What is Perforce doing to pave the road to innovation? Come hear about Perforce's internal ecosystem: how we have nurtured innovation, empowered employees, and powered creativity using Perforce technologies, platform extensions, and open source principles. Get a look at a few case studies of Perforce innovation from seed to blossom, including the Perforce JavaScript API, a Stream Graph applet (on demo at the conference), and the Eco server itself.

1. The Perforce Ecosystem
Jeffrey Bates
Director, Cloud & Ecosystem
James Creasy
Product Tech Research Manager

2. Where Did We Come From?

3. FROM MAILING LISTS TO FORUMS
Mailing List
• Up for a decade
• “Hands off” by employees
• Mostly used by admins
Forums
• Increased participation
• Internal experts can be “hands on”
• Searchable
• Persistent Data Storage

4. Where Are We Going?

5. USING SOCIAL MEDIA LESSONS
• Integrating Social Media & Other Data Streams
• Recognition of Top Users: Who’s Here?
• Expansion of Forums to Nurture Community
• Elements of the Ecosystem

7. APP JUNCTION
• Building on Existing Tools
• Public Depot
• Download Site
• Other Sources
• Centralized Location For Perforce Tools
• Community Built Tools (Internal & External)
• Community Supported
• Connecting Developers and Users

8. DOC BRANCH
• Multi-Faceted Informational Resource
• Knowledge Base
• Wikis
• Blogs
• Social Media
• User Contributed Material
• Launching With Internal-sourced Materials
• Brings Together Silos of Material
• Want/Need Feedback On What Is Useful
• Perforcepedia – leads to User Contributed Material

9. WHY BUILD THIS?
• Field of Dreams is Wrong
• Version Everything Means Bringing Together:
• Admins
• Developers
• Non Technical Users
• The Virtual Community
• Best Practices – “How Do YOU Get Stuff Done”
• Social Media/Coding/Practices
• “Open” Methodologies
• Part of A Culture of Contribution

10. Creating a Culture of Contribution

11. WIDEN THE NET

13. GATHER COMMUNITY, 753 B.C.
Roman Forum Pic

14. GATHER COMMUNITY, 19th CENTURY
Meeting house pic

15. GATHER COMMUNITY, 2011
Jeff’s Forum pic

16. POTENTIAL CHAOS OF IDEAS

17. FUNNEL UP

18. CREATING A CULTURE OF CONTRIBUTION
Widen the Net
Gather Community
Funnel Up

19. Tomorrow’s talk on JavaScript API
with
Fred Malouf and James Creasy

20. Thank You!