Type 101

Shindig is a new project in the Apache Software Foundation incubator and is an open source implementation of the OpenSocial and gadgets specifications. The goal of Shindig is to make it quick and easy for sites to get up and running as OpenSocial "containers", which them allows 3rd party developers to build social apps for those sites.

This session will explain what Shindig is, how it is being used, as well as the relevant technical components, interfaces, and processes to help developers leverage Shindig to extend the functionality of their social site. We'll close with a demo of Shindig and Q&A.

Dan Peterson

Dan Peterson is a product manager on Google's developer team, focusing on OpenSocial and Shindig. Previously, Dan led the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) team during the transition to becoming an open source project and worked on Google's infrastructure team on web search and datacenter management. Dan earned a B.S. Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as minors in Technology & Management and philosophy.

John Hjelmstad

John Hjelmstad is a software engineer at Google, currently serving as tech lead on gadgets and OpenSocial efforts within the company. He helped bootstrap the Shindig project's gadgets server, and continues to contribute to it along with the specifications for gadgets and OpenSocial. His previous Google work was in Google Apps, and before this worked at Amazon.com and A9.com in seller platform and local/maps teams, respectively. He received his BS in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2002.