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.
I think in both cases (Wookie and Rave) we want to have a few example widgets/gadgets to help people get started, but beyond that I think there is a requirement for both a widget developer shed and also a white-label app store. The app store is something that Niels and I discussed at the OpenSocial workshop in Utrecht - and Sheila has campaigned for in the UK - though mostly in an education context. But the widget dev shed is a real gray area right now and it isn't clear where this might live as its a kind of "meta project" or "micro incubator". > 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
