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Open Web Foundation

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The Open Web Foundation claims to be a collaborative effort to create specifications for the World Wide Web following the Open Source model, providing a lightweight framework to help communities deal with the legal requirements necessary to create successful specifications (from the company web site).

History

The Open Web Foundation was announced July 24th, 2008 at OSCON. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Industry Support

According to its web site, the Open Web Foundation is supported by the following companies and organizations:

See Also

References

  1. ^ "Announcing the Open Web Foundation". Open Web Foundation.
  2. ^ "Open Web Foundation to Keep Data 'Open'". eWeek.
  3. ^ "Open Web Foundation a new club for standards makers". CNET.
  4. ^ "Open Web Foundation Officially Launches". Washington Post.
  5. ^ "Open Web Foundation formed". The Industry Standard.