webinos participated in the Future Internet Assembly 2013 event, which was held in association with the Irish presidency of the Council of the EU in Dublin, 8-10th May 2013. Future Internet Assembly is a research community driven initiative [...] supported by more than 150 research projects that have recognised the need to strengthen European activities on the Future Internet (FI) to maintain European competitiveness in the global marketplace. [...]. FIA events have been hosted regularly by the European Commission since 2008 (http://www.future-internet.eu) aiming to redesign a significant part of the Internet, taking a broad multidisciplinary approach, to meet European societal, business and technology ambitions.

The theme for FIA-Dublin was “Future Internet accelerates Innovation”, and the event focused on how European Future Internet research and innovation will support EU’s competitiveness and enable a new wave of technologies at the eve of Horizon 2020 (ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/).

webinos had a strong presence at the event including a presentation of webinos by Javier Caminero, Program Manager at Telefonica R&D and webinos partner, a booth at the Exhibition area with several live webinos technology demos and a Poster. Exhibition visitors had the opportunity to see webinos in action through demos like the webinos-enabled Katwarn system, webinosTV, the car automation demo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9sH9pH_eK0) and some of the winning apps from the 2nd webinos App Challenge (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYxmvIhiDNE).

webinos delegation comprised Javier Caminero of Telefonica, Christian Fuhrhop of Fraunhofer FOKUS, Heiko Desruelle of iMinds, Nick Allot of NquiringMinds, Christos Botsikas of NTUA and George Voulgaris of VisionMobile.

The presentation that took place on the 28th of April focused on the webinos architecture and the ease by which web applications can be augmented and even be made possible with minimum effort using webinos, showcasing some of the best demos created for the platform, as well as the most successful entries in the latest App Challenge.

The webinos booth at the exhibition area was the perfect opportunity for the young developers to have a hands-on experience with the platform in order to be inspired to start developing webinos-enabled apps and to brainstorm together with members of the webinos team for potential entries in the next App Challenge.

webinos @ ecescon 6 Location: Novotel Athenes, Greece

Dates: 26,27,28 April 2013

Presenters: Christos Botsikas, Christos Ntanos

Learn how webinos as an open source platform connects your devices securely and allows Web-technologies based applications to run and use services and resources across different domains such as mobile, desktop, home media, in-car infotainment and Internet of Things (IoT).

Bring your development laptop and optionally an android device and get involved in the practical setup and coding session. You have already an idea for a multi-screen application? Excellent! Develop your first webinos application with immediate support and share your feelings with us. Get a glimpse of the Webinos repository at github.

Requirements: Laptop (Linux, Mac, Windows) with disk space to load and install additional software, basic Web development skills (HTML, CSS and JavaScript).

Trainer: Martin Lasak studied computer engineering at the Technische Universität Berlin. He graduated with the completion of his thesis on Privacy and Integrity Preservation in Client-Side Web Mashups in the field of Open Communication Systems. Employed as research associate at the Competence Center Future Applications and Media (FAME) of Fraunhofer FOKUS, Martin mainly focuses his research activities on multi-device architectures and Web security. He has been involved in national and international industry and research projects covering cross-platform computing and distributed applications.

Venue: Many thanks to the Estonian Information Technology College for the awesome venue. For those who don’t know them yet – IT College is the leading IT institution of applied higher education in Estonia. What makes the IT College special is its academic staff that are all professionals in the field – a third of all of the lecturers come from IT firms and companies or state IT departments. And obviously the fact that Yep is formed by graduates of IT College.

Register here, only 30 spots available.

Next to re:publica and Heureka the brandnew format „Codemotion Berlin“ was another main-hightlight of the Berlin Web Week Festival 2013. webinos was proud to organize a code workshop in conjunction with Fraunhofer FOKUS. In a hands-on, practical workshop participants learned how interoperability with other device types and platforms can be fostered and how multiscreen application development can be eased.

Codemotion was an innovative tech event engaging developers of all languages and technologies in presentations and conversations about: Mobile, Web, Makers, Startup Ideas, Trends, Sustainability, Game Dev and Creative Coding. Codemotion was a 3 day event with one day dedicated to workshops and two days of Conference.

webinos will organize a developer workshop at the codemotion event (www.codemotionberlin.com) in Berlin, 09-11 May 2013.

Codemotion is an innovative tech event engaging developers of all languages and technologies in presentations & conversations about: mobile, web, makers, startup ideas, sustainability, game development and creative coding. Codemotion brings together the largest number of attendees, companies and communities. In 2013, Codemotion will be arriving in Berlin. The agenda is a full immersion of technical talks created with the help of all developer communities, including a public call of papers.

webinos has the pleasure to invite particpants for a hands-on practical workshop in the Fraunhofer webinos Lab with trainers from the webinos developer team. The workshop will be held at Codemotion Berlin on Saturday 11 May 2013, 2pm-4pm. See below for further information regarding registration, location, time and requirements.

