Massachusetts Institute of Technology is going to open source its Mobile Web Project early next year. Mobile Web Project is a project which provides up-to-date university information for its faculty, students and visitors over mobile devices.
The MIT mobile site offers a staff and student directory, a campus map, the shuttle schedule, an event calendar, class announcements for students, emergency information, and status updates for many of MIT’s tech services.
Obviously this is a good news for open source community . It is like a shot in the arm.
According to Andrew Yu (Mobile Devices Platform Project Manager) at MIT IS&T, the technology behind the project includes WURFL and Python, XHTML and CSS, PHP, MySQL, SOAP and RSS.
If you’re interested in finding out more, take a look at these two presentations:
For more infromation regarding this you can see these two documents.
MIT’s Vision for Mobility[PDF]
Developing the MIT Mobile Web[PDF]
and you can also visit ReadWriteWeb .
