Tomorrow in Paris, France there is an all day meet-up for Zimbra community members, partners and customers. The agenda includes Zimbra roadmap beyond ZCS 6 and will have some basics on Zimlet development with drinks to follow. It looks like a great opportunity to learn a lot and network with others in the community. There will be both English and French speakers there, be sure to check it out!
From our French friends:
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Le “Zimbra Forum France”, première réunion de la communauté Zimbra en France, est un lieu d’échange où partager idées, astuces et expérience de Zimbra. C’est l’occasion de découvrir les clés du succès de la solution de messagerie collaborative open source Zimbra auprès des entreprises publiques et privées.
Programme de l’événement
L’équipe Zimbra viendra présenter les nouveautés de la dernière version et donner un aperçu en avant première de la roadmap des versions futures. Puis, points forts de Zimbra, innovation et compatibilité seront les thèmes à l’honneur avec une présentation des technologies permettant d’intégrer Zimbra au Système d’Information, suivie d’une initiation au développement d’extensions. La robustesse de l’architecture de Zimbra sera ensuite abordée sous l’angle de la montée en charge et de la haute disponibilité. Enfin le Crédit Mutuel Arkéa présentera un retour d’expérience de sa migration vers Zimbra pour plusieurs milliers de postes.
We held the first hands-on Zimlet training over at our London offices back in October, where Raja Rao put together such a great presentation and collection of modules that we decided to roll it into a permanent series.
If your organization is interested in enhancing Zimbra via communication with external services, adding extra functionality via widgets and application portals, or just wants to increase usability of existing inline content: We cordially invite you to our beautiful (and relatively warm) Sunnyvale, California campus February 23-24th. Whether your somewhat new to basic object oriented JavaScript programming or already familiar with advanced Zimbra specific SOAP, JSON requests, and hooks; our front-end engineers and best mashup gurus will be available to help get your coding started.
Details on this two day course’s agenda and the registration form can be found here: Zimbra-Training-Registration-Zimlet-Course.pdf
-For more information contact us or email training@
-Local Hotel options: Zimbra-Training-Location-Sunnyvale.pdf
-There are partner discounts, though any member of the community is welcome to attend even if you aren’t a network edition customer.
-Can’t make it in December? We’re holding another in May tentatively the 4th through 5th. Be sure to let us know early if your interested – space is limited and will fill up fast.
Find out about other sessions (for admins, helpdesk staff, and even end users) over on the training site.
It’s that time of year again and we are making our way to Denver for the annual EDUCAUSE conference.
We’ve got lots to talk about this year – not only did we cross a huge milestone, reaching 50 million paid mailboxes in less than four years, but we’ve continued to expand our reach in the Edu community (which alone is comprised of millions of paid mailboxes). New Edu customers this year alone include Eastern Michigan University, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Marietta College, Saint Joseph’s University, Swarthmore College, Savannah College of Art and Design, University of Findlay, and Wayne State University.
All of our Edu customers benefit from Zimbra’s rich calendaring and collaboration features, and many are contributing their own custom mash-ups to make Zimbra’s online tools work for best for them. Institutions like University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Simon Fraser University are creating special Zimlets to better serve their students and faculty. You can read more about their specific case studies in our back to school blog series.
Other recent mash-ups include DimDim’s application tab (pictured below), which allow users to access DimDim’s web conferencing services from within Zimbra. Additionally, a new social media Zimlet enables users to read and post tweets to Twitter, or make updates to Facebook and Digg from directly within the ZCS, without having to take the time to visit other websites.
This year we will be joined at the conference by Zimbra customers University of Pennsylvania and Georgia Tech who will be speaking about how Zimbra has streamlined collaboration across their institutions and discuss how implementing a collaborative email and calendar provider can be extremely cost-effective.
If you are going to be at the conference, don’t forget to check out their panel on Friday, November 6th and please stop by and visit us at booth #332. We will be giving away some great prizes!
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