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

Everyone in Social Web WG and Social IG, we at W3C just want you to all
to know this is big +1 vote of confidence in your both current work and
expected future impact.  If you have any questions, just ask us, and
I've added an agenda item to discuss on Social Interest WG's call today.

That being said, from the WG/IG's perspective, everything should be the
same it should have no change to the charter or projected work, other
than more participation from OpenSocial members!

  yours,
       harry

On 12/16/2014 10:16 PM, James M Snell wrote:
> 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.
>> --
>> Arnaud  Le Hors - Senior Technical Staff Member, Open Web Standards - IBM
>> Software Group
>>
>> ----- Forwarded by Arnaud Le Hors/Cupertino/IBM on 12/16/2014 01:06 PM -----
>>
>> 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)
>> ________________________________
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
>>
>> W3C issued a press release a moment ago:
>>
>>   OpenSocial Foundation Moving Standards Work to W3C Social Web Activity
>>   http://www.w3.org/2014/12/opensocial.html.en
>>
>> There are links in the online version, and the text is below.
>>
>> For any translations of the press release, see:
>> http://www.w3.org/Press/Releases-2014#opensocial
>>
>> Media contact:
>> Ian Jacobs, <w3t-pr@w3.org>, +1.718 260 9447
>>
>> Ian Jacobs, Head of W3C Communications
>>
>> =====================
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>  * 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/
>> --
>> Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>      http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs
>> Tel:                       +1 718 260 9447
>>
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