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Solution Exchange – Open Text RedDot CMS is back with a social community exchange platform
Solution Exchange is in beta mode – and that’s official. But what does it do at the moment?
The platform is forever evolving and has started from prototype roots to what it is today. It has evolved based on feedback so far to include things like the aggregation of useful blog sources and we need your feedback to help evolve it furthermore. It is far from final and even further from perfect, that’s why it is officially beta. The platform needs still a lot of improvement mostly based on the feedback we will provide.
At this stage the project lets you upload things. Things? Things! That can be anything, you can upload a RedDot CMS template, a DeliveryServer DynaMent snippet, a RedDot CMS plugin, your best practice PDF, or a white paper you want to share with others.
Users can comment, download and rate it. Depending on the license a developer, partner, RedDot Guru choses they can allow users to improve their ideas, discuss code bits, enhance templates, …
How can you participate?
You can register to join, which allows you to create a new solution page or participate in the “Community Feed” or “Tweet Exchange”. You can currently comment, rate, and tag solutions using your facebook account, with other external systems planned to follow suit. You can register using the link in the header of the site: http://www.solutionexchange.info.
Don’t want to sign up but want to give feedback?
Please give your feedback directly on their site here or just in the comments below on this blog. I spent a fair bit of my spare time to help building this project and believe that everyone has a helpful bit of code that they can put in a TXT file or something like that and share it with others. I have seen so many smart minds out there and I think you guys deserve kudos for this!
No cheap talk, just facts / Under the marketing radar
Another good reason to give feedback and have a look is that we are flying under the marketing radar with this. The Solution Exchange platform is made by developers for users, that is you! So you won’t find blinking marketing GIFs, amazing powerpoint presentations (apart from technical ones) or even advertisements on this site. Its a pure developer platform at this stage. I dare to say that Open Text might have woken up from the buyout fatigue and is now looking for ways to open up their user base. Was about time, heh? Yeah!
Go to the site ! Have a look at it and help us improve this project. If you have ideas, want to go on a rant about usability, think that there could be some major changes made to help making this site better, please: Do it! And stop whinging in the dark.
Feel free to comment here, as usual this is your place for free speech if you don’t feel comfortable doing it directly on Open Text ground.
Markus
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About the author:
Markus Giesen is a Solutions Architect and RedDot CMS Consultant, formerly based in Germany. Travelling around the world to find and offer solutions for a better world (in a very web based meaning). He just found a way to do this as part of a Melbourne based online consultant house. On this blog Markus shares his personal (not his employers) thoughts and opinions on CMS and web development. In his spare time you will find him reading, snowboarding or travelling. Also, you should follow him on Twitter! 
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Thanks for your support Markus and your help to raise awareness on the platform.
I wanted to add to Markus’ comments by reaffirming that we truly do want to hear your feedback and appreciate constructive critique. There are loads of things that I want to improve on the site currently but I need your feedback to help prioritise or be made aware of something completely new as the fact of the matter is, I do not view the platform from your perspective, which is why we need to work together to evolve the platform.
I will always welcome a chat through issues and therefore would love for you to introduce yourselves or simply get involved by signing up and becoming part of the conversation.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask me direct, leave a comment here on Markus’ blog, in the Google group, or better still – use the feedback form on the site.
Regards,
Dan
Sorry all. I need to hold my hand up and eat humble pie as we’ve had an avoidable bug within the feedback form submission process on the Solution Exchange site.
This has meant that not all feedback has been getting through and in actual fact, if you wrote anything of any length then it is likely that it did not as the issue was a constrained database table column limiting the size of the feedback comment.
I know that this is particularly painful, especially in the light of my pleas for feedback, so I hope you can forgive us this hiccup.
The issue has now been addressed, so if you have submitted feedback recently and not heard back from me, then could I politely ask that you re-submit.
Many thanks,
Dan
excellent. this is long overdue =)
Thanks for everyone who turned out to the APAC Open Text User groups this year where we showcased this new community. I’m really stoked about it, and the larger developer network overall. Just good to be surrounded by such a talented and passionate group of peeps.
http://www.cuneytuysal.com/software/open-text/tons-of-open-text-web-site-management-reddot-developers/