OpenAjax.Com

I can not fully express my frustration with the progress of the OpenAjax Alliance.

I transfered the OpenDomain OpenAjax.Org to the Alliance back in 2006. I have asked Jon Ferraiolo to add link to OpenDomain.Org and I have received NO communication on the progress of this simple task. When we gave the domain ecmascript.org to Brendan Eich, he added a link within a day. The longest time anyone took was one month when we donated xmpp.org to Jabber eight years ago.

Let me explain about OpenDomain: we are not for profit. We do not have advertisements. We are not interested in link spam. I like to think of it as Open Source for Domains: I work hard to buy domains from squatters so I can contribute to the Open Web. Check the archives: We have never sold a domain, published spam, played dumb SEO tricks, or anything. And yet even when I spent tens of thousands of dollars to acquire domains for Open groups, I do not get even a thank-you.

After a scouring the OpenAjax wiki, I finally found that the new web site proposal may have a link to OpenDomain. For that, I am grateful . However, that still does not explain why it has taken so long and especially why no one has ever communicated with me.

However, the link to OpenDomain is a small thing (except to me, of course.) Want to know what the REAL problem is? No one CARES. For a concrete example, Go to the best job search site on the web and look for OpenAjax: http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=openajax - not ONE job labeled ‘OpenAjax’. Does ANYONE on the Alliance marketing committee understand branding? A cute little logo and some fake press releases just are not cutting it. When I went to the Ajax Experience, most developers I talked to did not even KNOW what ‘OpenAjax’ was.

I am NOT saying that Jon has done a bad job. I can see that he has worked hard to facilitate agreements between significant delegates with opposing needs. I also appreciate the time from all members to further the art of Ajax. The problem is that it is not really open to developers and is too SLOW. Ajax is supposed to be the ‘hot’ technology and we are still trying to agree on the hub? Look at what happened with the W3C: vendors became frustrated with time to market and developed their own separate solutions and now all web developers suffer to target multiple implementations.

I am calling for a CHANGE of the OpenAjax Alliance: You MUST improve your communications to non-members. You MUST follow through with your commitments. You MUST form a real organization with targeted goals. You MUST ask the member companies to donate the resources of some full time developers.

I recently received a sizable offer to sell OpenAjax.Com, but I was afraid the buyer would use it to display p0rn. I am willing to donate for FREE the use of to create a portal for developers, to promote the use of OpenAjax.

Is ANYONE interested?