Serenoa project is now registered at Ohloh, a social community online to manage open source coding.

Ohloh is a software directory for generation of community-driven content. Source code crawlers permit the dynamic monitoring of the development activities. Ohloh will be used from now on as a functional code repository for the Serenoa project. It also permits to crawl the svn, to generate code metrics, and to execute collaborative commits.

Any developer can use Ohloh’s directory to look for projects and softwares, and also to look for developers who are interested in collaborating with open source projects. Ohloh permits the analysis of review reports, the comparison of different projects and languages, and the analysis of contributions per developer.

The most popular projects of Ohloh include: Mozilla Firefox, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, PHP, Linux Kernel and Firebug. The project of Mozilla Firefox, for instance, counts today with 10813 users.

Ohloh’s most active projects include: Gentoo Linux, OpenX, Arch Linux Packages, GNOME, Chromium (Google Chrome), Linux Kernel and Boot to Gecko. The Gentoo Linux project, for instance, has today 7687 comits.

You can find further information about Ohloh’s projects at: https://www.ohloh.net/

The first face to face meeting of the MBUI Working Group was held in DFKI venues from 9 to 10 February in Kaiserslautern (Germany). More than 20 participants were present there to discuss the main points of model based development of User Interface description languages. The benefits and shortcomings of this approach were highlighted, and the main concepts of the abstract levels (task and domain, and abstract UI) were discussed.

The working group received 8 submissions of proposals for UIDLs, these proposals will be continuously analysed and discussed until the achievement of a recommendation candidate by 30 August 2013.

Participants visiting Living Lab – Smart Factory at DFKI, Kaiserslautern (Germany).

More face to face meetings and weekly calls are planned to support the work of the members. Further information about the group are available online at: http://www.w3.org/2011/01/mbui-wg-charter

Gerrit Meixner is the initial chair of the group, and Dave Raggett is the contact person.

Serenoa M18 review will be held in Brussels on April 17th. The venue will be at UCL facilities in Brussels (same place than M12 review meeting).
It is a convenient place for the Project Officer and the reviewers and also for some partners.
The previous day (April 16th), Serenoa Consortium will meet to prepare the review.

After submitting M18 deliverables, we will hold our next Consortium Meeting, this time in Sophia Antipolis (France) at W3C premises.
It will take place on March 5-6.

The Unit of Device Independence and Mobility of the R&D Department at Fundación CTIC (Centro Tecnológico) is preparing a distributed Device Description Repository and is asking for external collaboration.

Device Description Repository (DDR)

A DDR is a database that stores devices’ information concerning their hardware and software features. A DDR can retrieve various information, such as: the device vendor, the operating system version, the web browser installed, available sensors (e.g. compass, accelerometers, camera, microphone), the CPU model, primary and secondary memories that are installed, the available storage, the screen dimensions, the screen resolution in pixels, the Bluetooth version, audio and video codecs that are supported, and so on. Most of the information can be known beforehand, because DDRs keep the static information which does not change over time.

In order to help developing CTIC’s DDR, please access this URL, in which you will find further information about this work and the instructions to collaborate with it too.