From: Norbert Bollow <nb@thinkcoach.com> To: developers@dotgnu.org, FreeDevelopers@topica.com Subject: This week in DotGNU - no 1 Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:55:20 +0200 Cc: tony@freedevelopers.net This week in DotGNU - no 1 (October 19, 2001) ============================================= See http://dotgnu.org for general background information. After a temporary slowdown, DotGNU is quickly picking up speed again, and I have decided to start publishing weekly summaries of what has been going on in various areas of DotGNU; I plan to write something about four areas of DotGNU every week (where the choice of the four areas will vary from week to week). DotGNU Portable.NET ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This part of DotGNU contains a C# compiler, runtime engine, and related tools. There is as always good, steady progress. (This part of DotGNU had never slowed down). DotGNU SEE ~~~~~~~~~~ This Secure Execution Environment allows bytecode to be executed securely on the end user's machine, allowing in particular the end user to execute webservice software locally, so that no-one can be locked into using the software as a webservice instead of running it locally. There has not been any progress with the code this week (the code is written in C++ by the way... anyone interested in helping to hack on it?) but at least the Steering Committee has been able to resolve some internal misunderstandings related to the need for an official Windows port of DotGNU SEE.... yes, we're (reluctantly!) going to ask Windows programmers to help with this. (Our goals are to further the development and use of Free Software in general, and to enhance the GNU operating system in particular, not just make a popular collection of software. We want to provide users with a way to get more jobs done in full freedom, not just with some useful software packages. However, in order for DotGNU to do its job, it needs to be popular. For that reason, we are giving Windows support a somewhat higher priority level than it would normally have in a GNU project.) Authentication, Authorization and Virtual Identities ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The FrePort project of John le'Brecage is going forward, and it is now listed at http://dotgnu.org/proposals/active.html - This is will not be DotGNU's only auth project, I expect that at least one or two others will follow soon. DotGNU - Jabber meetings ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Adam Theo is organizing weekly meetings for discussing possibilities of using the Jabber protocol suite in DotGNU. These meetings are well-attended, and things are starting to happen. I expect that an auth project will come out of this, and also a system (consisting of sysadmin tools and middleware) for managing the distributed flow of information through a network of webservice servers. Greetings, Norbert. "This week in DotGNU" is Copyright (C) 2001 by Norbert Bollow. Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire issue is permitted in any medium or format, provided this notice is preserved. ==================================================================END. -- A member of FreeDevelopers and the DotGNU Steering Committee: dotgnu.org Norbert Bollow, Weidlistr.18, CH-8624 Gruet (near Zurich, Switzerland) Tel +41 1 972 20 59 Fax +41 1 972 20 69 http://thinkcoach.com Your own domain with all your Mailman lists: $15/month http://cisto.com ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?b1dh5g.b13hdp Or send an email To: freedevelopers-unsubscribe@topica.com This email was sent to: corbet-fd@lwn.net T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================