Curiouser and Curiouser! on social-software-alliance http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic social-software-alliance Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb Social Software Alliance is announced Thu, 17 Apr 2003 14:36:58 +0100 <P align=center><A href="http://www.socialtext.net/ssa/"><IMG src="http://www.socialtext.net/ssa/ssaMedium.gif" border=0></A></P> <P align=center>We are proud to announce the launch of the Social Software Alliance</P> <P>The brainchild of the pioneers at <A href="http://www.socialtext.com/">SocialText</A> the alliance is intended to be a place where the developers & users of social software can come together&nbsp;to create open standards, and, contribute industry best practices.&nbsp; Our initial aims are:</P> <UL> <LI>aid discovery of developers working on synergistic projects and standards <LI>assist in shaping open standards that mesh well with other alliance and Internet standards <LI>help promote each standard to gain wider adoption</LI></UL> <P>Quoting from the call for discussion:</P> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <P>"The fast-paced nature of the social software space now argues for developing light-weight, easy-to-implement standards, following the Internet tradition of rough consensus and running code, but perhaps moving faster than the larger standards bodies. It is expected that those standards promulgated by the alliance which become widely adopted will be proposed to the appropriate general standards body or bodies: W3C, IETF, ISO, etc. "</P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>There will be a SocialText sponsored <EM>Happening</EM> tomorrow (see the site for more details) and we hope that anyone who is interested in the development of social software will come and get involved.</P> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00001406.html