Wave in a Box

Posted by Richard Thomas on 7 September 2010 | 2 Comments

Tags: wave, google, collaboration, open source

Google pulled the plug on Wave a few weeks ago. This is an unfortunate development for us as we found Wave to be quite useful. We have used it to successfully collaborate on a couple of projects as our designer lives a few hundred kilometres away from where we are. The ability to login at any time and view documents, graphics and other work; catch up on the dialogue and add to it was very useful.

The real time aspect of it was also beneficial. Having all the tools in one place worked very well for us. However, all is not lost. Google have already released a substantial portion of the Wave code as Open Source. They have stated they will "flesh it out" to a more complete application which they have dubbed Wave in a Box.

This will be a server and client with some but not all of the functionality of the original Wave. Google anticipates it being more fully developed by other parties. I'm looking forward to it being released and intend to install it on one of our servers. While it may not be as functional as the original Wave in the early days/weeks/months of its release, I am sure that there are plenty of developers who will enhance it.

Naturally I will post updates of the progress on this blog.