DNN OpenForce 07 Day 1

Posted by Tom on Tuesday, November 06, 2007 to DNN News, OpenForce 07

Welcome to my coverage of DNN OpenForce 07. Don’t worry; you did not miss anything yet. The conference did officially started yesterday, but besides a rather lame executive keynote by a bunch of Microsoft marketing guys and overpriced Vegas beer, there was not much going on. I made a quick stop at the DNN booth in the expo hall after the keynote, but all I really wanted to do is hit the pillow after being up and about for almost 24 hours straight.

So here we are, Tuesday morning, about 9:30 am US Pacific Time. Today’s sessions will kick off with Shaun Walker’s highly anticipated DotNetNuke keynote address at 10:30 am.

11:45 am - Shaun just stepped off the stage and here is the gist of his keynote:

• dotnetnuke.com reached 500,000 registered users today
• DNN 4.7 released today
• DotNetNuke "Cambrian" (formerly known as DNN 5.0) announced (social networking API and core module suite, workflow engine, content localization, upgraded skinning engine, ...)
  
  
  • 1st look at Cambrian in January 2008
  • 1st production release of Cambrian in 1st quarter of 2008
  • Full release of Cambrian in 4th quarter of 2008
• get a copy of Shaun's entire presentation here (pdf - 3.10 mb)

12:35 pm - DotNetNuke Business Opportunities (Shaun Walker)

• DNN partnershop program will be launched by the end of 2007
• businesses will have formal relationship with DNN Corporation
• business leads will be routed to partners

4:30 pm - Building WAP DNN Modules Using Ajax, Web Services & Silverlight (Philip Beadle & Mitchel Sellers)

Philip and Mitchel put on a good “show.” What struck me the most was their genuine enthusiasm for the topic on hand and for DNN in general.

For the rest of the day I was able to get some face time with various members of the DNN community to talk DotNetNuke, business, and DotNetNuke business … very enjoyable!

This wraps up day 1 of OpenForce 2007. Tomorrow will start with a bang as ScottGu, Phill Haack, Rob Conery, and Shaun Walker take the stage for a panel discussion on Open Source on the Microsoft Technology Stack. Catch you then!

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