The OpenSocial Foundation cordially invites you to attend the annual State of the Union event on May 12, 2011, from 1:00pm to 5:00pm. This is your chance to learn first hand about the exciting new happenings taking place in the community. In addition to presentations from members of our community, there will be two additional opportunities for you to be directly involved, the pre - SOTU interop event, and the Happy Hour/Poster Session! Don't sit on the sidelines-get involved!!

As President of OpenSocial, I'm pleased to announce that the nominations for the Community Elected Board seat are now Open! The nomination period will run from December 6, 2010 through Jan 9, 2011, when voting will commence. Anyone OpenSocial member is able to serve on the board. The only requirement to nominate or hold the position is that you must be a member of the OpenSocial Foundation. There are no membership fees to join OpenSocial.

Myspace has always been committed to open standards and the open Internet. The Myspace Developer Platform team is taking the next logical step and will be open sourcing our internally developed Myspace OpenSocial Gadget container. Now there will be a high quality and highly scalable .Net implementation of an OpenSocial Gadget container available to the community.