Josef: Brett is referencing this, which you can run/study without having to wait for Google to do anything:
http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/ Cheers, Andrey On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Joe Developer <[email protected]>wrote: > Awww. > > On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Josef Maier <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> Hi Brett, >> >> I filled in the form at wave.google.com - multiple times with different >> accounts. At a date when the WAVE team blogs said that the registration >> counter was at 20000. So I really was counting on getting at least one >> account last week... >> > > Probably the WAVE team is more comfortable in making the press feel good >> than the average developer here in Europe. On the other hand -as I still >> didn't get any message about an account yet- I am starting to really >> understand the snobbish attitude of this entire WAVE hype. (Let me guess: >> your e-mail address made you to get an account IMMEDIATELY, right??? Don't >> take this question personal please - just as an objective method to realize >> "what's really going on here".) >> > > Perhaps the account creation spamming from a single IP or range triggered > something, perhaps your rationale for wanting an account wasn't compelling, > perhaps they were able to somehow pick up on the fact that you seem to be a > histrionic prima donna. > > >> Or better - let me ask the question in a different way: Is there any >> way to set up a Wave server independently, just to get around this >> hype-creating, limiting, psycho-bubble thing so-called "developer-preview" >> right now? Just that any developer really interested in could create his own >> accounts & see what he can really *develop* with it? >> > > Yes, if you exert your software development foo and do a quick search > through these groups you will find quite a few references to 'federation > reference server', 'federation protocol' and 'Opensource wave projects' . > > >> * Thanks for reading, >> Josef ;-) >> >> p.s.: I'm in software development since 20 years, and assure you: I >> *never* got such bad experience with a new product launch... I expected >> probably too much, but never thought that "Google would let me down on such >> a simple thing like this" - just to call it by name. >> * >> >> >> 2009/10/2 Brett Morgan <[email protected]> >> >> >>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Josef Maier <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > Hi all, >>> > >>> > I also hoped to get an invitation by yesterday's rollout. I've >>> > registered more than a month ago - also with two other coporate e-mail >>> > accounts - and waited. No answer. Nothing. >>> >>> Out of interest, did you sign up with the wavesandbox.com or the >>> wave.google.com signup form? >>> >>> > Could it be that you guys intentionally lock out people from outside >>> > the U.S.? I'm very eager to check WAVE with a new project I'm doing, >>> > but your policy of running a hype on the one side and locking out >>> > early adaptors at the same time gets very, very annoying. >>> >>> I doubt there is a policy of locking out early adopters, in fact the >>> Sydney, Australia based Wave development team have been very >>> accommodating to us developers, at least as far as I can tell. >>> >>> > p.s.: please realize that there are people that are relatively new to >>> > the Google dev world, but believe(d) in it and set up a complete >>> > development environment dedicated to WAVE and according to the >>> > guidlines provided provided already... why do you lock us out? >>> >>> If the roll out of the Wave follows the pattern set by the other >>> Google services, there will be an ongoing ramp up of users as the >>> development and administration teams come to terms with the load and >>> usage patterns that emerge from having 100k people chatting with each >>> other in real time. >>> >>> brett >>> >>> -- >>> Brett Morgan http://domesticmouse.livejournal.com/ >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Wave API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
