GateIn, the open source portal framework developed by eXo and Red Hat, provides a foundation for developers to build and deploy portal-based applications. By adding Web Content Management (WCM) functionality and gadgets, these applications can be extended to allow end users to create and publish their own content, without having to know the inner workings of the portal infrastructure.

Developers can easily gain these capabilities with eXo WCM, which is tuned and optimized for the GateIn portal framework. Together, eXo WCM and GateIn can be used as a platform for integrating applications as well as managing and publishing content – all from a single, familiar console.

Join Benjamin Paillereau, product manager of eXo WCM, as he demonstrates how to get native WCM features inside GateIn. Sample use case scenarios and a live demo will also be provided.

Through the presentation and demo, attendees will learn:

• How to set up a workflow process for getting content created, edited, approved and published
• How to customize this workflow for the unique needs of the content author, the publisher and the site visitor
• How to create a simple portlet to take advantage of extended publication features
• How to extend the publication process with UIExtension Framework
• How to use REST services to add authoring to a personal dashboard

Live eXo Webinar, Wednesday 7 July, 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm GMT, register you seat now!

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San Francisco, Calif. (June 15, 2010) – eXo (http://exoplatform.com) today released eXo Web Content Management (WCM) 2.0. Bundled with GateIn 3.0 and Tomcat 6.0 to run out of the box, eXo WCM is now available as a free download under the open source Affero Gnu Public License (AGPL). Commercial support for eXo WCM will be available as part of eXo Platform 3.0, expected later this year.

Why Use eXo WCM

Like all eXo services, such as eXo Social (announced just last month), eXo WCM is designed for IT organizations that want to be able to integrate web content with their existing enterprise Java systems. eXo WCM comes with tools and extensions already familiar to Java programmers, so they can starting developing from day one.

On its own, eXo WCM provides all the modern Web 2.0 capabilities needed to create, publish and manage web content. It runs with GateIn, the advanced new portal framework created by eXo and Red Hat, so users now have content management inside a portal. Users can integrate  applications in the portal and manage all the content from the same user interface.

With eXo WCM as a core piece of the eXo Platform, Java enterprises have a comprehensive user experience platform for integrating intranet, Web and transactional applications – similar to what SharePoint provides for .NET.

Highlights of eXo WCM

Visit the eXo site for a full list of eXo WCM features. Highlights include:

• Scalable Content: eXo WCM is based on eXo JCR,  an open source implementation of the Java Content Repository specification. This implementation has been in production for several years within large productions environments with tens of thousands of users and millions of documents.

• Ease of Use: eXo WCM makes it easy to create, approve and deploy content as part of an overall Java web application. Search, Favorites, Tagging, Voting, Cover Flows, Timelines, Versioning and Locking are all easily enabled for content users.

• Customizability: eXo WCM can be customized to suit project needs. Users can change the content repository structure and use their own metadata, for example; choose from different content templates, or create new ones; and create specific views based on roles.

• Extensibility: eXo WCM comes with ready extensions for adding document management and workflow. This package also includes a preview of a new authoring publication extension for more contextual and dynamic content life cycles. Users can create their own plugins and extensions to make eXo WCM work for them.

• Flexibility: With eXo WCM, users can slice and dice their content in several ways and publish in multiple places with different workflows. Even if stored in just one repository, content can be classified in different hierarchies, tagged for public or private view and “favorited” so it can be quickly accessed from an individual’s private drive.

Supporting Quotes

Benjamin Mestrallet, founder and CEO of eXo: “With eXo WCM, Java enterprises have a complete portal and content management system in a single software package — eliminating the need to cobble together solutions from different vendors. Anyone can start using eXo WCM on its own today. But for those enterprises looking for an elegant, integrated way to modernize their Java applications, eXo WCM is a hint of what’s to come with the eXo Platform.”

Getting Started

• Getting started with eXo WCM video
• Demo video: Authoring extension and REST services
• Screenshots: file explorer and example homepage

Availability and Support

• Download today
• Commercial Production Support: eXo WCM 2.0 will be supported in the forthcoming eXo Platform 3.0, planned for later in 2010
• Early Adopter Program includes one-year developer subscriptions and early access to other eXo offerings

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Position Summary:

The Role:

eXo is seeking an inside sales professional to sell eXo’s portfolio of open source solutions and services, sell the value of eXo technologies and make sales over the phone in response to inbound inquiries to eXo. The work location will be eXo’s office in, San Francisco, California.

