xml-dev - Distributed Computing at WWW9

[Dave Winer <dave@userland.com>]

I was named Co-Chair for the Developer's Day "Distributed Computing
on the Web" track at WWW9 in Amsterdam next May. My fellow chair is
Annrai O'Toole of Iona, an expert on CORBA. I guess XML-RPC is being
acknowledged. Thanks!

http://www9.org/w9-call-developer.html

We're in the Call for Participation stage, which means that if you have work related to Distributed Computing on the Web that you would like to present to developers at WWW9, now is the time to start thinking and get ready to answer the call soon. I'm a newbie at chairing for a technical conference, but I'm looking forward to the experience, and creating an informative and productive experience for the people attending and speaking at WWW9 on this subject.

Another announcement, we've started a web-based discussion group at XML-RPC.COM. This request came from a few people, the rollover rate at discuss.userland.com is high enough that the XML-RPC messages were getting lost. Now we'll have a place to present new ideas that's just for XML-RPC. We plan to post some specs for a couple of protocols in the next few weeks, one to enable a "network computing" model for desktop text editing tools (ie WPs, outliners, spreadsheets, etc.) and another for a distributed user preferences system. It makes sense that XML-RPC become its own interactive venue, so now we've made that possible:

http://www.xmlrpc.com/discuss/

Still diggin!

Dave