Jivespace Community Blog

Don't forget to attend the Jivespace weekly chat on Thursday!

dawn — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:09:21 GMT

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.

Don't Forget to Join the Group Chat on Thursday!

dawn — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:09:22 GMT

I just wanted to remind everyone to attend our Jivespace group chat on Thursday at 9am Pacific time. Several of the Clearspace core developers and support engineers will be online to answer your questions about Clearspace!

If you missed the last chat, you can find the transcript in Jivespace.

Support Community joins Developer Community on ClearspaceX!

kevin — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:40:30 GMT

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

How to Structure a Community

dawn — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:34:31 GMT

At a recent Portland Web Innovators meeting, I led a discussion about different ways to structure a community. This video contains a 20 minute discussion during this meeting where we talked about community structures ranging from emergent to highly structured to adaptive. I also blogged about this topic recently on Jive Talks

Or download the MPEG4 Video (~50MB)

Jivespace Has Moved!

dawn — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:40:36 GMT

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.

Art of Community

dawn — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:14:00 GMT

Danese Cooper and I put together a community panel at OSCON discussing the art of building and maintaining successful communities. The panel included (from left to right): Danese Cooper (Moderating), Jimmy Wales, Dawn Foster, Sulamita Garcia, Whurley, Karl Fogel, and Brian Behlendorf.

This video contains the entire session and runs about 50 minutes.

Or download the Quicktime version (caution: this is quite large and may take a long time).

Jivespace Launch Promotions: Free Licenses, T-shirts, and iPhones!!

dawn — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:52:00 GMT

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.

Josh Bancroft on Facebook, Social Networks, and More

dawn — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:43:00 GMT

I was able to corner Josh Bancroft, Intel Social Media Evangelist, at a recent blogger dinner at the Jive Software offices (co-sponsored by Intel, but organized by the Portland blogging community). In this video, Josh discusses Facebook, hype around social networks that do not exist, and living life online.

Or click here to download.

Welcome to the Jivespace Developer Community!

dawn — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:22:00 GMT

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.

Plugin Day at Jive Software

dawn — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:54:00 GMT

Occasionally at Jive Software, our developers take a day off from their regular jobs to spend the day writing plugins for our products. After taking Friday off to write plugins for our new Clearspace product, we gathered at 4PM to do a quick review of our creations. This is what happens when a room full of Jive Software employees geek out over cool collaboration technology.

Click here to watch the video