google wave api

A drupal interface module sounds great.

Drupal from scratch?
I've been reading about the functionality of waves: email, instant messaging, groups, invitations, file sharing, integration with blogs, twitter, social networking api's, basically all creating a collaborative environment; and it seems to me that drupal has already made big headway toward integrating all these areas. If fact, from what I have read so far, recreating the functionality of google waves from the ground up in drupal doesn't seem all that hard programmatically. From what I hear, Google is going to open source a protocol, which an integration module would be built upon (importing exporting collaborative waves?), so there is probably no reason to recreate anything, but only integrate.

While I'm on the topic, I think drupal could recreate Knowledgetree, SugarCRM from scratch fairly easily also. I know there are also interface modules for these, and these projects are already open source, but this leads me to my last thought and a question for the drupal community...

What would be the developmental benefit for recreate a project like this from scratch?

For example, a drupal project management discussion group has talked about a drupal based project management system for some time.

I think the answer may be unrestricted customization by not being limited by the API of one of these existing non-drupal systems.

I'd like to hear more thoughts.

I'm watching video from I/O now and it seems the integration of Wave is pretty easy. They showed Wave Embedding Api in custom made blog and Lars Rasmussen said that embedding "provide very live rich experience with very little code".

IMO, i actually don't think that Drupal needs full Wave implementation.
Wave could be used as an independent conversation system module for drupal with integration of users and stuff (maybe bio, avatar, etc but i think it'll be hard).
This module will provide for example new menu "Conversations" or "Waves" or wahtever you want and basically it will be module like Forum and Blog.
Also i think it'll be possible to integrate Blog and/or Forum module with Google Wave so by creating Blog Post/Forum Topic new conversation will be created in Google Wave, i aslo think that comment system for blogs which will be connected to G Wave should be replaced with G Wave reply system. No idea how it'll work if you want to allow anonymous comments, maybe Google Wave allows them so at least this problem's solved.

By the way, scince G Wave is open source Lars Rasmussen said that it's possible to take wave code and create own wave server.

P.S.: Here's embedding guide: http://code.google.com/intl/ru/apis/wave/embed/

drag and drop

Apart from entire wave integration, some of the techniques used in the demo are really cool to integrate to improve drupal ux. Drag and drop is just one of them. The demo shows so much more! But anyway, this is just about the drag and drop. As the whole of internet is moving toward mobile phones and touch interface, lack of drag and drop is starting to become an annoying interface limitation.

Rasmussen & co showed drag and drop from the desktop using Gears. They aim to get this as a standard into html5. This is going to take ages and based on their history, I wonder if microsoft will ever get onboard. What would be cool in Drupal is to have a support-api for drag and drop from different tools doing the same thing (gears, air, .net/silverlight, java), so that when the enduser has just one of these environments installed, they could use this functionality on a drupal site.
Onsite drag and drop (like with the waves in the demo) is something that should become available with Drupal 7 already.

Sidenotes

The wave demo is a development on the same track as that of (embedded) field and drupal 7/8 in general: improved touch and feel user interface, mobile implementation, collaboration and an online work environment.

I wonder about the wave protocol itself. I can imagine that it is necessary to have that live online collaboration from the demo, which is awesome.

The wave demo

Go check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ

And Gábor is our prophet!

http://hojtsy.hu/blog/2008-sep-23/drupal-make-waves-and-mysite-running-s...

watching the 80-minute presentation introducing google wave makes me wonder what impact the successful adoption of Google Wave could have on existing & competing content management systems (drupal, joomla, wordpress), version control systems (subversion, cvs, hg, monotone), instant messaging networks (aim, icq, jabber, msn, yim) photo sharing networks (flickr, webshots, picasa), social networks (orkut, facebook, twitter) etc. its like a next-generation platform that elegantly integrates and builds on all of the existing communication media. the tim o'reilly blog write-up is a good summary with screen captures: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/05/google-wave-what-might-email-l.html

--sean

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Seems like someone wants to do it :D
http://drupal.org/project/wave

Hi all,

I've started a DrupalWave Twitter account for us to use. I know it's not convenient for long posts but maybe just some of the more announcement-type stuff and smaller issues could be addressed there. I expect that I'm hardly the best candidate for inside information and the latest scoops -- I just want to make sure that we have a voice out there in Twitterland and to contribute any way I can. Having issued that last caveat, if folks are okay with me doing it, and would be willing to communicate with me about any news or announcements they have, I would be honored to do the posting to Twitter. If I don't have your vote of confidence on this though, no problem at all - I can transfer the account to whomever the group designates, or even delete the account entirely - we can always just use hashtags instead of having a formal account. I'm open to anything the group wants to do. The absolute key thing here is that people are willing to participate and respond as a group. It's only as useful as we make it, just like the IRC.

Also, I'd love it if any of you who are into it could reply to this post with lists of people you think we should Follow.

Thoughts?
-Kelly Bell

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Anyone know how to change the sandbox embed code to use the "new" urls?

This is the important bit from the code:

<script src="http://wave-api.appspot.com/public/embed.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    function initialize() {
      var wavePanel = new WavePanel('http://wave.google.com/a/wavesandbox.com/');
      wavePanel.loadWave('wavesandbox.com!w+[waveID]');
      wavePanel.init(document.getElementById('waveframe'));
    }
</script>

Find more info here: http://code.google.com/apis/wave/embed/guide.html

Cheers, e

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Hey guys,
I'd like to push this a little, so I'll be giving my google wave invites out for the cause, on one condition: you return the favor (after I'm out of invites, pass yours on to others in this forum). I've been invited and I'm just waiting for it to come through (I've been warned this can take a while).

Reply to this comment with your email address and someone (me or others) will send you and invite. Before sending the invite however, please ensure you've replied to the request, so we don't get duplicate invites. I'm pretty sure that everyone gets 20 invites, so this should get everyone who wants an invite in. Hope to see you on the wave,

Calvin Tennant
figmentmedia.ca

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So there's experimental support for Google Wave in Embedded Media Field. It's not fleshed out yet, and could use more attention, for any keen developers. I plan to work on that after I've finished getting the Media module whipped into shape.

Hi everyone, I just received my Wave preview account. Has anyone integrated wave on a Drupal website yet? Perhaps there is a way for me to contibute? I have some recourses I could make available. I could offer up some server space or set up a drupal intranet/ webiste for the general good purpose of getting wave functionality and interactions between websites and their visitors?