Hi Ross That's something that has come up through JISC projects before and quite recently again too. Think there would definAtely be interest, just a question for finding a home.
Sheila On 7 Mar 2011, at 15:54, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 07/03/2011 15:49, Sheila MacNeill wrote: >> Very probably and some of the team will be at the widget bash too. > > Excellent. > > This brings up a question for this project though, do we want them? > > The issue is that maintaining widgets is a very different issue to > maintaining a widget server. Interestingly I just made the same > observation over on the Rave list where we are facing the same issue. > > The Shindig project (as far as I know) does not accept gadgets for this > reason. > > An alternative would be to create a separate project to host > widgets/gadgets, maybe outside the ASF in order to lower the barrier to > entry for newcomers and to remove the licence requirements we have here. > > Thoughts? > > Ross > >> >> Sheila >> >> On 7 Mar 2011, at 15:41, Ross Gardler wrote: >> >>> On 07/03/2011 15:31, Scott Wilson wrote: >>>> Nice writeup here: >>>> >>>> http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Accessibility_SIG_Meeting_28th_February_2011#WIDE_.28Widgets_for_Distributed_Inclusive_Environments.29_.28PowerPoint_Format_-_1.2Mb.29 >>>> >>>> Some of the widgets they developed are up here: >>>> >>>> http://arc.tees.ac.uk/wider/index.php?p=widgets >>>> >>>> Though it sounds like they made quite a few more but haven't published >>>> them yet. >>> >>> Any chance they will consider contributing the code for these to Wookie? >>> >>> Ross >> >> Sheila MacNeill >> Assistant Director >> JISC CETIS >> University of Strathclyde >> email:[email protected] >> tel: 01415484644 (office) >> 07855826413 (mobile) >> skype:sheilmcn >> >> The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, >> number SC015263. >> >> >> > > > -- > [email protected] > @rgardler Sheila MacNeill Assistant Director JISC CETIS University of Strathclyde email:[email protected] tel: 01415484644 (office) 07855826413 (mobile) skype:sheilmcn The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, number SC015263.
