Michael Smith, TerraTech founder, giving his keynote to the early rising audience at the 2007 Frameworks conference in Bethesda, MD. Michael spoke about opportunities for the community to contribute to improving the CF Fusebox framework as well as what the current composition of the Fusebox community looks like from various perspectives including geography, tools and level of experience.
After getting through the basic announcements and administrata, Michael expounded on all of the opportunities for the community of professional Coldfusion developers to give back to the rest of the community.
Michael started out by saying that there are an incredible number of opportunities to contribute to the Fusebox community. Things like documentation, testing, and supporting materials like educational materials, getting started guides, etc. part of the challenge that the Fusebox community faces is that Fusebox doesn’t enjoy the commercial evangelism that tools from commercial companies enjoy. These are just a few of his opinions on how the community might enliven the to increase the adoption.
Michael also showed a number of statistics that profile the composition of Fusebox community. He recently put out a somewhat unscientific survey via some of the communications channels frequented Fusebox’ers and it painted a rather interesting picture. Some things to note are the fact that 25% of Fusebox users are outside of the US and amongst the tools that developers use, 51% actually use Dreamweaver in some capacity.
He then opened up the floor to the attendees to share their opinions on what they would like to see in Fusebox. They provided
Ant deployment
Incorporating Testing harness tools in CFEclipse
Some sort of Captivate starter, educational vignettes on implementing and deploying fusebox
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