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Google Wave Looking To Join Apache Software Foundation

Posted by samzenpus on from the part-of-the-gang dept.

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."

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  1. Hope by Konsalik · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I really hope Wave lives on. It is really a great idea albeit a bit to ambitious for its time (The whole lets replace email overnight thing). Maybe with some TLC from the OS community and a while in the incubator we can have a truly ripe and great piece of software.

    1. Re:Hope by Bieeanda · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Really, claiming that it was an e-mail replacement/killer/evolution was the biggest mistake they made. Wave is what it is: very inexpensive collaboration software. That's an absolutely fantastic thing for teleconferencing, but just shy of totally useless for the average consumer's everyday purposes. I think it's fantastic that they've open sourced the project, and I do hope that it makes it into an incubator, because similar software from outfits like Adobe and Co. are loopily expensive, and this could be a real benefit for organizations that run on a fraying shoestring budget. I just hope that people can get past the claim that Wave's apple was really an orange.

  2. Re:Hosted Wave by Konsalik · · Score: 3, Informative

    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."

  3. I just hope that Google cleans up their act by bogaboga · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Here's why:

    I have a Chrome bug to submit, log onto my Google account, type details of my bug and sadly, I find the 'submit' button disabled.

    Sometimes, I am not surprised that Google Wave "bit the dust."

    1. Re:I just hope that Google cleans up their act by gmor · · Score: 4, Informative

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

  4. Re:great app, lousy implementation by davros-too · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I agree the implementation was lousy. Unfortunately, now that Google isn't backing wave, fixing the implementation will not prevent wave from languishing in obscurity. By its nature wave is only useful if many of the people you know or work with are signed up. Open source can fix the implementation, but its lousy at marketing.

    --
    In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice; in practice there is.
  5. Re:WAVE still exists! by batkiwi · · Score: 4, Informative

    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?

  6. Re:Good by CohibaVancouver · · Score: 3, Informative

    Do you have a link to the youtube video?

    Here you go:

    http://tinyurl.com/yjuygc3

  7. Re:WAVE still exists! by CyDharttha · · Score: 3, Informative

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

  8. Re:Hosted Wave by stiggle · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.