On Friday, July 17, 2009, Scott Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Wookie - which I demonstrated at the Paris F2F - has just been accepted into > the Apache Incubator. >
congratulations! > Wookie implements the W3C Widgets draft specifications as a web service > supporting web applications, in a manner similar to (and compatible with) > Apache Shindig for OpenSocial gadgets. > it's great to see W3C widgets being compatible with that technology. Thanks for all your help making that happen. > We've been tracking and contributing to the Widgets family of specifications, > and we look forward to working with the rest of the community in helping make > sure Wookie conforms to the specs, with the potential to act as a reference > implementation (at least for server-based UAs). > Excellent! I will be sure to mention wookie during the W3C transition request to CR (this Tuesday). It will strengthen the case for the document transitioning to CR. > Once we've sorted out the infrastructure at ASF and moved the existing code > our focus will be to ensure that we have a broad community of developers > actively contributing to the project. > > There's a blog post by Ross Gardler at ASF giving some more details here: > http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/2009/07/17/wookie-accepted-into-apache-incubator/ > will take a look! Thanks for the update. > Cheers, > > S > > > /-/-/-/-/-/ > Scott Wilson > Assistant Director, JISC CETIS > University of Bolton > > Projects: > FeedForward: http://getfeedforward.org > Wookie: http://getwookie.org > > [email protected] > http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/scott > > -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.au
