Hello Remko,
I do not know the reasons, but it's a pity that countries like
Switzerland, France, Spain are excluded from the competition.
We would be happy to participate with remote labs experimentation
applications, but we can't :(
Best
Evgeny
On 12.05.11 05:26, Caprio, Remko (ELS-NYC) wrote:
Dear members,
I subscribed recently to these groups and want to offer a brief
introduction, hoping some of you will share my interest.
*Academic Common Extensions (ACE)*
In my contacts with academic developers I have come across many
different initiatives from researchers and developers at academic
institutions who implement an OpenSocial container for a range of
academic projects. Many of these share common ground among each other
or across the OpenSocial spec, and this aspect of shared functionality
in a certain industry is itself again common for different domains. My
objective with ACE is to explore what common solutions I can create
that facilitate these common functionalities as Common Extensions.
E.g. Typically academic initiatives will facilitate academic profiles,
publications, research funding activities, academic applications,
application citations (citation standard as an extension of
gadget/widget xml), etc.
*My background*
I have 10 years Java server side and web application development
experience (Yale University, hedge fund, in-game advertising and
Microsoft) and recently got involved with OpenSocial. SciVerse is an
extension of Shindig for Elsevier products (roughly 25% of the worlds
Science, Technology and Medical (STM) publications, the world's
largest citation and abstract database with a user base of 15 million
global researchers).
So with this perspective I hope to get involved in some of the
discussion and I would be very excited to hear from people with
interest in this angle.
*//*
*/Cheers,/*
*/Remko Caprio/*
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