[xwiki-devs] Announcing the XWiki Concerto research project

Hi everyone, I don't think this news was shared with the community yet: XPertNet's team (http://www.xwiki.com) has been selected by the French Research Agency together with a set of partners for conducting a research project for adding P2P and mobility capabilities to XWiki. This project is called "XWiki Concerto". The objectives are the following: - design a fault tolerant P2P architecture for XWiki supporting large scale collaborative editing on a set of peers that synchronize their changes regularly using reconciliation algorithms, - support mobility work: off-line capabilities and UI dedicated to mobile handsets. This project will allow to design a P2P XWiki farm that will scale at much lower costs than classical solutions and will let XWiki users work offline and from handsets with limited capabilities. The set of partners are INRIA, ENST, Mandriva and EISTI. The project's web site is http://concerto.xwiki.com. INRIA teams include ECOO (Environments for COOperation) [1] and ATLAS [2]. ECOO team has expertise in reconciliation techniques, ATLAS has expertise in P2P databases. ENST team focuses on the mobility aspects. EISTI is bringing security expertise. XPertNet, Mandriva and INRIA will experiment with the solutions respectively in the context of the XWiki.com farm, the Mandriva Club wiki and the OW2 wiki. [1] http://www.loria.fr/equipes/ecoo/english/index.html [2] http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/lina/ATLAS/ We already delivered a first version of specifications and use cases but it's in French: http://concerto.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/download/Main/L2/xwikiconcerto-l2.pdf We're currently designing a set of complementary XWiki APIs. I'll send some proposals to the devs list in the next days. Your feedback will be most welcome. There will be many interesting synergies with XEclipse off-line work of course. That'd be good also to investigate about the eRCP capabilities http://www.eclipse.org/ercp/ Cheers Stéphane -- Stéphane Laurière slauriere(a)xwiki.com XWiki http://www.xwiki.com http://concerto.xwiki.com http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org