Re: Fw: OpenSocial Foundation Moving Standards Work to W3C Social Web Activity (Press Release)

For convenience... The FAQ is here:
http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/12/opensocial-foundation-moves-standards-work-to-w3c-social-web-activity/#faq

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Arnaud Le Hors <lehors@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> FYI.
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> Arnaud  Le Hors - Senior Technical Staff Member, Open Web Standards - IBM
> Software Group
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> ----- Forwarded by Arnaud Le Hors/Cupertino/IBM on 12/16/2014 01:06 PM -----
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> From:        Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
> To:        "w3c-ac-forum@w3.org" <w3c-ac-forum@w3.org>
> Date:        12/16/2014 01:00 PM
> Subject:        OpenSocial Foundation Moving Standards Work to W3C Social
> Web Activity (Press Release)
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> Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
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> W3C issued a press release a moment ago:
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>   OpenSocial Foundation Moving Standards Work to W3C Social Web Activity
>   http://www.w3.org/2014/12/opensocial.html.en
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> There are links in the online version, and the text is below.
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> For any translations of the press release, see:
> http://www.w3.org/Press/Releases-2014#opensocial
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> Media contact:
> Ian Jacobs, <w3t-pr@w3.org>, +1.718 260 9447
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> Ian Jacobs, Head of W3C Communications
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> 16 December 2014 — Building on the 31 July 2014 announcement of
> the W3C Social Web Working Group, the OpenSocial Foundation and
> W3C today announce the transfer of OpenSocial specifications and
> assets to the W3C. As of 1 January 2015, OpenSocial Foundation
> will close and future work will take place within the W3C Social
> Web Activity, chartered to make it easier to build and integrate
> social applications into the Open Web Platform.
>
> Said OpenSocial Foundation President John Mertic, “The consensus
> of the OpenSocial Board is that the next phase of Social Web
> Standards, built in large part on the success of OpenSocial
> standards and projects like Apache Shindig and Rave, should occur
> under the auspices of the W3C Social Web Working Group, of which
> OpenSocial is a founding member.” Mertic continued, “The
> OpenSocial community has taken the idea of industry standards to
> govern the Social Web from dream to reality. By shifting our work
> now to the W3C Social Web Working Group, we will make the Open
> Social Web inevitable and ubiquitous.”
>
> OpenSocial brought a number of specifications to the W3C Social
> Web Working Group that launched in July 2014, including Activity
> Streams 2.0 and OpenSocial 2.5.1 Activity Streams and Embedded
> Experiences APIs. Those specifications are mature and widely
> deployed across the industry.
>
> "With the social business marketplace evolving, we are looking to
> build on the success of OpenSocial Foundation initiatives to
> offer deeper integration of social business in the full Open Web
> Platform," said Jason Roy Gary, Distinguished Engineer, CTO IBM
> Enterprise Social Solutions & Senior OpenSocial Foundation Board
> Member. "W3C's technology agenda, global community, and patent
> policy make it the right venue for developing the next generation
> of social business standards. As they become platform
> foundations, these standards will fuel a wide variety of future
> social applications."
>
> “Social standards are part of the application foundations for the
> Open Web Platform,” said Jeff Jaffe, W3C CEO, “meaning they will
> be used everywhere, in diverse applications that run on phones,
> cars, televisions, and ereaders. We are thrilled to be working
> with our OpenSocial Foundation colleagues on the next generation
> of social standards, and to further leverage the benefits of
> HTML5 and other Open Web Platform technologies.”
>
> The OpenSocial Foundation and W3C invite people to participate in these
> groups:
>
>  * The Social Web Working Group, which is defining technical
>  standards and APIs to facilitate access to social
>  functionality. These include a common JSON-based syntax for
>  social data, a client-side API, and a Web protocol for
>  federating social information such as status updates.
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>  * The Social Interest Group, which is coordinating development of
>  social use cases, and formulating a broad strategy to enable
>  social business and federation.
>
> A FAQ answers some common questions about this transition.
>
> About the World Wide Web Consortium
>
> The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international
> consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the
> public work together to develop Web standards. W3C primarily
> pursues its mission through the creation of Web standards and
> guidelines designed to ensure long-term growth for the Web. The
> Open Web Platform is a current major focus. Over 400
> organizations are Members of the Consortium. W3C is jointly run
> by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
> Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) in the USA, the European Research
> Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered
> in France, Keio University in Japan, and Beihang University in
> China, and has additional Offices worldwide. For more information
> see http://www.w3.org/
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> Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>      http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs
> Tel:                       +1 718 260 9447
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Received on Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:17:21 UTC