The Inside Sales Associate is responsible for responding to in-bound inquiries and sell eXo’s comprehensive offerings. Will nurture and close opportunities with both new and existing customers, manage forecasts on a monthly basis and track customer data. Will also work cooperatively with internal and external partners to improve the velocity of business and to create solutions that serve the best interests of both the customers and eXo. Internal sales training will be offered to maintain the highest knowledge and proficiency in eXo offerings and industry trends.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Be a part of a dynamic, fast paced and growing organization where everyone makes an impact
• Represent company to customer and customer to company in sales-related matters
• Understand customer’s business and technology product requirements
• Sell eXo’s comprehensive solutions
• Manage forecasts, close deals, and track customer data using company standard CRM tools
• Be accountable for growing existing business relationships and acquiring new business
• Take responsibility for meeting assigned sales quota

Required Skills & Experience:

• A bachelors degree’ preferably in business administration, marketing or a technical discipline
• 4+ years of successful quota-carrying sales experience
• 4+ years of solution sales experience in high-tech products and/or services
• Experience leveraging CRM tools such as SalesForce.com
• Software sales experience desired
• Unix or Linux experience preferred
• Knowledge of UNIX, Linux, Windows and Application Server marketplaces

If you are ready for new challenges, send us your CV and cover letter here: Contact Us

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Position Summary:

The Role:

eXo is seeking an inside sales professional to sell eXo’s portfolio of open source solutions and services, sell the value of eXo technologies and make sales over the phone in response to inbound inquiries to eXo. The work location will be eXo’s office in, San Francisco, California.

The Inside Sales Associate is responsible for responding to in-bound inquiries and sell eXo’s comprehensive offerings. Will nurture and close opportunities with both new and existing customers, manage forecasts on a monthly basis and track customer data. Will also work cooperatively with internal and external partners to improve the velocity of business and to create solutions that serve the best interests of both the customers and eXo. Internal sales training will be offered to maintain the highest knowledge and proficiency in eXo offerings and industry trends.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Be a part of a dynamic, fast paced and growing organization where everyone makes an impact
• Represent company to customer and customer to company in sales-related matters
• Understand customer’s business and technology product requirements
• Sell eXo’s comprehensive solutions
• Manage forecasts, close deals, and track customer data using company standard CRM tools
• Be accountable for growing existing business relationships and acquiring new business
• Take responsibility for meeting assigned sales quota

Required Skills & Experience:

• A bachelors degree’ preferably in business administration, marketing or a technical discipline
• 4+ years of successful quota-carrying sales experience
• 4+ years of solution sales experience in high-tech products and/or services
• Experience leveraging CRM tools such as SalesForce.com
• Software sales experience desired
• Unix or Linux experience preferred
• Knowledge of UNIX, Linux, Windows and Application Server marketplaces

If you are ready for new challenges, send us your CV and cover letter here: contact@exoplatform.com

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• Consultant ECM / WCM – FRANCE
• Expert JEE / Portail – FRANCE

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In the US:

From France and Europe:

The original press release can be read here: “eXo Accelerates U.S. Operations with $6 Million Series A Financing”.

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San Francisco, Calif. (Mar. 8, 2010) – eXo, provider of Java middleware for cloud services, today announced an infusion of $6 million in venture capital financing from Auriga Partners and XAnge Capital. With the new funds, eXo accelerates its U.S. operations, including ramping up marketing and sales.

In addition, eXo has created a new Board of Directors, naming Bob Bickel as Chairman. Bickel is a 25-year software industry veteran with experience building profitable, high growth enterprise software companies, including Bluestone Software (acquired by HP) and JBoss (acquired by Red Hat). He also served on the board and as an advisor to Hyperic and SpringSource respectively before their acquisition by VMware. Philippe Granger, partner at Auriga Partners, and Nicolas Rose, partner at XAnge Capital, will also be joining the new board on behalf of eXo’s new investors.

