[DotGNU]This week in DotGNU - no 1

[Norbert Bollow]

This week in DotGNU - no 1 (October 19, 2001)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.


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