What is OpenAjax? 

OpenAjax represents the collection of technologies and approaches defined by the OpenAjax Alliance to promote open and interoperable Ajax-based Web technologies that in turn lead to long-term customer success with Ajax.

How OpenAjax Alliance is organized : 

1. 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. 

2. Working Groups --

The OpenAjax Alliance develops its Specifications and other published Material within Working Groups that are chartered and approved by its membership and Steering Committee. At this point, the alliance has the following Working Groups: 
Interoperability Working Group - This group is responsible for technical activities in the general area of Ajax runtime interoperability. The key products coming out of this group include documents that provide the detailed definition of OpenAjax Conformance, such as the Specification for the OpenAjax Hub, management of the OpenAjax Registry, and development of OpenAjax Best Practices. 

Marketing Working Group -

This group is responsible for the OpenAjax Alliance's communications, educational and promotional activities for fulfilling the Alliance's mission to accelerate customer success with Ajax, promote adoption of open and interoperable Ajax-based Web technologies, and help drive the future of the Ajax ecosystem. Among other things, this 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. 

IDE Working Group -

This group is developing metadata standards for Ajax libraries in order to facilitate the integration of Ajax libraries into Ajax developer tools (i.e., IDEs). 

Task Forces 

The OpenAjax Alliance establishes task forces to investigate possible areas of new activity. The task forces are informal groups of interested members who perform relevant research and then produce recommendations for future alliance activities. Sometimes task forces are promoted into formally chartered working groups.

At this time, there are six active task forces: 

Security Task Force, which is identifying key Ajax security issues and investigating related activities that the alliance might pursue ,

Mobile Ajax Task Force, which is investigating what OpenAjax Alliance might do to accelerate customer adoption and success with Ajax on mobile devices 

Production Ajax Management Task Force, which is investigating what OpenAjax Alliance might do to help vendors and customers in the area of runtime performance monitoring

Searchability Task Force, which will investigate how to make current application state within an Ajax application discoverable and usable to search engines, perhaps by standardizing on particular approaches to URL fragment identifiers or parameters.

Runtime Advocacy / Lobbying Task Force, which will attempt to recruit a critical mass of Ajax toolkits and investigate ways that OpenAjax Alliance might be able to play an advocacy role to accelerate browser improvements that make Ajax applications work better.

Mashup Widgets/Gadgets Task Force, which will investigate a common metadata standard for Ajax-based mashup components such that (ultimately) the developers of the mashup components will be able to write-once and have it run anywhere.