- From: Appelquist, Daniel, VF-Group <Daniel.Appelquist@vodafone.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:11:35 +0200
- To: "W3C Federated Social Web Incubator" <public-xg-federatedsocialweb@w3.org>
- Cc: <federated-social-web@googlegroups.com>, <onesocialweb@googlegroups.com>
- Message-ID: <CA27A897.C308%daniel.appelquist@vodafone.com>
Hello Federated Social Web peeps - I'm writing to let you all know what is happening with the OneSocialWeb project. As many of you know, this project was originally conceived by Laurent Eschenauer and Alard Weisscher in late 2009. Along with Diana Cheng (and with some encouragement and cheerleading from myself and others in Vodafone R&D) they built the project up as a prototype of what you could do with XMPP in the federated social networking space. Unfortunately, due to some circumstances out of all of our control, Laurent and Alard had to leave Vodafone. At that point, we took the decision to continue the project with myself and Diana. During the past year we have kept the project going, including adding some new features (e.g. commenting) and we've also seen the open source community around OneSocialWeb grow, with a few community-developed clients (notably, the iPhone client). We've also learned a lot about the federated social networking space both through the project and through participation in the burgeoning community. However, we have limited resources, and we have now taken the decision to concentrate what time we can spend on the federated social Web in the area of protocols and standards. This means we will not be actively updating the code base for OneSocialWeb (server or client), nor will we be adding features. We will Continue to work on the protocol, and will support any implementers (such as ProcessOne) and collaborate with them to improve it and expand it. Our intention is to contribute the work we have done on XMPP extensions (e.g. Activity Streams over XMPP) into the relevant XMPP technical committees. Having said all that, all the code that has been produced is up there on GitHub. I know that several projects have used the code to develop their own prototypes. It's our view that the OneSocialWeb open source community has not grown to the point where it can become self-sustaining, but if anyone would like to step forward to take ownership of the code-base we would be more than happy to discuss this. As we stated in the summit in Berlin, we are committed to making the FSW a reality, and we (Diana and I) will continue actively participating in the FSW incubator group and list and will con tribute to all the XMPP social specs, and not only OSW. We will also like to be there to facilitate in any way we can the work and activities of the FSW community. Thanks, Dan Appelquist Vodafone Group R&D
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