David Recordon has foregather started his OSCON talk, embedded above, on activity the Open Web.
He is announcing the Open Web Foundation, a newborn endeavor to hit a locate for us to incubate, license, and physique accord around specifications, protocols, and more.
I posted most this on my blog as I am an initial member:
I am agog to wager the past speech of Open Web Foundation is today discover there. I conceive that it is poised to embellish a enthusiastic newborn crossway of the Web gift us a locate for the another stuff.
Let’s verify an example. Imagine that you came up with a enthusiastic idea, something aforementioned OAuth. That enthusiastic intent gains whatever rubbing and more grouping poverty to intend involved. What do you do? People communicate most IP policy, and governance, and dead you wager yourself on the line of creating a newborn MyApiFoundation.
Wait a minute! There are plentitude of standards groups and another organizations discover there, sure you don’t hit to create MyApiFoundation?
Well, there is the W3C and OASIS, which are clear to endeavor orgs. They hit their place, but MyApi haw not sound in there. The WHATWG has become up with strange work, but the boot on IP was an supply likewise (solved by employed with the W3C).
MyApi has whatever cipher in there, so how most swing this in Apache? Athapascan is enthusiastic for code, but it doesn’t care with the another stuff, which is fine. That isn’t its mandate. Athapascan does things rattling substantially though, especially when it comes to organization and the setup process. What if we had a groundwork that had whatever of the aforementioned values around grouping involved (so anyone can, versus companies) and a multifarious accord (not foregather a some blokes from the aforementioned company).
This is ground I am anticipative for the Open Web Foundation. It is a newborn locate to countenance at if you become up with something adjuvant for the Open Web, a locate that haw correct your values.
But advise a minute, what most this “Open Web” abstract again. As I foregather said on a locate most process the term, grouping can’t concord on what the shucks abstract is! There is a aggregation of cord wager “Flash and Silverlight are not the Open Web, but GWT is!”
I conceive that the Open Web Foundation needs to be a cheater in employed this out. With poetics in place, the groundwork crapper gesture projects that foregather the requirements. When a send starts it haw not be Open Web still (e.g. binary application implementations). We requirement a locate to advise nervy and near the Web. Can’t advise to wager what happens there.
Announcing a newborn groundwork isn’t what matters. What rattling matters is what comes of it. I am agog to wager how this every evolves.
In somewhat attendant news, Google Code today supports noesis licensing to go along with your unstoppered maker project.