Last week, 4 of us from the AppFusions team traveled to Boston to participate in the IBM Connections user group called Social Connections 8.
Here’s a “storify” slideshow that captures some of the essence, as well as this quote by Simon Vaughan:
You need to be passionate, believe in why we are doing this, show leadership and do not be afraid #wheelbarrow #soccnx #ibmconnections
— Simon Vaughan (@SimplyS1mon) April 16, 2015
It was a great conference that I would highly recommend, if interested in getting up front, close, and personal with “who’s who” in the IBM Connections’ ecosystem. This includes the many folks that work daily to make IBM Connections’ customers successful: IBM developers, PMs, and IBM Collaboration Services’ (ICS) management — they were all there!
In addition, the conference was attended by a passionate group of customer end users and administrators, and dozens of expert consulting implementors from across the globe.
With a packed schedule, it was an exciting two days and we are grateful for attending!
Boston Science Museum Dragon – Gala Reception 4/16/2015
For our part, on Thursday afternoon, AppFusions’ Patrick Li and Ellen Feaheny presented about our new AppSpokes Framework for faster development and deployment of single code-based integration applications for cloud, on-premise, hosted, or hybrid IBM Connections environments. We’ll be sharing more on that soon enough; just getting going with some initial deployments.
Already from the conference, David Simpson, a full-on dragon slayer AppFusions’ developer, was inspired, and quickly integrated the IBM Connections functional header with Atlassian Confluence, bringing a native IBM Connections Cloud feel to Atlassian Confluence.
Here’s some of his results:
David then took it another level and added the header integration into AppFusions’ Immersive for Atlassian Confluence, in IBM Connections, and with a bit of additional theming, he morphed the Confluence theme to mirror the currently applied IBM Connections look and feel/theme.
For example, this:
… which looks a whole lot like the default IBM Connections theme, as shown here:
Harvard or MIT Crew doing a “Power10″ on Charles River – 4/16/2015
AppFusions’ Technical PM and overall great human Danielle Zhu was also with us, and AppFusions’ “Boston-camp”spin-off wouldn’t have been the same without her!
AppFusions left the conference with more knowledge than we arrived with or brought too, which to me means success. Our plate runneth over on great IBM Connections’ integrations plans and fired-up-ness — going to be a great rest of the year! THANKS to the Social Connections planning team!
The “Next” Social Connections event is planned for October, 2015 in Stuttgart! If interested, email info@socialconnections.info.
