We recently delivered our first hands on training session.  We very much appreciate the folks that came by and took part. Your feedback was invaluable and we hope to deliver many more training sessions.   In this session we covered

• Social business overview
  • Engagement, Virality, Loyalty 
  • Social as an integration point
• Social Applications
  • Social Applications - What are they?
  • Social Architecture - How they work  
• Application and Data Portability
  • Applications everywhere
  • Data in one place supporting many networks
• Identity Management, Not Profile Management

We have much more to do for training including sessions which cover business, marketing and technology in depth.   Want to have a session let us know (training@rignsidenetworks.com).

Here is a copy of the slides for the presentation. Ringside Training Presentation

Over the next few days Ringside engineering is getting together to do some design/planning for the next release. All design docs will be posted on the public wiki. We will be in irc #ringside all day as well. If you are interested in participating / listening please let us know we can Skype you in.

• JIRA Design Tasks
• Start of design docs
  And if you are in the NJ area outside of Philadelphia on Thursday, April 10th let us know we are going to get physically out of the office and do 'something'.

Our first goal -  Provide context

and boxing for each item that we have a scoping or estimate in place for the work for this release.

Our second goal, dig deeper

into some of the larger items which will have a wider impact on everyone and we should all be in sync on.
Some of these can have break outs where appropriate.

Some fun?

• Would also like to have two app-a-thon's for integration type applications, talk more about this tomorrow.
• and get out Thursday night

Schedule:

Tuesday:
9am - Post mortem thoughts/notes.
10am - Architecture Review with focus on where stuff fits
- multi-networks
- open social
- open id / o-auth
- payment, ....

12pm - : : Scoping and boxing
http://jira.ringsidenetworks.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&&query=design&summary=true&description=true&body=true&type=6&pid=10000
1. Framework level - Multi-networks, Business Objects, API, Key Mgmt, Authorization, ...
2. Application Level - Control Panel, FBML, Apps?, Clients
3. Integrations - OpenID, Payment, OpenSocial, FBJS

Wednesday - Deep Dive
Business Objects/ORM
Session Management
Clients
Hooks/AOP

Appathon -- 1-2hr.
Thursday
Morning - Deep Dive
Identity Mapping
Open Social -

Appathon - 1 hr.

Afternoon - Project Review and time planning.
Evening - Get out of the office and do 'something'.

Beta 2 Released

We released Beta 2 tonight and we are on pace to have releases every 2 weeks here on out. To facilitate this we have a completely automated build and test process much thanks to the open source projects listed for making this possible.

• Hudson ( https://hudson.dev.java.net/ )
• PHP Unit ( http://phpunit.de/ )
• SimpleTest ( http://simpletest.org/ )

We have also started to add tests against our demo/tutorial applications with simpletest to ensure each beta supports the tutorials as well.

Beta 2 Includes

• Working Identity Mapping, though we are adding more in usability and demonstrations in the next Beta.
• Starting example of Payment APIs, Tags and administration (Brian is posting a screen show of this as well)
• Developer Network UI - Enables adding support for an app to connect to multiple networks
• Network Management - Ability to add third party networks (supporting lots of social communities to start using your application)

Release Notes Beta 2

Some insights into Beta 3.

• Identity Mapping
• Early beta of Open Social integration
• Open ID Integration for IDM
• More payment APIs and TAGs
• More example applications.