Re: Call for Toics and Invited Talks for 2010!

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org> wrote:

> I'm thinking we should brainstorm one final round of invited talks and
> discussions to go through January and up till  end of February. Just
> to be clear, that leaves us with up to about 7 invited talks. Then, we
> need to really focus on the final report for March, which I think
> (given the use-cases, etc. etc. we should be able to piece together
> just fine!).
>
> I'm just brain-storming topics which we did not get to before
> Christmas break. I'd like people to add names and topics. Off the top
> of my head:
>
> 1) WRAP, OAuth, and SSL -> Probably inviting Eran Hammer-Lahav back,
> Luke Shepard from Facebook (who implemented WRAP in Javascript), and
> the editors of WRAP (Dick Hardt, Tom Allen) and some of them from
> OAuth (Ben Laurie comes to mind...)
>
> 2) Work on a common terminology. I know some of our Social Web XG
> membershave been working on this, so I'd like to devote a telecon to
> it ASAP.
>
> 3) XMPP, Google Wave, Opera Unite (which doesn't use XMPP, but maybe
> they can explain why), and other upcoming social software built on
> XMPP. I'm
> sure Peter St. Andre would be happy to weigh in, and I can e-mail
> folks from Opera and Google, but again, if people have personal
> contacts here now is the time to spread them.
>
> 4) OpenSocial, W3C Widgets, and Facebook Developer Platform - this
> might want to be split into two telecons. There's been quite a few
> e-mails about this, but we should probably just set a date and *do*
> it.
>
> 5) OpenID 2.0 - Realizing we never had a proper telecon about OpenID
> 2.0, in particular it's attribute exchange mechanism. Again, the usual
> cast of suspects - Chris Messina, David Recordon, Tom Allen... and the
> inevitable question, will there be an OpenID 3.0?
>
> 6) Micropayments - I think the OpenID foundation has a WG on this
> topic, and I know Doug Schepers (W3C) has been thinking about this.
> Not sure who else, but it should be part of the final report.
>
> 7) OpenMicroblogging and Twitter - We can invite someone from Twitter
> and really sit down and compare OMB to Twitter's APIs.
>
> 8) Relationship between OWF and W3C - we need to have a discussion of
> some proposal for some kind of mutually beneficial relationship.
>

I would suggest, Google Social Graph API (Brad Fitzpatrick)


>
>    OK, feel free to e-mail the whole list...I'd like to really like
> to decide this ASAP, time is running short!
>
>                 cheers,
>                    harry
>
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