[OpenAjax] OpenAjax Alliance news

[Jon Ferraiolo]

This email contains some short announcements for OpenAjax Alliance.

Face-to-face meeting on October 23 in Silicon Valley
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(This information also appears on the OpenAjax blog:
http://www.openajax.org/blog/?p=64)

The members of the OpenAjax Alliance will hold a one-day face-to-face
meeting on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008, the day after AJAXWorld RIA Conference
and Expo 2008 West. The face-to-face will be hosted by Microsoft and
located at a TBD location in the San Francisco Bay Area (somewhere in
Silicon Valley). The various wiki pages for the face-to-face meeting is:

* Main page:
http://www.openajax.org/member/wiki/2008_October_Members_Meeting
* Agenda:
http://www.openajax.org/member/wiki/2008_October_Members_Meeting_Agenda
* Registration:
http://www.openajax.org/member/wiki/2008_October_Members_Meeting_Registration

The full agenda is not yet available, but one key agenda item will be to
review the results from the 2008 InteropFest (
http://www.openajax.org/blog/?p=63) and discuss what changes are needed to
OpenAjax Hub 1.1 and OpenAjax Metadata based on those results.

Steering Committee Election
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In this year's Steering Committee election, four of the seven slots in the
Steering Committee are up for election this year. The dates are as follows:

* Nomination period: Sept 17-30, 2008
* Voting period: Oct 1-8, 2008
* Announcement of results: within a couple of days after the end of voting

Any member can nominate themselves for the election by filling out a
nomination web form. Encumbent SC members (i.e., Dojo Foundation, Eclipse
Foundation, IBM and Zend) may run again. The nomination web form will be
active only during the nomination period, and the voting web form will be
active only during the voting period. Here are the relevant wiki pages:

* Steering Commitee main page:
http://www.openajax.org/member/wiki/Steering_Committee
* Election main page:
http://www.openajax.org/member/wiki/2008_Steering_Committee_Election
* Nominations page:
http://www.openajax.org/member/wiki/2008_Steering_Committee_Nominations
* Voting page:
http://www.openajax.org/member/wiki/2008_Steering_Committee_Voting_Page

There will be subsequent emails with reminders about nominations and
voting.

Recent OpenAjax slide deck focusing on IDEs, Mashups and 2008 InteropFest
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I gave a talk yesterday that provides an overview of current activities at
OpenAjax Alliance and goes into detail about our initiatives around IDE
workflows (OpenAjax Metadata for JavaScript APIs and Widgets) and mashup
workflows (OpenAjax Hub 1.1 and OpenAjax Metadata for Widgets). The slide
deck can be found at:

*
http://www.openajax.org/slidedecks/Interoperable%20Ajax%20Tools%20and%20Mashups.pdf

OpenAjax Alliance as media sponsor for Ajax Experience
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(This information also appears on the OpenAjax blog:
http://www.openajax.org/blog/?p=65)

OpenAjax Alliance is pleased to announce it will be a media sponsor of  The
Ajax Experience in Boston

* http://ajaxexperience.techtarget.com/east/index.html

Ajaxian.com is offering the OpenAjax community members a special rate for
attending The Ajax Experience, September 29 - October 1. Register with the
code ‘openajax’ to save $100 off the registration fee, making the price
only $1395 after (regular rate: $1495). If you are interested in coming
with a team, contact Tracey West at twest at techtarget.com. Groups of 3 or
more are being offered an extra $300 off per person. Register for TAE here:

* http://www.regonline.com/ajaxexperience.

Thanks.
Jon

Jon Ferraiolo <jferrai at us.ibm.com>
Web Architect, Emerging Technologies
IBM, San Jose, CA
Mobile: +1-408-956-2413
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