup now crowd-funding Anvil Connect, an open source authorization server built to authenticate your users and protect your APIs, and one of the team leads is Cyn Skyberg, Linden Lab's former VP of Community, who also had a similar position with Cloud Party. Developers can use Anvil Connect for any number of use cases, including identity and shared data management within an MMO. Cyn tells me the project is definitely influenced by her work with community-oriented companies up to now:
"Working with the SL community, and others like Wikipedia, eBay and Cloud Party, has been fundamental to the shaping of how I think about and work with communities in general, whether they are internal or external to the organization I am working with," Cyn tells me. "I have come to believe, and put into practice, that when you are engaging with a community to build a product or service, that influence and input has to be at the foundation of what you are doing. In other words:
"[A] product built with community support and activity does in many ways belong to them, not to you. So if that's the path you are on, it makes sense to build philosophy, culture and tools to support that perspective. That's what we are trying to do at Anvil."
As a fellow ex-Linden, I love to see Lindens take that approach to the rest of the world. Go here read more about what Anvil's doing.
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