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Re: Zimbra at Educause? was Re: Zimbra at VMworld 2013 - SanFran
I did receive a message off-list from Andrew Hawthorn indicating that
Zimbra/Telligent will still be at VMworld (see below) and they will have
more content at Telligent's user conference (Sept 23-25 in Dallas, TX).
The Telligent conference was also mentioned on the Zimbra Announcements
Forum (http://www.zimbra.com/forums/announcements/):
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|Date: Last edited by robhoward; 07-17-2013 at 02:26 PM.
|Introductions: Rob Howard - Zimbra, CTO
|
| Hi Everyone,
|
| I just wanted to briefly introduce myself:
|
| My name is Rob Howard (email: rob@zimbra.com | twitter: robhoward)
| and I'm the founder and CTO of Telligent. Telligent is a company I
| started in 2004 when we created the first integrated suite of social
| / community capabilities (forums, wikis, blogs, profiles, etc.).
| We've evolved quite a bit since then, but an area that I was always
| interested in was deeper integration with email.
|
| The opportunity to acquire Zimbra is enabling us to do 2 things
| (1) continue investing and growing a great business with Zimbra's
| collaboration product (2) integrate social functionality where
| appropriate (this is my longer term vision for the 'social business'
| market).
|
| For customers that want to use Zimbra as a collaboration platform,
| we're not changing that. For customers that want to use Zimbra as part
| of an integrated social business capability, we are going to add
| integrations with Telligent's social business platform. To start with,
| these are things like single sign-on, integrated search and building
| on the existing Zimlet capabilities.
|
| Overtime, I know there are some really exciting new things we'll
| be adding. We're going to share more of our roadmap and talk about
| some of these integrations at our annual customer conference. Now that
| the acquisition is public, we are in the process of adding a Zimbra
| specific track (which will be updated soon):
| Telligent Customer Conference (http://telligent.com/bigsocial/)
|
| You will also see Zimbra getting back to its roots. I've already
| communicated to my product team that being active in the developer
| community is something that is very important to us for a numer of
| reasons. I'll be active in this forum, as will my team.
|
| I've gotten a lot of emails over the past couple of days and I'll
| do my best to reply to everyone.
|
| Thanks,
| Rob
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So this looks very promising,
Brian
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Brian Berndt
Messaging Systems Administrator
Purdue University - ITaP - IT Infrastructure Services
----- Forwarded Message -----
> From: "Andrew Hawthorn" <ahawthorn@zimbra.com>
> To: "Brian F Berndt" <bberndt@purdue.edu>
> Cc: "John Robb" <jrobb@vmware.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 8:33:05 PM
> Subject: Re: Zimbra at VMworld 2013 - SanFran
>
> Hi Brian:
>
> To clarify, Zimbra/Telligent will still be at VMworld -- hosting
> customer meetings and attending various events. Please let us know if
> you plan on attending vmworld, and we'll be sure to direct you to the
> right activities.
>
> I meant to suggest that our focus has now shifted. The Big Social,
> Telligent's user conference, is where you'll hear the most about
> subjects like the architecture and sizing of Zimbra 8. We're still
> determining the schedule, but we're likely to have a bevy of tracks
> and at least one large training session. We're excited because we have
> the opportunity to get so much more content to you; we can cover so
> many more topics in detail than we could have at vmworld.
>
> -Andrew
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pam Buffington" <pam.buffington@oit.gatech.edu>
> To: "zimbra-hied-admins" <zimbra-hied-admins@sfu.ca>
> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 12:42:47 PM
> Subject: Zimbra at Educause? was Re: Zimbra at VMworld 2013 - SanFran
>
> Will Zimbra be presenting a roadmap and some higher ed direction at
> Any Conference?
> Educause was the previous forum, then VMWorld (in theory). After the
> transition,
> where will this roadmap and large adopter meeting be at?
