Towards communities of practice for mashups

Many integration projects in enterprises are too small to warrant their own implementation by IT. This leaves a "long tail of enterprise integration" unaccounted for. To exploit this potential, this position paper proposes a Community of Practice for end user development whose members will be able to solve their integration needs on their own. In particular, we want to combine a spreadsheet-oriented, browser-based mashup tool with a social network site designed as a company-internal collaboration platform. This should permit many small local integration projects to be performed by end users. Employee needs that were too expensive to consider before would then be satisfiable.