“At eXo, we see a huge opportunity to bring higher level services that can extend installed enterprise Java applications with consumer web features such as collaboration, social and content management,” said Benjamin Mestrallet, founder and CEO of eXo. “We now have the capital and collective business guidance of our new board to execute on this opportunity and take eXo to the next stage of growth.”

With an existing footprint in French-speaking markets, eXo opened its first U.S. office last October following a partnership with Red Hat. The new financing will help fuel sales and marketing in North America, including a strong emphasis on forging partnerships with OEMs, ISVs, SIs, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers that want to enhance their offerings with eXo’s out-of-the-box services for Collaboration, Content Management and Social Computing.

Bickel commented: “Benjamin and his team have done a great job of getting eXo to this unique position in the market where it can be the unifying, modernizing framework and user experience platform that Java needs to remain relevant in today’s web-driven world. I look forward to working with the eXo team to enhance this position in the months and years ahead.”

Auriga Partners is an independent venture capital firm based on Paris with more than 180 million euros under management. The firm provides seed or early stage investment in information technologies and life sciences in Europe, North America and Israel.

Founded by the French public postal operator Group La Poste, XAnge Capital invests primarily in businesses whose activities are related to La Poste’s core businesses and present potential for synergies and partnerships (e.g., electronic exchanges and e-commerce, transaction security, CRM and direct marketing, document intelligence and logistics).

About eXo

eXo offers the next generation of Java middleware designed for the new era of cloud-based services. The eXo Platform makes Java websites and applications faster to build and easier to deploy, and offers modern features such as content, collaboration, social and knowledge on a services-based architecture. The company has established technology leadership and proven value by their large European installed base and strategic partnerships with Red Hat, Capgemini, Atos Origin and Bull. eXo maintains U.S. headquarters in San Francisco, Calif. with global headquarters in France and offices in Tunisia, Ukraine and Vietnam. For news and updates from eXo, follow @exoplatform on Twitter.

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This release includes CMIS server with all the services implemented according to Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Version 1.0 Committee Draft 06 for REST AtomPub and Web Services (SOAP/WSDL) protocol bindings. The project is hosted on the Google Code forge, check it out on http://code.google.com/p/xcmis/.  I wanted to take a few minutes to answer some of the most common questions from developers about the new xCMIS project.

What is the xCMIS project, and what does it do?

• xCMIS is an open source, server side Java CMIS implementation that is able to expose the content in existing content repositories according to the protocols defined in the CMIS spec
• xCMIS will give developers a way to make their content repositories “pluggable” on the server side – thanks to an internal Storage Provider Interface and additional protocol on-demand bindings
• xCMIS will provide (several) CMIS client frameworks for repository-application and repository-repository interactions. The programming language and supported protocol can be selected by the user.  (For example, the reasonable choice for use with web applications, gadgets, and/or mashups is JavaScript or GWT over REST AtomPub, while for inter-repository exchange it may be Java over Web Services, i.e. WSDL/SOAP.)
• Both the server and client sides of xCMIS are easily integrated in the eXo Platform 3.0 infrastructure. In particular, xCMIS exposes the eXo JCR content repository and provides a framework for building web applications and gadgets for the GateIn portal

Enough talk already!  How do I download and start to play with xCMIS on my local workstation?

The xCMIS server is packaged as a J2EE Web archive xcmis.war, which you can download and install on any Java servlet container.  Or, you can build it on your own from the source code by following these simple instructions.  Finally, the easiest option might be to use the “download and go” version that we prepared – it’s basically Apache Tomcat bundled with an xCMIS server on /xcmis context path.

By default the xCMIS server includes both REST AtomPub and Web Services (SOAP/WSDL) protocol bindings.

• A Web Services (SOAP/WSDL) entry point can be accessed on http://localhost:8080/xcmis/cmisws.
• REST AtomPub is accessible on http://localhost:8080/xcmis/rest/cmisatom – this is the URL of RepositoryService’s getRepository method. For more info about the CMIS services and methods in WADL format that are accessible via AtomPub protocol, go to http://localhost:8080/xcmis/wadl.html.
• If you really wanted to get “under the hood”, you can explore the capabilities of xCMIS using curl or Poster FireFox add-on, or just try using the information from a WADL file.

