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Background

At 2007 September Members Meeting, we decided to investigate possible metadata standards for mashup components, sometimes called "widgets" or "gadgets". We recognized potential overlap with the metadata work coming out of the IDE WG (/member/wiki/IDE) because they are developing metadata standards for UI controls (another possible definition for "widget"). The Gadgets TF is focused on one form of "widgets" that get plugged into a mashup container application at run-time, whereas the IDE WG is focused on potentially a different form of "widgets" that are consumed at design-time by a developer tool.

Working Documents

• IBM Widgets proposal
• Widget System Comparison Table: /member/wiki/Widget_System_Comparison_Table
• Gadget Open Issues

Relationship to other forums

• Need to coordinate with IDE WG (see introductory remarks, above)
• Need to coordinate with WAF WG, which is working on a Widgets 1.0 specification (where the term term "widget" refers to mini-applications that are installed onto the platform and run outside of the browser)

Chair and membership

Stewart Nickolas from IBM will chair this task force. The following list is the current members in this task force:

• Stewart Nickolas <nickolas(at)us.ibm.com> - chair
• Jon Ferraiolo <jferrai(at)us.ibm.com>
• Howard Weingram <weingram(at)tibco.com>
• Bertrand Le Roy <bleroy(at)microsoft.com>
• David Boloker <boloker(at)us.ibm.com>

Task Force's Email list

The email list is gadgets@openajax.org. Archives can be found at: http://openajax.org/pipermail/gadgets/. To subscribe to this list, fill out the form at: http://openajax.org/mailman/listinfo/gadgets.

Task Force Schedule

The schedule, and plan on how to move forward will be discussed in a future conference call among the task force members. Given the nature of this task force, we only expect occasional conference calls. Most of the work will be done via email.

Conference Calls

• Standard time slot: Wednesday 3:00pm PT, 5:00pm CT and 6:00pm ET
• IRC channel: irc.freenode.net, #oaa-interop

Next meeting

Agenda for next meeting (3/05/08):

Review the Feature Proposal

Previous Agendas

• Gadget API
• Review the Gadget/Hub Integration Scenarios Gadget/Hub Usage Scenarios

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Conference Call Minutes (in reverse chrono order)

• Gadgets_Minutes_2008-2-27
• Gadgets_Minutes_2008-1-30
• Gadgets_Minutes_2008-01-23 (annotated with various clarifications and in-depth explanations from Howard about some key issues)
• Gadgets_Minutes_2007-12-12
• (minutes not yet posted from phone call on 2007-12-05)
• Gadgets_Minutes_2007-11-16