« Google's Rajdeep Dua... | Main | Leaving Sun... »

Upcoming: Shindig for Blogs and Wikis, ApacheCon EU

The other day I got the happy news that my one of my proposed sessions was accepted for ApacheCon EU. ApacheCon and Amsterdam are definitely among my favorite places to be, so I'm thrilled. You ought to go too; here's the information on the conference, which will include training, the hackathon and a BarCamp.

ApacheCon Europe 2009 (link)

23-27 March 2009 | Mövenpick Hotel, Amsterdam
Pricing (register before Feb 6 for discount)

My session is titled Shindig for Blogs and Wikis. I'll cover different approaches to adding social features to blogs and wikis and I'll zoom-in on OpenSocial related options Shindig and Project SocialSite. Here's the abstract, with some formatting that is missing from the ApacheCon site:

Blogs, wikis and feeds helped to make the web more social by making it easy for folks to read, write and have conversations on the web; and now social networking technologies are making the web and even more social.

In this session you'll learn about OpenSocial, a new standard for interacting with social networking data via Web Service and via JavaScript Gadgets that can be embedded into social networking sites. You'll learn about Apache Shindig (incubating), which is the reference implementation of OpenSocial, and how it can be used to add support for social networking and gadgets to existing web applications and specifically Apache Roller and Apache JSPWiki. The session will cover:

  • Quick introduction to OpenSocial and Shindig
  • Overview of products/services that leverage OpenSocial
  • Benefits of social networking in blogs and wikis
  • How to support Google Gadgets in Roller and JSPWiki via Shindig
  • How to enable social features in Roller and JSPWiki via Shindig
  • How to add comprensive social graph support to Roller and JSPWiki via SocialSite
  • How to create an OpenSocial Applications that access Roller and JSPWiki

I'm already working on the demos and slides for this as it's going to be quite a bit of work. Fortunately, I'll be able to recycle some of the material in some other upcoming gigs.

Comments:

Sounds good! Too bad, I am not around this year

Posted by Matthias Wessendorf on January 22, 2009 at 12:56 AM EST #

Thanks for the head's up about your talk. Because much of the work you do is pro-bono, the community depends on blogging just like this to let us know what is going on!

Posted by Michael Levin on January 24, 2009 at 12:48 PM EST #

Post a Comment:
  • HTML Syntax: NOT allowed

« Google's Rajdeep Dua... | Main | Leaving Sun... »

Welcome

This is just one entry in the weblog Blogging Roller. You may want to visit the main page of the weblog

Related entries

Below are the most recent entries in the category Social Software, some may be related to this entry.