The Best Developer Conference
Of course I may be biased, but our first Community Server Developer's Conference was a huge success! Folks from around the world (at *least* four continents) came out to Texas (on a weekend) to hear more about where we are at and where we are headed. If you missed it, our own Kevin Harder live-blogged the entire event.
I had the opportunity to give two talks at the conference. The first was about Community Server 2008 and how we'll be expanding the platform. During this brief presentation, I also ran thru our new Groups functionality and improved Permissions work. The second talk was about Shared Membership (aka Morpheus). Here I was able to demo how easy it is to bring two separate CS installs under the same membership system. The feedback from both talks was positive and I look forward to hearing from attendees about what can be improved.
The other presenters (Ben, Wyatt, Dan, Scott, Kevin, Nicole, Jason, and Rob) all had great presentations as well. We were able to show off a bit of Graffiti, Enterprise Reporting, Web Services, Chameleon, Extensibility, and had time for lots of questions, tips and tricks. We also discussed our new Partner Program. In addition to the presentations, we had a good time just meeting our customers/partners face-to-face over food, drinks, and games. If you missed it this time, be sure to be on the lookout for our next event as it promises to be even better.
Since we taped all the sessions, you can expect us to post the videos, slides, and demos in the coming weeks. (Just give us some time to get it all together). At that point I'll be sure to post the location of all this great content.