Trainers: Alexander Futasz, Shanshan Yang, Robert Kleinfeld

Agenda

This workshop offers an insight in the development of multiscreen applications with the webinos project. webinos is an open source platform that connects user’s devices securely and allows Web-based applications to run and use services and resources across different domains such as mobile, desktop, home media, in-car infotainment and Internet of Things (IoT). In a hands-on, practical workshop participants will learn how interoperability with other device types and platforms can be fostered and how multiscreen application development can be eased.

1. Introduction

The first part of the workshop will consists of a brief introduction to the webinos project, as well as the demonstration of multiscreen applications that are developed with webinos APIs.

2. Installation

The next part involves installing and running the webinos open source platform.

3. webinos App Development

The main part of the workshop deals with developing webinos applications based on webinos APIs such as Widget API, Discovery API, Messaging API and Device Orientation API. Application development can sound like a daunting task. Fortunately, creating a webinos application is surprisingly simple. Therefore we will start with a simple “hello world” application. On this basis we will learn how much more sophisticated webinos applications can be through use of webinos APIs, as defined in the API specifications.

4. Multiscreen Applications

As a highlight we will create a simple multiscreen application live during the workshop, demonstrating that developing multiscreen applications does not require a complete rethinking of traditional development workflows. Afterwards, we will briefly look at how developers can benefit from the webinos open source platform targeted on multiscreen applications.

Trainers

Alexander Futász

Alexander Futász studied Computer Science at the Berlin Institute of Technology, where he recently finished his studies and is now waiting for his degree. He is senior research engineer and project manager at the Competence Center Future Applications and Media FAME at Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS in Berlin. Alexander Futász has been and is involved in multiple international and national projects (webinos, MWR, BIONETS) within the area of: Social Media Computing, Cloud-based Services and Next Generation Web Platforms for Multiscreen Applications.

Shanshan Yang

Shanshan Yang studied Computer Science at the University of Freiburg. She received her master degree in Computer Science in 2010. She is senior research engineer at the Competence Center Future Applications and Media FAME at Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS in Berlin. She integrated different approaches from different domains like Knowledge management, Integrated circuit design and Software testing. Shanshan Yang involved in multiple international and national projects (webinos, MyRehab).  Her ongoing research activities focus on Cloud-based Services and Next Generation Web Platforms for Multiscreen Applications.

Robert Kleinfeld

Robert Kleinfeld studied Computer Science at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences. He received his M.Sc. in Computer Science in 2007. He is senior research engineer and project manager at the Competence Center Future Applications and Media FAME at Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS in Berlin. Robert Kleinfeld was local chair of the 10th European Interactive TV Conference – EuroITV 2012 in Berlin (hosted by Fraunhofer FOKUS). Robert Kleinfeld is involved in multiple international and national projects (PADGETS, webinos, OPENi and COMPOSE) within the area of: Social Media Computing, Cloud-based Services and Next Generation Web Platforms for Multiscreen Applications

Information

Participant Requirements

• Mac Intel, Windows or Linux Computer capable of launching VirtualBox images. Ensure that you have the latest version of VirtualBox installed on your machine (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads)
• Smartphone with Android, minimum 4.1
• Ability and disk space to download and install additional software

Participant Recommendations

All you will need to know is a basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. This not a hard requirement, but will help in really understanding what is going on, rather than just copying the code into your project.

Registration

Codemotion Berlin Sign Up

When

Saturday 11 May 2013

Where

Codemotion will take place at the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW), University of Applied Sciences in Building G & FKI.

Wilhelminenhofstraße 75A
12459 Berlin
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How to reach HTW with Public Transport

Venue: Fraunhofer webinos Lab

Time

2pm-4pm

Language

The workshop will be in English

Workshop Duration

2 Hours

Contact

For further information please contact Robert Kleinfeld: robert.kleinfeld@fokus.fraunhofer.de

The talk and exhibition shows how webinos realized advanced cross-screen media applications using technologies such as mobile web, device to device communication and resource access. Following exhibit will be presented: webinosTV – multiscreen media switchboard.

