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 Do Ali/Kevin have a document some where that describes how they are working together/merging plans?
 I'll be working on this next week and will post a link to it...
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+Rob: Overall, I'm happy with the goals and strategies. I just have a few things I want to clarify and some bits to make everyone aware of that might prove useful.
+* Should another primary goal be to educate and evangelise the 'why' behind Open Web Apps?
+** This might be assumed in a larger goal but I want to make sure we focus on the reasons why this is happening as well as getting bums on seats in the Marketplace
+* It's worth pointing out that we have Mozilla-produced tools like Emscripten for converting native apps to JavaScript
+** Right now, this converts from C++ though there are other tools around that convert from C#
+** I'm not sure if anything exists to convert from Obj-C (iPhone) though
+* One strategy that we could explore is reaching out to tool developers so we can change things from the top-down
+** This is something that we're exploring with game engines and game-creation tools
+** I think it will be easier to get apps if developers don't need to change their process aside from adding a new target or re-exporting from their existing tool
+** I believe we'll have a battle on our hands if we try and convince all developers to take a manual approach to this, unless we do a very good job explaining the 'why' (they should care) and prove that the apps will work cross-platform (which they don't, atm – meaning devs will need to manually change things at some point in the future)
+I'm not exactly sure where to put all those but they're my general thoughts so far.