FYI. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Paul Lindner <lind...@inuus.com> Date: Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:12 AM Subject: Call For Participation - Opensocial V2 Specification To: opensocial-and-gadgets-s...@googlegroups.com
[Please forward to any potential venues you deem appropriate] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - OPENSOCIAL V2 The OpenSocial Open Standards and Open Source Alignment Advisory Committee would like your help designing the next version of OpenSocial. OpenSocial V2 is a major upgrade from the v1.x series and is tentatively scheduled to be available in mid-2011. * The Goal Our goal is to refresh the Opensocial technology stack so that it becomes an even better way to implement interoperable social experiences on the internet. A lot has changed in the three years since Opensocial was first proposed. The community has made a number of incremental improvements and added some big new features. We've also learned quite a bit about what works and what doesn't. We also realize that other communities have done great work and we would like to align OpenSocial with those other efforts. Areas of exploration include but are not limited to: - Aligning with Activity Streams, OStatus, SWAT0, and OEmbed - Deprecating or wholesale removal of little used features. - Removing ambiguity and tightening up the spec. Overall we're looking to define and get consensus for the framework and themes that will make the V2 specification successful. * Deliverables This group will deliver a document titled "The OpenSocial v2 Framework" for review by the Opensocial Board at their January 27th, 2010 meeting. It will: - Describes at a high level the changes we want to see in Opensocial. - Decides what's in-scope, out-of-scope and undecided. - Identifies Champions for each of these changes and volunteers that are willing to design and implement them. * The Process Recommendations will be developed in the open via the mailing list opensocial-and-gadgets-s...@googlegroups.com To coordinate and catalog the proposals we will use the wiki doc listed below. http://wiki.opensocial.org/index.php?title=Spec_Changes Each proposal should contain the following information: Scope of change (Large, Medium, Small) Reference to existing standard (if applicable) Champion Name Specification editor names and declarations of time commitment. We will follow the general rule of OpenSocial spec development, five +1 votes and no vetoes from Opensocial Foundation Members. Membership is open to anyone by visiting http://www.opensocial.org/opensocial-foundation/osf-membership-app.html * Key Dates December 16th - Opensocial v2 kickoff at Google in Mountain View, California USA. Please RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1103748341/estwbreg Full notes will be taken. Weekly IRC chats starting December 20th #opensocial on freenode.net Schedule to be determined at the Kickoff meeting, the plan is to stagger times to accomodate Europe, Asia, North America January 20th, 2011 - cutoff for all proposals. January 27th, 2011 - present document for OpenSocial Board. Thank You! Paul Lindner Former Opensocial Community Board member VP Apache Shindig Project -- Paul Lindner -- lind...@inuus.com -- linkedin.com/in/plindner -- Chris Messina Open Web Advocate, Google Personal: http://factoryjoe.com Follow me on Buzz: http://buzz.google.com/chrismessina ...or Twitter: http://twitter.com/chrismessina This email is: [ ] shareable [X] ask first [ ] private -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OAuth" group. To post to this group, send email to oa...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to oauth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/oauth?hl=en.
