In case you missed WIPJam at Awsome (OSIM)
At this stage if you have missed OSIM / WIPJam… there is no consolation other than reading the #osim tweets or consulting some of the great summaries written on the subject, and to quote just a few see the links at the bottom of this post, with hopefully more links from you soon…
A lot of OSIM summaries but no WIPJam summary so far which this post sets to correct… with a quick overview of the 2 unpanels.
This should be followed by a short series of posting summarizing the various discussion groups…
Open services architectures
Open Source is all about community and developers… and sometimes developer communities (*)… And thus they should be a key part of Open Source in Mobile ! That's why we partnered with Informa to bring WIPJam to OSIM, invite developers to participate for free, and have a bit of collaborative thinking and exchange during the day!
Our first unpanel focussed on openness and all its variants… The session covered a lot…
- Operators struggling to be as opened as they would like to because of local regulations told Chris Fromm of E-plus
- Claudia Backus (Motorola) and Lars Kurth (Symbian Foundation) started a series of questions exploring the motivations behind targeting a platform whether Android or Symbian. To find out that developers thought that the interesting part in Android was more the buzz and the opportunity promise rather than the fact that it is open source (even though all agreed to say that open source should not only be seeing the code but also getting bug fixed… and one of our developers had managed the feat!!!! which left Lefty (Access) voiceless for a good 5 minutes)
- Choosing the right niche to open source in, with Dave Axmark reminding people of the surprised looks he got when he launched MySQL
- Governance models and the best approach to take when setting open source communities, from completely open to a mix of community source and open source, sparkled a good discussion led by Ralph Mueller from Eclipse Foundation
A lot covered, but also a lot of subjects to be explored in more depth… Anyone wants to continue the conversation?
Choosing the right niche (and carpet) is sometimes baffling
Discussion groups brought their usual brouhaha and debates… with results sometimes esoteric, but discussion group leaders have promised to post out more details on the subject soon.
Stay tuned for more summaries from our various discussion group!
Our second unpanel for the day was about mobile web development… trying to shed some lights on the complex world of widgets, mobile web, application or not application… or as represented on our panel, JIL (Vodafone) , BONDI (OMTP), html5 (W3C), transcoding (Siruna) or offering a pure web service REST (Layar).
A bit of clarification was needed first of all to define what widgets are after the debate earlier on this year (still on?)… Which Francois Daoust (W3C) gave explaining what a widget was as per W3C standard which sounded very similar to "an application written by a web developer !!!" ; followed by an unanimous consensus that:
- Widget are applications
- It is possible to make money from mobile widgets (someone actually pointed out that iPhone was a brilliant example of that)
- Whatever fragmentation exists is not specific to mobile but reflective on what's happening on the web (hopefully this could mean banning the term fragmentation from any mobile conversation from now)
- Web development is much easier than traditional mobile development (earlier on in the day Tom Deryckere from Siruna had indulged the WIPJam with a live coding session showing how one could mobilize a website in 1 hour… )
- Web development is popular and there are many web developers out there! In a few months of existence Layar already has 111 layers developed for their site internationally with a large contingent from Japan! (Dirk Groten CTO of Layar was exhausting after being asked to give demos all day but managed to give us the figures )
Does it sound too easy, too simplistic? Waiting for opinions…
Big thanks to all who joined us! With a special WIPThank to the unpanel, the discussion group leaders, and all of you who had to face their fears of microphones! We look forward to seeing you all the future! CTIA maybe??
Gracious party thrown by Nokia and Tmobile
As promised here are a few summaries of OSIM, feel free to post more!
- Peter Vescuso : Observations from the 2009 Open Source in Mobile (OSiM) Conference: Open Source…Perfect and Free?
- Philipp Deprez : Review: OSiM World, Open Source in Mobile, Amsterdam
- Roberto Gallopini : Effective Commercial Open Source Strategies Reloaded
- David Wood : Five reasons open source won't work in mobile(?)
And a final special thanks for Nokia and T-Mobile for organizing a great party on the last day of OSIM… or was it gate crashing?
(*) Thanks to Tony from Mobile Sorcery for the inspiration with his famous "Symbian is open source as in open and source!"
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