The xCMIS bundle includes one CMIS repository with an empty eXo JCR and JCR WebDAV server inside.  The name of the JCR repository is “repository” and the name of JCR workspace is “cmis”. So, it is possible to obtain access to the same content using WebDAV URL

http://localhost:8080/xcmis/rest/jcr/repository/cmis/

If you want to save time, you can download the xCMIS server with a full-featured CMIS GWT UI gadget inside (loaded remotely from xcmis.org site). It can be run the same way as a bare server; then you can go to http://localhost:8080/xcmis/xcmis-demo-gadget/GadgetWrapper.html to check out the CMIS visually.  It should look like this:

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eXo Platform is glad to invite you to its first online Webcast to introduce the eXo Enterprise Content Management Suite.

During this online seminar, Tugdual Grall, VP of Business & Product Strategy at eXo Platform will present you:

- How the eXo ECM Suite allows you to manage any type of content (Web or Documents) from a powerful and open enterprise Portal ;

- How you can easily manage documents in your enterprise using shared drives, versionning, permissions, search, and other useful tools provided by eXo Document Management System ;

- how you can easily build mutlitple web sites from one place using the powerful eXo Web Content Management module allowing you to integrate any type of content and application

The presentation will be delivered in English by Tugdual Grall. Register here or contact us for any information regarding the Webcast or anything else.

Best Regards,

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Stay tuned for more on twitter: @eXoPlatform

eXo Knowledge Suite Extension for GateIn from Patrice Lamarque on Vimeo.

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With the signing of this agreement, eXo Platform and BonitaSoft strengthen their technological collaboration. BonitaSoft’s business process management solution will be integrated into eXo DMS’s document management module.

Based on Bonita, BonitaSoft’s open source BPM software, the new version of eXo DMS incorporates advanced features for document collaboration and validation. The addition of Bonita’s BPM capabilities provides eXo Platform customers a powerful and intuitive solution for automating their records management.

The result of four years of successful technical collaboration, the eXo DMS version integrating Bonita was made available to the open source community in 2009. Through this enhanced partnership, eXo Platform and BonitaSoft now offer their customers dedicated support and services for this integrated solution.

“We see a demand for more and more BPM features from the open source community and from our customers. The incorporation of Bonita in our product range allows us to automate and standardize an approach that was previously customized for each project,” said Benjamin Mestrallet, CEO of eXo Platform. “Also, through the certification of several eXo Platform modules on the GateIn platform, users are able to extend their portal capabilities with BonitaSoft’s BPM”, said Benjamin.

“We’ve found in eXo Platform a level of expertise in collaborative applications that is capable of addressing the problems of managing the most highly advanced document processes. This partnership really helps to give our customers a head start in mastering their document processes,” said Miguel Valdes Faura, CEO of BonitaSoft.

About BonitaSoft:

Created in 2009 by Miguel Valdes, Rodrigue Le Gall and Charles Souillard, BonitaSoft is the first provider of open source business process management (BPM) software. The Bonita solution has been downloaded more than 150 000 times to date by companies and organizations worldwide. BonitaSoft will democratize the use of BPM in companies of all sizes with an intuitive and powerful solution with an optimum cost. BonitaSoft is a partner of Talend and Bull and is an active member of the OW2 consortium.

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The conference room was full and it proved an increasing interest for Open Source Portals as decision makers are more and more looking for alternatives to proprietary software.

In the first part of the conference, Bertrand Pinel, Technical Manager at Ippon, explained some technological aspects of the enterprise Portals to make J2EE portals compliant with each other, as the JSR 168 and 286 for the portlet specifications and the JSR 170 for the Java Content Repository.

Then, Ippon Technologies presented its expertise on the eXo stack through the work done for one of its customers: Globecast, which is a subsidiary of France Telecom. Attendees have been able to understand how these tools contributed to improve the time needed to display new information and features to the users and how the portal are integrated to Information Systems already running in the companies.

