Re: [unhosted] Scientific reference
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Nov 23, 2012, 12:25:22 AM11/23/12
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hi!
Cool stuff! Do you want to refer to the "project"/"movement" and the people who contribute, or to the technology? We try to keep the following two things separate:
- "the unhosted project", an anarchistic research project ran by a lose group of people posting random ideas to this mailing list. There is not much need (i think) to write about this, other than that, yes, there is research going on outside academia and outside well-known organizations like w3c, ietf, mozilla and google. :)
- "unhosted web apps", an approach to software where the browser is used as a runtime platform for client-side ("unhosted") apps rather than server-side ("hosted") apps.
>From a technical standpoint,I continuously try to fight the idea that the act of building and using unhosted web apps is somehow related to being a member of any such group, in the hope to remove any entry barriers - unhosted web apps are a web technology just like, for instance, css or json-ld is one, and everybody can (and should!) use it where applicable.
If you're interested in unhosted web apps as part of your thesis interest, you might want to attend http://2013.unhosted.org/ - it's an unconference so anybody can join and present.
And then finally, to answer your question, the state of the art in unhosted web apps is best captured by the 14 talks that were given at http://2012.unhosted.org/
Unfortunately, since this is an unconference and talks were pretty much improvised in the moment, based on loose material, there are no posters or academic articles you can refererence (not even abstracts, actually) but for almost all the talks, videos and/or sound recordings are online, so I don't know if that counts as a bibliographic reference for your thesis, but you can at least watch the videos that interest you, refer to it as such.
As for current activity, most of us are now working on remoteStorage.js, modules for remoteStorage.js, and unhosted web apps that store user data via remoteStorage.js. This is also probably clear from the videos of Unhost'12. :)
Hope this helps! Let me know if there is anything else you would like to know - we are also on irc (http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=unhosted)
Cheers,
Michiel.
Cool stuff! Do you want to refer to the "project"/"movement" and the people who contribute, or to the technology? We try to keep the following two things separate:
- "the unhosted project", an anarchistic research project ran by a lose group of people posting random ideas to this mailing list. There is not much need (i think) to write about this, other than that, yes, there is research going on outside academia and outside well-known organizations like w3c, ietf, mozilla and google. :)
- "unhosted web apps", an approach to software where the browser is used as a runtime platform for client-side ("unhosted") apps rather than server-side ("hosted") apps.
>From a technical standpoint,I continuously try to fight the idea that the act of building and using unhosted web apps is somehow related to being a member of any such group, in the hope to remove any entry barriers - unhosted web apps are a web technology just like, for instance, css or json-ld is one, and everybody can (and should!) use it where applicable.
If you're interested in unhosted web apps as part of your thesis interest, you might want to attend http://2013.unhosted.org/ - it's an unconference so anybody can join and present.
And then finally, to answer your question, the state of the art in unhosted web apps is best captured by the 14 talks that were given at http://2012.unhosted.org/
Unfortunately, since this is an unconference and talks were pretty much improvised in the moment, based on loose material, there are no posters or academic articles you can refererence (not even abstracts, actually) but for almost all the talks, videos and/or sound recordings are online, so I don't know if that counts as a bibliographic reference for your thesis, but you can at least watch the videos that interest you, refer to it as such.
As for current activity, most of us are now working on remoteStorage.js, modules for remoteStorage.js, and unhosted web apps that store user data via remoteStorage.js. This is also probably clear from the videos of Unhost'12. :)
Hope this helps! Let me know if there is anything else you would like to know - we are also on irc (http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=unhosted)
Cheers,
Michiel.
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