>
> Thanks
> Pam
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Steve Hillman" <hillman@sfu.ca>
> > To: "zimbra-hied-admins" <zimbra-hied-admins@sfu.ca>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 10:49:56 PM
> > Subject: Re: Zimbra at VMworld 2013 - SanFran
> >
> > I attended VMWorld last year, hoping to get some Zimbra Love, but
> > there wasn't a lot to be found. There were about 3 Zimbra talks last
> > year as well, and a couple of tech talks on Octopus (Zimbra's
> > Dropbox-like solution, based heavily on Zimbra Briefcase I think) -
> > this out of some 500 or so total talks. Some of the key Zimbra
> > product managers were there though, and I did get a brief chance to
> > chat with them in the hallway about the direction for Zimbra 9 and
> > Octopus (which got stalled when VMWare decided they wanted to roll
> > it into "Horizon"). I do have some interest in other areas of VMWare
> > (application cloud stacks, performance monitoring, etc), so there
> > were some other sessions I attended that I enjoyed.
> >
> > I think if you're going to VMWorld strictly for Zimbra knowledge,
> > you'll come away disappointed -- it's just such a small part of what
> > they do.
> >
> > I know Zimbra used to have a strong presence at Educause (Zimbra
> > people, not conference content) - I don't know if they still do
> > though.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > Hello everyone,
> > >
> > > I remember hearing a year or so ago that Zimbra was meeting with
> > > customers at VMworld rather than other conferences. So I recommended
> > > to my managers that I attend the San Fransisco VMworld this year.
> > > Can any Zimbra people on this list let me know if some Zimbra sessions
> > > will be added to the San Fransisco content catalog? They don't look
> > > like they are on there yet!
> > >
> > > Although I can see 3 application sessions for the 2012 conference
> > > related to Zimbra:
> > >
> > > EUC1920 - Case Study: Implementing Zimbra as a Private Cloud
> > > Collaboration Solution
> > > EUC2327 - Zimbra: How to Defeat the Rest
> > > EUC2791 - VMware Zimbra 8: Messaging as a Service in the Post-PC Era
> > >
> > > The only item returned for a search of "zimbra" in this year's content
> > > catalog is a speaker session for Marcello Golfieri whose bio includes
> > > that he is working on Zimbra as Research Engineer. This session is a
> > > Horizon Workspace: Data Deep Dive, which does sound interesting, but
> > > is not an application that I use at Purdue.
> > >
> > > We are working on an upgrade from ZCS 6 to ZCS 8. There have been
> > > several good posts about this on the list, but I am looking forward
> > > to learning more about sizing and architecture recommendations as
> > > well.
> > > Anyone else going this year and have you found any sessions for
> > > Zimbra?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Brian
> > >
> > > ---------------
> > > Brian Berndt
> > > Messaging Systems Administrator
> > > Purdue University - ITaP - IT Infrastructure Services
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "John Robb" <jrobb@vmware.com>
> > > > To: "Pam Buffington" <pam.buffington@oit.gatech.edu>
> > > > Cc: "zimbra-hied-admins" <zimbra-hied-admins@sfu.ca>
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 11:41:13 AM
> > > > Subject: Re: No Zimbra at Educause this year
> > > >
> > > > Pam and all-
> > > >
> > > > That is correct. We would be happy to organize a EDU roadmap webinar
> > > > if you feel it makes sense.
> > > >
> > > > We have been meeting with many of our customers at VMworld US and
> > > > EMEA.
> > > >
> > > > -jr
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Pam Buffington" <pam.buffington@oit.gatech.edu>
> > > > To: "zimbra-hied-admins" <zimbra-hied-admins@sfu.ca>
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 8:00:27 AM
> > > > Subject: No Zimbra at Educause this year
> > > >
> > > > In previous years several of us have attended a Zimbra roadmap session
> > > > at the national educause convention. Zimbra/Vmware will not be
> > > > offering such an event or attending Educause this year. I just wanted
> > > > to let everyone know in case you were planning on attending.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Pam
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > >
> > > > Pam Buffington, IT Support Prof Mgr Sr - Enterprise Application
> > > > Services
> > > > Office of Information Technology/A&I :: Georgia Institute of
> > > > Technology
> > > > pam.buffington@oit.gatech.edu :: (404) 385-7518
> > > > https://mail.gatech.edu/home/pc21?fmt=freebusy (my calendar
> > > > availability)
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Steve Hillman IT Architect
> > hillman@sfu.ca Institutional, Collaborative, & Academic
> > Technologies (ICAT)
> > 778-782-3960 Simon Fraser University
> >
> >