Putting this thread back on the list - see some interesting suggestions from Andrew below: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andrew de Andrade <andrew@deandrade.com.br> Date: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:33 PM Subject: Re: [occi-wg] OCCI JavaScript libarary To: Sam Johnston <samj@samj.net> ahh, doh! go ahead. i'm working at home today and I'm using gmail and i forgot to do reply all. On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Sam Johnston <samj@samj.net> wrote:
Andrew, Great suggestion - do you have a problem with my putting this back on the list? Sam
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Andrew de Andrade < andrew@deandrade.com.br> wrote:
true.
There's a bunch of open source management consoles that it may be worth reaching out to in order tog et them on board if they aren't already:
http://www.openqrm.com/ http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/ http://ovirt.org/
there was a fourth I knew of, but I can't remember the name of it at the moment.
Projects such as Puppet could also be included.
Andrew
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Sam Johnston <samj@samj.net> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Andrew de Andrade <andrew@deandrade.com.br> wrote:
I wouldn't too much about standardizing user experience interfaces. If a standard API interface is created, an open source interface that works with any standard API cloud is sure to come about.
True - it's not even so much about standardising the interface as lowering the barrier to entry. If you can "explore" it as a developer or power user via a web browser and then it behaves the same way for your code (same URLs, relationships, etc. - just different as in native renderings) that's a big win for lowering the barrier to entry. It's also one less thing for providers to build separately, and means that web consoles will have both the freedom to innovate/differentiate while also looking & feeling somewhat similar. Currently there's a mishmash of flash, ajax & html consoles that present a [human] barrier to migration. I agree that this should be a distant second priority, but if we can have it for free then we may as well (and it ought to keep the XML camp happy too). Sam