In the exhibition area, you will find us at Fraunhofer FOKUS booth directly right of the entrance to the conference hall. Implementations and demos are shown across all screens and covering Android, Windows, OSX and Linux.

webinos at TK Europa Location: Van der Valk Airporthotel Düsseldorf (Germany)

Dates: April 16-17, 2013

Booth: Exhibition area, Fraunhofer FOKUS booth, entrance to the conference hall

Please schedule a meeting with us at the booth: robert.kleinfeld@fokus.fraunhofer.de

Martin Lasak, Competence Center Future Applications and Media (FAME), Fraunhofer FOKUS presented webinos – the open web platform for multi-screen applications – at droidcon 2013, 07-10 April, Berlin. His talk outlined fundamental challenges in multi-screen application development for both providers and developers. Given these challenges, the webinos concept for the Android platform shows how interoperability with other device types and platforms can be fostered and how multi-screen application development can be eased.

Droidcon conference is all about Android, meeting the Android community, learning about the latest develops and giving developers a stage to talk about their apps and solutions or just discuss a problem they are facing.

webinos presentation at droidcon Berlin 2013 is accessible via slideshare: http://de.droidcon.com/2013/sessnio/webinos-open-web-platform-multi-screen-applications

The names of the finalists are:

1st place Lorenzo Cafforio – webinos-beats (webinos enabled drum machine)

2nd place Vassilis Milonakis – A Webinos Enabled Collaborative Projector

3rd place Spyros Vris – Spocked! (scissors, rock, paper game)

4th place Istvan Koren – Maps Projector

5th place George Tsimpis – Chat Machine

Thanks to everyone for their effort in putting this together and stay tuned for more details about the awards event and app videos.

A deliverable of the webinos project, this edition of the document highlights changes since November 2012, including the advancement of HTML5 to Candidate Recommendation. This edition integrates and highlights technologies identified in the Core Mobile Web Platform 2012, a report published by the Core Mobile Web Community Group. In addition, key topics now link to related materials on WebPlatform Docs or in a W3DevCampus on-line training course.

The report covers key standards track events as well as upcoming work. Specifically, the features that these technologies add to the Web platform are organized under the following categories: graphics, multimedia, device adaptation, forms, user interactions, data storage, personal information management, sensors and hardware integration, network, communication and discovery, packaging, performance & optimization.

What does this mean Part 1? – New Devices TVs and Cars

It means, that Firefox OS can now be easily augmented  with the 32  cross device APIs defined in webinos It means that the  Firefox platform instantly becomes of interested to TV  and Automotive manufactures, as the webinos TV and Vehicle API unlock the potential on those platforms. The fact that Firefox OS is based on Android and supports Pandaboard means reference  implementations can be rapidly ported and tested on devices since webinos already supports both platforms. It means that the existing webinos TV and Car application demonstrators will work seasily on the Firefox platforms . A Firefox OS powered TV comes one step closer.

What does it mean Part 2? – Device interworking

It means that Firefox OS gets “gadget interoperability”. The cloud and peer to peer communication stacks that are part of webinos are made available to Firefox OS developers. Applications can either consume remote services (discover and make user of services on other devices). or use the local exposed ones. In practice this means that a Firefox OS phone (with webinos enhancements) can make user of webinos enabled TVSs, and/or it means a TV powered by Firefox OS can be remote controlled by a webinos phone.

What does it mean Part 3? – Open Web Platform – same app on ChromeOS and FirefoxOS and ….

Finally, it means that we are one step closer to a Open Web Platform for Applications. ChomeOS and Firefox OS are similar in spirit, but different in detail. The packaging is different, the policy schemes are different, and the APIs are different. Wouldn’t it be nice if your “packaged” web application could run seamlessly on  both platforms (not to mention the rest “native” platforms).

With the webinos enchantments you can. Because of the webinos unique architecture, which loosely couples packaging, policy and API extensions from the browser, it is possible to transparently extend Chrome and Firefox OSs running the same applications in those two web based operating systems. Isn’t this not the vision of a converged web based application platform?

So how hard was it ?

Actually, very easy! The core port took a little over a day. There are two reasons for this:

1)       Our decision to use node.js as the core engine, has proved again and again to be an excellent choice. The initial investment is paying dividends. Each subsequent port, Chrome OS, Raspberry Pi, Firefox OS is becoming easier and easier.

2)      For those that don’t know: when you scratch the surface of Firefox OS, you will find Android. Ok, the top level of the stack is different, but for fully native components (like webinos) the port is trivial. You even use the standard Android build tools !!

We have written previously about the relationship between webinos, Firefox OS, Chrome OS and Tizen. They look similar on the surface, but are very different beasts. The webinos cross device and application stack is designed to be a multi-platform convergence and communications OS. It is not a competitor to them but it is entirely compatible with all these solutions. We hope this additional step in the platform delivery, convinces more people of the reality of these statements