Through these customer feedbacks, some interesting findings came up:

• Open Source portals are gaining interests and companies are more and more choosing the open source way instead of heavy and locked solutions (like Oracle, IBM and SharePoint);
• Nowadays, the tools are mature enough in terms of features and interfaces to produce real websites with modern designs;
• Some big companies are using the eXo Community edition for critical missions;
• Most clients are using Tomcat as a server for their portal;

Nicolas Martignole, a well known IT expert, author of the blog “Le Touilleur Express“, attended the event and came back with some interesting comments. Here is an extract of his point of view:

“From what I heard, eXo Platform have real products, with Product Managers, like Patrice Lamarque, eXo CS and KS PM. This is interesting because this product-oriented approach is more opened. Where LifeRay is the Office suite, eXo seems to provide different layers that correspond to your needs.”

“And finally, isn’t the eXo modules oriented approach more interesting that the all-or-nothing approach of LifeRay? I write on my notebook… Modules=flexibility=eXo.”

“I then attended the presentation of an Intranet project built with eXo Portal and eXo WCM for Globecast, subsidiary of France Telecom and customer of Ippon Technologies. The Intranet “websites factory” is a content oriented project that aims to ease the communication inside the company and between the different departments. The portal also provides the ability to mash up contents, enables all the teams to work together and to build contents.”

“We also had the opportunity to discuss with Patrice Lamarque, Product Manager at eXo. The new engine version is called GateIn and comes from the partnership between eXo and JBoss. It is a promising product and I think we will have a brand new Portal generation in few months.”

More resources:

• Conference slides (French)
• Ippon Technologies on its conference about Open Source Portals (French)
• Nicolas Martignole, from the blog “Le Touilleur Express”, about the conference (French)

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eXo founder and CEO Benjamin Mestrallet has relocated from France to run operations from the firm’s new San Francisco office. Mestrallet will have on hand a team of experienced advisors who have proven track records in managing growth, shaping strong leadership and building valuation for young companies. From the Board of Advisors:

• Bob Bickel, co-founder of Bluestone Software, former head of Hewlett-Packard Middleware and, most recently, head of strategy at JBoss and board advisor to Hyperic (acquired by SpringSource), JasperSoft and Funambol, among others;

“eXo has the proven technology, talent and market potential that I look for when considering which companies I’d like be involved with at a strategic level,” noted Bickel. “While enterprise companies have benefited from a wide range of open source options at the operating system and middleware level and with development tools, choices in applications and content services have been limited. This is the next significant opportunity for driving out costs in the enterprise. Given its pioneering history and its successes with large European customers, eXo is primed to lead this charge in North America. I look forward to working with Benjamin and his team to make this happen.”

• Edwin Khodabakchian, co-founder of Feedly.org, and former Oracle vice president of product development and CTO of eCommerce at AOL;

“Benjamin is a smart, dynamic leader who has built up a lean but global company the old fashioned way — with solid technology, hard work and a disciplined eye on the bottom line,” said Khodabakchian. “I believe eXo has a bright future ahead of it and I am honored to have a part in shaping this.”

• Sacha Labourey, most recently co-GM of Red Hat’s JBoss Middleware business and former CTO and European GM of JBoss, Inc.

Labourey, who participated in negotiations on the eXo/Red Hat partnership before stepping down as JBoss co-GM, commented: “eXo is proof that a strong focus on engineering excellence can result in superior products. In the last year, I have come to know firsthand what eXo brings to the market and am consistently impressed by the breadth of its vision and the team’s ability to execute.”

In 2002, eXo delivered the industry’s first Java portlet container, which set in motion a leveling of the playing field in the portal market. This also attracted the attention of the U.S. Department of Defense, who went on to help fund the development of the eXo Portal, which is now merged into the new JBoss GateIn portal project. eXo continues to sell a broad portfolio of open source collaborative software that has been developed through R&D investment from its customers, which rank among the largest enterprises and savviest government agencies in the world.

One of Mestrallet’s first stops in the U.S. will be at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Calif., where he will share some of the innovations eXo Platform is experimenting with in its labs. See the conference agenda at: http://www.e2conf.com/sanfrancisco/.

