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Perhaps this isn’t the best forum for this question. If so, would one of the other child sites be more suitable?
I am wondering how to overcome the learning curve of convincing a non-technical bunch of users how and what open id is. how do you convince users that it is a good thing and that they want to use it?
Of course, you have to be willing to give up some percentage of your potential users by doing this. I’m not sure if it’s 5% or 50%, but some number of users wont be willing to go to the extra effort of setting up & using OpenID just to use your service.
I suggest just making it easy for them to use OpenID, with icons that link to Facebook / Google / Yahoo / other big-name providers, and then to the side, another box that allows them to create an account directly on your site without OpenID (so you don’t lose the users that don’t want OpenID for whatever reason).