It's been one of my goals to revisit the current OpenSocial groups structure to see if we can optimize things for the current level of traffic and support available. This post is to notify you of some changes coming soon if you visit the groups interface via the web (email posters should be unaffected):
Splitting groups --------------------------------------------------------------------- The first and biggest change will be that each of the subgroups in the current forum will be split off into their own individual groups (this is done mostly for backend reasons). The URLs for each individual group will continue to be: Application Development: http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-api Container: http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-container Specification: http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-and-gadgets-spec Community: http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-community Board: http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-board Our intent is to link heavily between the groups, and from opensocial.org, so that navigating to a specific group should continue to be easy. Deprecating the containers group --------------------------------------------------------------------- The "Implementing OpenSocial Containers" group is low traffic and consists mostly of questions that are better asked on specific mailing lists (Shindig, Partuza, etc). Our intention is to put the group into "archive-only" mode, and to link to the appropriate mailing lists from the group landing page. New posts will be automatically rejected. Possibly deprecating the community group --------------------------------------------------------------------- OpenSocial has its own community website in opensocial.org. In order to foster interaction on that site, I'm proposing that we close down the community mailing list in favor of the events and forum features on opensocial.org. Naturally, this may be more of a controversial change, so if you have any feedback, please let me know (by responding to this thread). The OpenSocial Application Development, OpenSocial and Gadgets Specification Discussion, and OpenSocial Board groups will continue to operate normally. By paring down the unnecessary groups, we're hoping that it will be easier to follow the discussion around OpenSocial in the future, and simplify the admin and support tasks of the group managers. Please respond to this message if you have any comments or questions. Cheers, ~Arne
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