> Thank you Dan and Diana for your support since day one, and for all your
> efforts in maintaining and growing this project over the last year !
> Onesocialweb was an awesome thing to build and I hope it helped a bit the
> #fsw community in sharing our vision of a user experience and technology
> architecture.

> The key thing we demonstrated is that a consistent user experience is
> possible, even across a federated environment. In onesocialweb, the user
> does never see or feel the edges of the federation, everything is happening
> in his client, in a consistent way. It does not matter if the users you are
> interacting with are 'local' or 'remote'. It does not matter what client and
> server are used on the other side. It just works. You are never forced to
> jump from one user experience to another as you hop from one node to the
> next.

> There are many other exciting initiatives in the XMPP Social world
> (buddycloud, jappix, process one,...), I remain convinced that XMPP can
> bring value to the #fsw (at least on the S2S federation side of things).
> Good luck to you all !

> Cheers,

> Laurent Eschenauer

> On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 10:22:15 PM UTC+2, Luca Faggioli (Openliven)
> wrote:

> > Hi Dan,
> > sorry to hear about that!

> > I still think that federated social networks is a great idea and I hope we
> > will hear of it more and more in the future.

> > Regarding OneSocialWeb in particular, I believe we are lacking users: it is
> > difficult not to admit that, after managing a OSW node for a year, having a
> > little more than 10 active users is not such a success!

> > Nevertheless, I will keep the node up and running still for a while and
> > let's see if any of us will come up with new ideas for developing the
> > project any further

> > Ciao
> > Luca

> > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device from WIND

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Appelquist, Daniel, VF-Group" <Daniel.A...@vodafone.com>
> > Sender: federated-...@googlegroups.com
> > Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:11:35
> > To: W3C Federated Social Web Incubator<public-xg-fede...@w3.org>
> > Reply-To: federated-...@googlegroups.com
> > Cc: <federated-...@googlegroups.com>; <onesoc...@googlegroups.com>
> > Subject: OneSocialWeb Project Status

> > Hello Federated Social Web peeps -

> > I'm writing to let you all know what is happening with the OneSocialWeb
> > project. As many of you know, this project was originally conceived by
> > Laurent Eschenauer and Alard Weisscher in late 2009.  Along with Diana
> > Cheng
> > (and with some encouragement and cheerleading from myself and others in
> > Vodafone R&D) they built the project up as a prototype of what you could do

> > with XMPP in the federated social networking space. Unfortunately, due to
> > some circumstances out of all of our control, Laurent and Alard had to
> > leave
> > Vodafone. At that point, we took the decision to continue the project with
> > myself and Diana. During the past year we have kept the project going,
> > including adding some new features (e.g. commenting) and we've also seen
> > the
> > open source community around OneSocialWeb grow, with a few
> > community-developed clients (notably, the iPhone client).  We've also
> > learned a lot about the federated social networking space both through the
> > project and through participation in the burgeoning community.

> > However, we have limited resources, and we have now taken the decision to
> > concentrate what time we can spend on the federated social Web in the area
> > of protocols and standards. This means we will not be actively updating the

> > code base for OneSocialWeb (server or client), nor will we be adding
> > features. We will Continue to work on the protocol, and will support any
> > implementers (such as ProcessOne) and collaborate with them to improve it
> > and expand it.  Our intention is to contribute the work we have done on
> > XMPP
> > extensions (e.g. Activity Streams over XMPP) into the relevant XMPP
> > technical committees.

> > Having said all that, all the code that has been produced is up there on
> > GitHub.  I know that several projects have used the code to develop their
> > own prototypes. It's our view that the OneSocialWeb open source community
> > has not grown to the point where it can become self-sustaining, but if
> > anyone would like to step forward to take ownership of the code-base we
> > would be more than happy to discuss this.

> > As we stated in the summit in Berlin, we are committed to making the FSW
> > a reality, and we (Diana and I) will continue actively participating in the

> > FSW incubator group and list and will con tribute to all the XMPP social
> > specs, and not only OSW. We will also like to be there to facilitate in any

> > way we can the work and activities of the FSW community.

> > Thanks,
> > Dan Appelquist
> > Vodafone Group R&D