companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Google, Adobe, and Sun, along with Ajax suppliers such as Dojo Foundation, Laszlo Systems, Nexaweb, Tibco and Zimbra, and a small number of individual members. In October 2012, the Open Ajax Alliance formally terminated its operations. Members The list of members of OpenAjax Alliance has been growing steadily. For the list of members, refer to the OpenAjax Alliance home page or the members wiki page. Among the members are organizations that fall into some of the following categories: Ajax toolkit developers (open source and commercial) Web browsers (desktop and mobile) Enterprise products companies Organizations that use Ajax to deliver solutions to their users Other community-oriented organizations, such as open source projects or standards organizations, that have a strong interest in Ajax How OpenAjax Alliance is organized Steering Committee The members of the OpenAjax Alliance elect representatives from seven companies to positions on the OpenAjax Alliance Steering Committee. The Steering Committee manages the affairs of the OpenAjax Alliance on behalf of its member organizations. Among other things, the Steering Committee has final approval on the creation of working groups and specifications. Working Groups The formal materials produced by OpenAjax Alliance are developed within Working Groups. The following two working groups have been formally chartered in accordance with process documents that the members have adopted. The Interoperability Working Group is responsible for technical activities in the area of Ajax interoperability, with a focus on client-side runtime issues. The key products coming out of this group will include the specifications that provide the detailed definition of OpenAjax Conformance, such as the specification for the OpenAjax Hub (versions 1.0 and 1.1) and management of the OpenAjax Registry. The Marketing Working Group is responsible for the OpenAjax Alliance's communications, educational and promotional activities, promote adoption of open and interoperable Ajax-based Web technologies. The group produces the alliance's white papers, oversees the development of its website, and drives the strategy, high-level definition and industry rollout of the term OpenAjax Conformance. The IDE Working Group develops metadata standards that are planned to enable arbitrary Ajax runtime libraries to integrate into arbitrary Ajax developer tools (i.e., IDEs - integrated development environments). The IDE Working Group's metadata standard, OpenAjax Metadata Specification, is also intended to provide an industry standard for mashup widgets. The metadata standard attempts to be an "intermediary" standard which is designed to align closely with popular proprietary formats so that it