Open App Revolution storms IBM Innovate 2011

As a follow on to the efforts shown at the OpenSocial SOTU, we brought the Open App Revolution to IBM Innovate (The Rational Software Conference). Innovate is IBM Rational's annual conference for software and product delivery. It was held this year in Orlando, FL from June 5th through 9th. Matt Marum (IBM) was at Innovate this year demonstrating a cool social integration using Rational application lifecycle management tools within the Jazz Interoperability Center of the exhibit hall.

Matt demonstrated how a single embedded experience OpenSocial gadget could be created that would work with multiple Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools through the use of the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC). OSLC is an open community for developing standards to make integrating lifecycle tools easier . In the demonstration, he showed how ActivityStream activities could be generated from ALM tools using social rules to sort out business relevant activity. 

These activities are then posted to an activity stream which was displayed within an enterprise morning report OpenSocial application running on an iPad and iPhone. The mobile device user could then interact with the underlying ALM resources using an embedded experience without switching contexts away from their social application. Leveraging open standards, he demonstrated the end to end scenario working on Rational Team Concert and Rational ClearQuest. He was also showed the embedded experience working with Rational Quality Manager and Rational Requirements Composer.
Even better, by using OpenSocial gadgets it all ran within a Jazz Dashboard and potentially any other OpenSocial container. Here is a preview video put together just before Innovate. Products shown are Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Requirements Composer, and Rational ClearQuest.

The demonstration was a big success! Attendees were excited by the opportunities of the social integration to change how they and their users work every day. This work is still at the "proof of concept" stage. However, you can track the progress of the work and get involved by following the OpenSocial spec list and Apache Shindig code base.

Viva La OpenAppRevolution!

Post on behalf of Matt Marum, Senior Engineer, IBM, by Mark Weitzel, President, OpenSocial Foundation

OpenAppRevolution at E2.0!!

We are continuing our momentum that we built from the OpenSocial State of the Union where we kicked off the "Open App Revolution"! OpenSocial will be present at a number of upcoming conferences and community driven events in the next few months.

We've working with the organizers of the E2.0 conference and they are excited to extend the OpenSocial community an invitation to the conference, with significant savings to you! Here's E2.0 exclusive invitation to the OpenSocial Community:

Hello members of the Open Social community! 

It’s our pleasure to welcome you the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, June 20-23^rd at the Hynes Convention Center. The Open Social Foundation is supporting a number of important programs at the upcoming conference and will be on hand to educate conference attendees on the latest developments on Open Social.

As a member of the Open Social community you can take advantage of the following offer. Register today to get a free Expo Pass or save up to $400 off Conference Passes* with Priority Code CPGGEB01. Get a Full Conference pass for access to the conference, workshops, expo pavilion, Launch Pad, free programs, and keynotes and general sessions covering the spectrum of Enterprise 2.0.

See you in BostonEnterprise 2.0 Conference 

There will be a number of our key OpenSocial leaders there, e.g. Matt Tucker, the Board member from Jive Software will be on a panel discussing the value of OpenSocial in the Enterprise. We'll also have four speaking sessions where we will be covering the exciting work going on with version 2.0. Here's the schedule of speakers in the theatre. (Make sure to confirm the times when you're at the confernence.)

Date/Time	Topic	Presenter
Tuesday 4:00pm	Enterprise App Markets	Matt Tucker, CTO Jive Software
Tuesday 4:30pm	App Sandbox & Embedded Experience	Andrew Davis, IBM
Wednesday 12:00pm	OpenSocial Apps in Mobile	David Robinson, IBM
Wednesday 4:30pm	Activity Streams	David Robinson, IBM

We'll also have a table manned by David, Matt, and a few others who will be there to help you understand the value of an open, community driven standard, that can drive the next generation fo business applications, on prem or in the cloud.

We are excited about E2.0 and can't wait to see you there!!!

Viva la OpenAppRevolution!

Posted by Mark Weitzel, President, OpenSocial Foundation

Go play in the sandbox!

OpenSocial 2.0 Container Open to All!
At the OpenSocial State of the Union on May 12th we (Andrew Davis (IBM) and Ryan Baxter (IBM)) announced that we have built a sandbox environment for app developers to test their apps agains the OpenSocial 2.0 specification.


We have built a sample collaboration application that contains an activity stream, inbox, and an area to render arbitrary gadgets.  The sandbox is based on a daily build of Shindig 3.0 which is the reference implementation for OpenSocial 2.0. Gadget developers who are interested in building applications for OpenSocial 2.0 containers can go to the sandbox and add any gadget they please to test it out.

Future Plans
We plan to continue to work on the sandbox to refine it and make it more complete.  The social data in the collaboration application is not very robust, and we'd like to include a more complete set so developers can better test their applications.  If you've got ideas, let us know--there's lots of ways you can help!


The data in the inbox and activity stream is static and will remain that way but they plan to add functionality so developers can add their own activities and emails for a given session.  This will be key for testing OpenSocial gadgets that use embedded experiences. There are also several pieces of the OpenSocial specification which have not been implemented in the container yet.  For example, gadget preferences, pubsub2, and some gadget to container APIs like gadget.window.setTitle.  


Over the coming weeks and months we'll work implementing the missing pieces from the specification so the sandbox is more complete.  We've also reached out to the Shindig community so a daily build of Shindig is automatically deployed to the server.  This will allow app developers to develop gadgets against cutting edge OpenSocial proposals. At some point the application will become part of Shindig, allowing the community to continue to enhance the sandbox as the specification progresses.  


We would love to hear your feedback so please post your ideas to speciification's Google group.




Posted on behalf of Ryan Baxter and Andrew Davis by Mark Weitzel, President, OpenSocial Foundation