14 DAY TRIAL // Google may have given up on building Wave itself, but the project will live on. The company is taking all the necessary in ensuring that Wave transitions from a Google technology to a fully open-source project, dubbed Wave in a Box. Now, to update developers on the progress and get people involved with the project, it's holding a week-long summit next month.
"To bring the developer community together we are hosting a Wave Protocol Summit in San Francisco, November 2010," Alex North from the Google Wave team, announced.
"Through the summit we aim to grow the Wave developer community, share technical knowledge, and discuss the future of Wave technology and its community. The summit will be targeted towards technical people interested in using, contributing to, or building on Wave technology," the announcement added.
The discussions will center around the technical issues and is aimed squarely at developers interested in the project. Developers will get to enjoy three days of discussions from the people involved and then two days of coding.
Despite plans to shut down Wave servers and drop all development, Google is still committed to the project. The latest plan is to develop Wave in a Box, a complete sever and client app which would enable anyone to host their own servers.
Wave in a Box will not be completely on par with Google Wave, as it's being offered today, but will retain many of its key aspects. What's more, there will be able to import waves from the current Google infrastructure.
Specifically, Google aims to have a complete server and web-app bundle, hence the Wave in a Box name, which would enable real-time conversations very much like Google Wave does.
The backend needed to store and serve waves as well as support the real-time communication will also be made available. The Gadgets and Robots APIs will also be fully-supported.
Once completed, Wave in a Box should give anyone interested in hosting a wave all the tools necessary to do so. The hope is that, after that, the community will take over and continue the project and the San Francisco summit is part of that effort.