I wanted to remind everyone that we have a Jivespace weekly group chat scheduled for tomorrow (and every Thursday) from 9-10am Pacific time. During this hour, you can ask any questions about Clearspace development topics to the engineers who wrote the software.

Do you have questions about

• how we are using Spring, Struts, Acegi, and more in Clearspace 2.0?

• a particularly difficult customization?

• writing plugins and widgets?

• accessing Clearspace data from other sites using web services?

• any other developer topic?

Please feel free to drop in anytime during the hour to ask questions. We also post all of the chat transcripts to Jivespace.

As many of you have already noticed our Jive Integrated support instance on jivesoftware.com/jive has joined the developer community on our Jive Community ClearspaceX instance at http://www.jivesoftware.com/community.  Through user feedback, we re-integrated the supportand developercommunities within a single site to improve your experience.  You should now have much less trouble deciding where to post--depending on whether the question is a developer related question or a support related question all on the same instance.  For users of our old instance, all information from our old site was migrated to this new location.

With this move not only comes a better user interface and integrated user community but also provides Jive Support with the ability to create periodic blog posts.  Jive Support Engineers will be blogging on best practices we use ourselves when troubleshooting or improving our products' environments.  Please let us know if 

there is anything in particular you want to know more about!

Thanks,

Kevin Williams

Jive Support Manager

OK, so it was a virtual move rather than a physical one.  Our original idea to put the main landing page of Jivespace at dev.jivesoftware.com with the Clearspace community portion at www.jivesoftware.com/community turned out to be less than optimal. The original architecture made testing a nightmare and made many things more difficult than they should have been.

Last night, we deployed the re-architected site and completed the move to http://www.jivesoftware.com/dev and http://www.jivesoftware.com/community.  We have redirects in place, so you shouldn't have any issues finding what you need, but you might want to update your bookmarks.

As with any upgrade, if you notice anything strange, please post it in the Jivespace Lounge, and I'll take care of any issues.

We already announced our Open Source Plugin Contest here in Jivespace, but we wanted to announce a few more Jivespace Launch promotions!

First plugin gets you a FREE 25 user license!

• You can enter the Open Source Plugin contest AND get a free 25 user license of Clearspace

• Send an email to developer-relations@jivesoftware.com to claim your free license

• Mention the 25 user license in the subject line and include a link to your plugin

Free t-shirt with every sign up!

• New members will receive a cool Jivespace t-shirt

• We will also be sending the t-shirts out to those of you who have been actively participating in the beta program

Best plugin, as voted by the community, wins an iPhone!

• Available only in countries where iPhones are sold

• A community poll will be conducted to determine the winner at the end of the plugin contest

• This is in addition to any prizes awarded by Jive Software for the plugin contest

All promotions end on October 25, 2007.

Welcome to the Jivespace Developer Community: the place for developers to learn about and collaborate on Jive products!

Here you will find documentation, developer kits, plugins, and much more. I encourage you to ask questions, discuss ways to approach development, best practices, tips / tricks and more with your fellow developers. We are also looking for feedback on ways to make the community even better! Feel free to post suggestions and ideas in the Jivespace Lounge discussion.

I'll also be hanging out in the community (that's just what we community managers do), so let me know if you run into any issues.