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As soon as KIWI enters the use cases stage, collaboration with
business partners is going to gain particular importance. One of these
partners is Sun Microsystems
- who hardly need an introduction. Yet an interesting new fact that I
learned about Sun on Thursday was that they are not only a main
contributor to open source software development, but that they are also
opensourcing hardware: OpenSPARC is
the world’s first free 64-bit micro-processor - the source code for the
OpenSPARC T2 chip was released unter GNU GPL and can be downloaded here.
Sun is also known for making an authentic web2.0 commitment, building
communities within and beyond corporate boundaries: According to Josef Holy
(pic on the right), Sun interaction and social network designer, they
have literally hundreds of internal wikis, plus a universe of public wikis, public forums and blogs - Jonathan Schwartz is blogging, too.
So Sun has extensive experience with developing community infrastructures, for instance also in association with NetBeans,
their integrated development environment, which is used by about 200
Sun developers, thousands of external contributors and hundreds of
thousands of active users. The development of NetBeans might also serve
as a testbed for KIWI,
as the usecase conducted in collaboration with Sun is going to focus on
software knowledge management; Josef suggested that KIWI should serve
as a structured hub in an unstructured environment. When talking about
the ideal user-centred design, he presented an empty slide, pointing
out that no preconceived ideas must stand in the way, but that it must
reflect real world problems.
Another interesting proposal that might influce KIWI is Sun’s Community Equity Specification - Peter Reiser, Principal Engineer, CTO Office, and Chief Architect for CE2.0 blogged about this recently after the patents were finally filed:
The objective is to build a dynamic Social Value system
by calculating the Contribution, Participation, Skills, and Reputation
equity a person can gain by actively engaging in online communities.
The Equity values are captured through activities that the Community
members are participating in.
Also involved in the Sun usecase is the Semantic Web Company (i.e. my employer), and from SWC in particular Andreas Blumauer, Matthias Samwald and Tassilo Pellegrini.
Together and with the input of the entire KIWI team they are going to
do their best to explore the opportunities of combining bottom-up
maintenance (i.e. tagging and folksonomy) with top-down maintenance
(i.e. reasoning and ontologies). The Sun team includes Peter Reiser,
Josef Holy, Henry Story (semantic web evangelist - I already blogged
about him and Josef yesterday) and Inka Havlova who is backing the team with administrative power.
Read the original article: http://blog.semantic-web.at/?p=38
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