Google Wave Looking To Join Apache Software Foundation

MMacFadden writes "The Google Wave team has officially submitted the open source version of Wave to the Apache Software Foundation as a candidate Incubator project. Google hopes that the wave technology will continue to grow, supported by the new open source community (which is made up of Google and non-Google employees alike). Here is the proposal itself."

Re:Hosted Wave

[Konsalik]

Read the linked article, they go into the details. "Unfortunately, Google did a poor job of clarifying the potential of Wave or helping users understand how to embrace and utilize it. The initial excitement gave way to confusion, followed by apathy, and eventually to Google deciding to kill the project--at least as far as Google hosting and supporting it is concerned."

Re:Hosted Wave

[Cinder6]

Maybe I need to RTFA, but I just went to http://google.com/wave [google.com] and it worked fine. I know it's no longer developed, but it still exists

Re:WAVE still exists!

[batkiwi]

It's going to be shut off in about 2 months, and they reassigned the entire team to other projects and the creator left to go to facebook, who just days ago announced an effort on a project "to replace email" with something more collaborative and real time.

Where have you been?

Re:WAVE still exists!

[batkiwi]

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html [blogspot.com]

Re:Good

[CohibaVancouver]

Do you have a link to the youtube video?

Here you go:

http://tinyurl.com/yjuygc3 [tinyurl.com]

Re:I am just glad that epSos.de is helpful

[Anonymous Coward]

Google is overwhelmed with bug reports.
Go to their support group forums for developers where the actual employees read.

Re:great app, lousy implementation

[cranos]

Well there are certainly a number of smaller and bigger organisations still looking into Wave. Novell is using Wave based tech for Pulse (no federation as yet but you never know) and at the summit we had a number of people keen to ensure that wave survives so they can build on it and make money.

Re:WAVE still exists!

[CyDharttha]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/01/lars-rasmussen-why-i-quit_n_776807.html [huffingtonpost.com]
http://gizmodo.com/5690405/facebook-email [gizmodo.com]
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/29/rasmussen-facebook-google/ [techcrunch.com]
http://www.google.com/ [google.com]

Re:Not a bad protocol per se

[cranos]

The protocols themselves are open and yes it allows distributed servers. Wave In A Box, the reference implementation is one such project and there are a small number of us who are running testing versions of this server.

Re:I just hope that Google cleans up their act

[gmor]

"Summary" is a required field when you report an issue. Type something and you can submit the bug.

Re:Hosted Wave

[stiggle]

Part of the incubator project is WAIB (Wave in a Box) - which you can download now off the main Wave Protocol website (www.waveprotocol.org) which allows you to run your own Wave Server - including a supplied web interface. The Wave protocol includes federation so you can link up WAIB.