[report] Rapid Innovation in Development event, Manchester, UK Sept 2009

[Ross Gardler <rg...@apache.org>]

Scott Wilson and I were at a JISC funded Rapid Innovation event in the
UK last week, here are my notes from that event:

Wookie (Scott Wilson)

Scott ran a BoF on Wookie (with me chiming in occasionally). This went
down pretty well with quite a few people seemingly interested in the
technology. A number of people identified themselves as interesetd via
Twitter:

* http://twitter.com/ocasquero
* http://twitter.com/AndyCobley
* http://twitter.com/davechallis
* http://twitter.com/martin_hamilton
* http://twitter.com/mrnick

ACTION [volunteers please]: try and bring these people into official
Wookie channels to explore their interest further

Scott and I discussed doing a Meetup in Holland. The reasoning is that
the Open University of the Netherlands was a key partner in the
original Ten COmpetence project that spawned Wookie and there is
considerable interest on the ground there from people engaged with the
W3C widget standards work. Sponsorship has been agreed, in principle,
similarly on the ground support in Holland has been agreed, in
principle - more to come once things are a little more concrete and
the parties have agreed to be named - about 2 weeks.

ACTION: RG + SW: progress planning for this event

I discussed with Graham Klyne of the Shuffl project
(http://shuffl.googlecode.com) about having Shuffl become a Wookie
widget. He was interested in finding out more, but concerned about the
overhead - it can't get in the way of his current work. I pointed out
that by making Shuffl a widget he could then take advantage of other
widgets, such as chat widgets, which are on his medium term roadmap.

ACTION [SW?]: explore what needs to be done to "wookiefy" Shuffle (an
early demo of shuffle can be run from the SVN server via
http://shuffl.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/shuffl-sample-2.xhtml) - I
am willing to provide the link between Wookie and Shuffl, but I don't
have the technical expertise in Wookie to drive this forward yet.

Ross

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