Saxotech developer community
May 5, 2008 by wemediaguru
I’m at the first full day of the Saxotech user conference in Tampa and so far the talk has been good. I’m going to reserve full judgment until I see more, but the things I am hearing are OK.
Jeff Hoffman, Saxotech’s VP for client services, announced this morning the formation of a customer advisory board, an online user group and an online developer community.
Saxotech is committed to providing best practices teams, a framework, underlying architecture, contributing solutions and how-to videos.
The developer community is live. Here are some bullets points on the development site, as described by Erlend Viddal of Saxotech:
- An open source community within Saxotech
- A completely open environment with freely downloadable solutions
- A place where customers can contribute with own solutions
- Forums where customers can communicate with each other and Saxotech’s solutions group
A note from my Twitter feed: MatthewManuel Open Source within the proprietary client is no different than saying “With MS Word - you can write a story and share the text” about 1 hour ago from web
Viddal also provided some solutions currently on the development site. They include:
- AJAX based forums
- AJAX user management
- AJAX mini poll
- CCE wizard
- YouTube Solution
- My Favorites
- Marketplace
wemediaguru
“A note from my Twitter feed: MatthewManuel Open Source within the proprietary client is no different than saying “With MS Word - you can write a story and share the text” about 1 hour ago from web”
Almost there. I’d say it’s more like opening up MS Word with VBA, providing a set of code modules you can use immediately and a set of technical documents on how to get the most out of your newfound direct access to the core application. We’re tearing off the hood and exposing the engine for direct manipulation, allowing you to move much more quickly and stay on top of industry trends. While it’s not true open source, I’m sure we can all agree that it’s a step in the right direction.
We all look forward to your contributions to the developer community!
James Curran
Solutions Developer
community.saxotech.com
Thanks for the response James. I look forward to using the dev community and sharing as much as I can.
James
Yes, I would say the development community is a huge step and I look forward to contributing and using it as well.
Jason