I would most definitely contribute financially, etc. Joel Dietz
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:47 AM, dougx <[email protected]> wrote: > Creating a foundation ala wiki foundation, mozilla foundation, apache > foundation involves considerably more than simply creating a new > source archive on github; servers, website, incorporation, graphic > design, etc. Even if you crowd source much of the work, there are > costs involved at various levels in setting something like that up. > > Perhaps folding it in as an apache incubator project (as suggested) is > a better idea. > > Personally I think something along the lines of the google summer of > code would be neat; small (but not insignificant) funding to > students / research groups to participate and develop / add to the > project. Perhaps even directly pass any raised capital to the soc > group, with the caveat that those funds are ear marked for wave- > related projects for next years summer of code. > > ~ > D. > > On Aug 6, 12:31 pm, Brett Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm curious what you'd be seeing as the primary responsibilities of said > > fund? > > > > What problems would you want to tackle that Google hasn't on it's 10M+ a > > year budget? > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:28 PM, dougx <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Perhaps someone (in the US) could start a kickstarter fund for setting > > > up a wave foundation? > > > > > Probably best to wait until we get official word from the google guys > > > on what's happening, but I'd support a wave foundation to keep this > > > stuff going. > > > > > ~ > > > Doug. > > > > > On Aug 5, 11:20 pm, ThomasWrobel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Would it be a good idea to have some sort of forum or area for all > > > > people/groups currently working on their own WFP servers? > > > > Kinda help foster collaboration between them? or to help form a the > > > > begins of a foundation? > > > > Might be an idea to try to contact all the various groups (pygowave, > > > > ruby on sails, Process One..) and get some discussions going. > > > > > > On Aug 5, 3:23 pm, ThomasWrobel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > I agree with much said. > > > > > From my own viewpoint though, it would help if it was a lot easier > to > > > > > set up Wave servers and federate them. > > > > > Part of the USP is its distributed nature, yet there really isn't > much > > > > > federation going on at all at the moment. > > > > > > > Too many people (imho) saw Wave just as a website. A front end by > > > > > google for a "thing" and nothing more. > > > > > As soon as theres a few clients (online and standalone), servers > and > > > > > GUIs about all communicating on the standard I think the whole > > > > > concept and power of the WFP would come across much better. > > > > > > > On Aug 5, 5:24 am, James Purser <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > What I would love to see is something like the Apache foundation > > > setup > > > > > > for Wave. Google to open up as much code as they can and dump it > to > > > > > > the foundation along with responsibility for the various specs > and > > > > > > protocols. > > > > > > > > Has anyone heard from Novell or SAP about their own Wave > offerings? > > > > > > Getting them involved can only help keep the tech and ideas > behind > > > > > > wave going. > > > > > > > > James > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "Wave Protocol" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<wave-protocol%[email protected]> > <wave-protocol%2bunsubscr...@goog legroups.com> > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en. > > > > -- > > Brett Morganhttp://www.google.com/profiles/brett.morgan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Wave Protocol" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<wave-protocol%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Wave Protocol" 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/wave-protocol?hl=en.
