Steering Committee
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Introduction
The Steering Committee manages the affairs of OpenAjax Alliance on behalf of its Member organizations in accordance with the Members Agreement that all Member organizations have signed.
Meetings
Next meeting
- Date/Time: Tuesday, Aug 4, 11amPT, 2pmET
- Dial-in Number(s):
- Toll Free: 1-866-423-8350
- Toll: 1-719-387-8273
- Participant Pin access code: 283044
- Agenda
- Status report on current activities
- Hub 2.0 (Interoperability WG)
- Major effort in 2009 to finish spec, open source and test suite
- Approved by SC on 22 July, 2009
- Press release
- Scheduled for Aug 18
- Draft content: http://www.openajax.org/member/wiki/DRAFT_OpenAjax_Hub_2.0_Approval_Press_Release
- New white papers
- Metadata 1.0 (IDE WG)
- Major effort in 2009 to finish spec and develop open source widget loader
- Major effort in 2009 to fix OA Widgets, particularly its APIS, to incorporate experience learned by existing commercial products and OpenSocial Gadgets
- Spec is complete, ready for final review
- Once reviews are complete, then finalize/approve
- Dreamweaver as industry driver for widget format
- Lots of Dreamweaver widgets in the OA Widget format on Adobe Exchange
- Mashup single sign-on (Security TF)
- http://www.openajax.org/member/wiki/Mashup_Authorization_Authentication_Requirements
- Tricky parts to this, especially because OpenID and SAML involve browser redirects, which looks like frame phishing to the Hub.
- We plan to produce sample code that shows how to use OpenID with OAHub2.0, but make sure approach will also work with SAML. (Unsure about whether we will try to provide sample code for OAuth)
- ARIA tooling ( Accessibility TF)
- Develop a standard set of accessibility validation rules, geared toward meeting compliance to WCAG 2 using WAI-ARIA and WAI-ARIA Best Practices. These rules must be consumable by major accessibility test tools.
- Develop best practices for reporting accessibility compliance by accessibility test tools
- Develop IDE best practices to assist developers to produce Accessible RIAs
- One of the key tools will be the Eclipse ACTF Web Validation Componentry (Webelo) as the open-source reference implementation
- Hub 2.0 (Interoperability WG)
- Possible additional future activities
- Hub enhancements
- So far, just planning open source enhancements, no spec changes
- Plan to add VBScript messaging for IE6/IE7 to remove clicking noise
- Metadata enhancements
- Postponed features are listed in appendix:
- JSDoc standardization
- JSON flavor of OpenAjax Metadata (alternative to XML)
- Coordination with JSON Schema standardization (Kris's project)
- OpenAjax Registry as self-service web app at OpenAjax.org
- Ajax toolkits define their usage of JavaScript globals, custom HTML markup, CSS classes
- Mashup registry: pubsub topics and payloads, shared properties
- IDE registry: widget categories
- Downplaying OpenAjax Conformance
- "Enterprise OpenSocial"?
- Update to browser wishlist?
- Mobile Ajax initiatives?
- Ajax state of the world white paper?
- Anything else that SC wants OAA to pursue?
- Hub enhancements
- Other topics to discuss
- Upcoming Steering Committee elections (~Oct 1. End of terms for MS, Nexaweb, TIBCO)
- All-member meeting and/or webinar
- Status report on current activities
The Members Who Serve on the Steering Committee
Terms lasting until Oct 1, 2010
- APTANA/Kevin Hakman
- DOJO/Kris Zyp
- ECLIPSE/Mike Milinkovich
- IBM/David Boloker (chair)
Terms lasting until Oct 1, 2011
- GOOGLE/Chris Schalk
- MICROSOFT/Bertrand Le Roy
- TIBCO/Howard Weingram
We have elected members (usually, member organizations), not individual participants
Note that the Steering Committee consists of 7 companies. The names listed above are the individuals who have been identified to represent each of the 7 companies, but companies can designate alternative individuals to serve on the Steering Committee either on a temporary basis or ongoing basis.
2009 election
We held an election for three Steering Committee slots (the ones previously held by held by Microsoft, Nexaweb and TIBCO) in the period between Sept. 17 - Oct 1, 2009. The 2009 election is documented on the following wiki pages:
- 2009 Steering Committee Election
- 2009 Steering Committee Nominations
- 2009 Steering Committee Voting Page
- 2009 Steering Committee Results
2008 election
We held an election for four Steering Committee slots (the ones previously held by Dojo Foundation, IBM, Eclipse Foundation and Zend) in the period between Sept. 17 - Oct 1, 2008. The 2008 election is documented on the following wiki pages:
- 2008 Steering Committee Election
- 2008 Steering Committee Nominations
- 2008 Steering Committee Voting Page
- 2008 Steering Committee Results
2007 special election to replace Zimbra
Zimbra withdrew from the Steering Committee at the end of September 2007. As a result, there has been a special election at the end of 2007 to choose a replacement:
- 2007 Steering Committee Special Election
- 2007 Steering Committee Special Election Nominations
- 2007 Steering Committee Special Election Results
2007 election
Three slots on the Steering Committee were elected by the Member organizations during an election that happened from Oct 1 - Oct 5. The 2007 election is documented on the following three wiki pages:
- 2007 Steering Committee Election
- 2007 Steering Committee Nominations
- 2007 Steering Committee Results
2006 election
The Steering Committee was elected by the Member organizations during an election that happened from Sept. 30 to Oct 3 2006. The 2006 election is documented on the following three wiki pages:
- 2006 Steering Committee Election
- 2006 Steering Committee Nominations
- 2006 Steering Committee Results
Steering Committee email archives and meeting minutes
The email list for the Steering Committtee is steeringcommittee@openajax.org. Only members of the Steering Committee can post without moderation; posts from other people are welcome, but note that they are moderated. Archives can be found at: http://openajax.org/pipermail/steeringcommittee/.
(Note: Prior to Nov. 10, 2006, Steering Committee emails were archived at Yahoo groups at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/openajax_steering_committee/).
Here is where you can find minutes from previous Steering Committee meetings, along with links to key some resolutions that occurred via email.
