The Perforce Ecosystem Jeffrey Bates Director, Cloud & Ecosystem James Creasy Product Tech Research Manager

Where Did We Come From?

FROM MAILING LISTS TO FORUMS

Mailing List •  Up for a decade •  “Hands off” by employees •  Mostly used by admins

Forums •  Increased participation •  Internal experts can be “hands on” •  Searchable •  Persistent Data Storage

Where Are We Going?

USING SOCIAL MEDIA LESSONS

•  Integrating Social Media & Other Data Streams •  Recognition of Top Users: Who’s Here?

•  Expansion of Forums to Nurture Community •  Elements of the Ecosystem

APP JUNCTION

•  Building on Existing Tools •  Public Depot •  Download Site •  Other Sources

•  Centralized Location For Perforce Tools •  Community Built Tools (Internal & External) •  Community Supported •  Connecting Developers and Users

DOC BRANCH

•  Multi-Faceted Informational Resource •  Knowledge Base •  Wikis •  Blogs •  Social Media •  User Contributed Material

•  Launching With Internal-sourced Materials •  Brings Together Silos of Material •  Want/Need Feedback On What Is Useful •  Perforcepedia – leads to User Contributed Material

WHY BUILD THIS?

•  Field of Dreams is Wrong •  Version Everything Means Bringing Together:

•  Admins •  Developers •  Non Technical Users

•  The Virtual Community •  Best Practices – “How Do YOU Get Stuff Done” •  Social Media/Coding/Practices •  “Open” Methodologies •  Part of A Culture of Contribution

Creating a Culture of Contribution

WIDEN THE NET

Roman Forum Pic

GATHER COMMUNITY, 753 B.C.

Meeting house pic

GATHER COMMUNITY, 19th CENTURY

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GATHER COMMUNITY, 2011

POTENTIAL CHAOS OF IDEAS

FUNNEL UP

Widen the Net Gather Community Funnel Up

CREATING A CULTURE OF CONTRIBUTION

Tomorrow’s talk on JavaScript API

with

Fred Malouf and James Creasy

Thank You!