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From August 31st to September 2nd, eXo will attend the annual JBoss World as a new partner of JBoss. The JBoss World event is the perfect place to share about new technologies, best practices and industry trends with experts. It also will be a nice occasion for us to meet companies that need new and innovative solutions and to show our ability to develop custom solutions for specific needs.

After three months in collaboration with JBoss, it is time for eXo to unveil the next generation of portal as well. eXo and JBoss teams joined their efforts and worked hard to present a portal gathering the best of two successful open source solutions: eXo and JBoss Portals. This new portal will set a new standard of quality in the industry and will offer new capabilities to customers. During the JBoss World, eXo will preview this new Open Source portal as well as how eXo complete stack will run on top of it.

To see this preview, to meet us and share about your expectations, your industry insights, or to talk about our solutions and the industry in general, come and meet us at booth 223. More than building knowledge, you will also spend a nice time

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This event, will be the end of the “Spring US Trip” for the eXo team, and this is a good moment for us to present key messages around our product and business strategy. Stay tune, more news to come during the week.

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It was a great exchange. Unfortunately, not many people wanted to hack, so instead we discussed for more than 4 hours about the standard, how to write gadgets, and and to implement the server using Shindig. It was also a great time more meeting other companies, and i know some started to work together after this meeting.

If you want to find the resources used during head to the OpenSocial Hackathon website.

BTW, don’t forget the contest…

Thanks to google, Techlang, TeeVN, webPal and eXo employees for helping!!!

Next step: the second Barcamp in Hanoi.

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This release come with the first version of the support of the OpenSocial Standard.

eXo People brings Enterprise Social Networking to your work. It allows you to organize your workforce in an efficient way through a better understanding of your people skills. It implements the OpenSocial standard that simplifies the development of social applications and allows to reuse the enterprise social graph inside your organization by any other application.

eXo Spaces add communities to your work. It allows to easily regroup people by interests or projects. It leverage any existing application such as Portlets or Gadgets to enable a collaborative work.

More to come :

• Rewriting of the Profile storage to be shared with the Portal and CS
• Improve the compliance to openSocial
• Improve the UI of spaces
• More configurations options for the spaces

So go test it, and don’t hesitate to send us feedback.

Useful links:

• Download eXo Social Preview Release
• Documentation
• Release Notes

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We are organizing it to help developers to use this new standard and to prepare them to the openSocial gadget contest where there are many prizes to win. It will be also the occasion for Vietnamese social networks to discover this standard.
It will be a slightly different organization from the google devfest since we will give more time to hacking, less to talk.

•  10:30AM – 11:00AM : Registration
•  11:00AM – 12:00PM : openSocial Presentation
•  12:00PM – 1:00PM : brainstorming + pizza
•  1:00PM – 5:00PM : Coding your openSocial applications
•  1:00PM – 2:00PM : guided walkthrough a first openSocial gadget
•  5:00PM – 6:00PM : presentation of what have been done in the afternoon

We’ll provide space, power, and refreshments. You just need to bring your own laptop, javascript skills, ideas and enthusiasm to complete the mix. There is only 50 seats available, so register soon.
Also after having organized the first Barcamp in Hanoi in 2007, we are also working on the preparation of the Barcamp2 in Hanoi with Ninh. This one will be organized next year. Stay tuned…

Update: Vinny is organizing a Hackathon at the same time in Singapore in google office, and Pamela is organizing one in google’s office in Sydney. That will be fun to run them simultanously. I hope we will be able to exchange and work with the other events.

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As an example, I wrote a simple code sharing application based on appEngine during the Google DevFest. Basically you enter the code you want to share, and the application give you a URL to share it with your friends. To allow to access to this application, I wrote a simple gadget that allows to enter some code, send it to the service and share the URL with my contacts. To achieve this, I just wrote few lines of python deployed on appEngine to exchange information in JSON with my gadget and only javascript, css and html in my gadget.

• Code Sharer
• Code of the appengine code
• Code of the gadget

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The registrations are already closed, but you can register on the waiting list. If you cannot come, but still want to meet us, please drop me an email, we will be in each cities for 2 or 3 days.

We are very excited to participate in this tour. It will be the first presentation of eXo Social.

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