I’m at the first full day of the Saxotech user conference in Tampa and so far the talk has been good. I’m going to reserve full judgment until I see more, but the things I am hearing are OK.

Jeff Hoffman, Saxotech’s VP for client services, announced this morning the formation of a customer advisory board, an online user group and an online developer community.

Saxotech is committed to providing best practices teams, a framework, underlying architecture, contributing solutions and how-to videos.

The developer community is live. Here are some bullets points on the development site, as described by Erlend Viddal of Saxotech:

  • An open source community within Saxotech
  • A completely open environment with freely downloadable solutions
  • A place where customers can contribute with own solutions
  • Forums where customers can communicate with each other and Saxotech’s solutions group

A note from my Twitter feed: MatthewManuel Open Source within the proprietary client is no different than saying “With MS Word – you can write a story and share the text” about 1 hour ago from web

Viddal also provided some solutions currently on the development site. They include:

  • AJAX based forums
  • AJAX user management
  • AJAX mini poll
  • CCE wizard
  • YouTube Solution
  • My Favorites
  • Marketplace