The FOSS Enterprise Application Platform
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Welcome to
PresideCon 2018
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Open Source
a love story
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Open Source
a love story...
...of pain, suffering and endless turmoil
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Open Source
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Open Source
IS...
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First and foremost: Sticking it to the man
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Open Source
IS...
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A beacon of hope
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Open Source
IS...
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an astonishing achievement
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Open Source
IS...
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not perfect
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Open Source
IS...
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hard work
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Open Source
IS...
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a privilege to defend
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Open Source
IS...
a worthwhile ongoing struggle
- make sacrifices of small conveniences to use and help promote open source
- volunteer your awesome people skills to help organise a conference, manage a user group or provide tutorials
- give constructive and useful feedback to open source projects
- keep using, recognizing and giving thanks to the open source software that you use
- don't expect more than you're willing to give and be thankful when it exceeds your expectations
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@dom_watson
About me
Dominic Watson
- CTO @ The Pixl8 Group
- Lead developer of Preside
- Father and husband, which always surprises me
- Ex-musical theatre actor
- Twitter: dom_watson
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Preside
A growing competitor for mid to large-scale commercial content and data platforms; open sourced. We work openly and with integrity to create a platform for and with our community.
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Our mission
To build an out-of-box web application foundation that does as much of the laborious, hard and overlooked work for you, accelerating teams as they focus on unique requirements.
To build a community and platform that leads by example; that is a joy to use, a joy to work with and a joy to participate in.
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Our vision
Preside solving complex needs for a wide breadth of industries and communities. A well-known name founded on openness and excellence.
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A concise Preside History
- 5 years ago (ish): Preside closed source
- We started from scratch on ColdBox and Presented at CFCamp
- Within 6 months, Pixl8 started developing applications for clients on the new platform
- May 2015: 10.0.0 was released
- Since then "minor" releases
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What's new in 10.10
- Coldbox upgrade (finally caught up!)
- Email centre enhancements to UX and some new features
- Record Cloning
- Task manager engine rewrite
- Healthcheck framework
- Admin login providers
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Email Centre
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Email Centre
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Email Centre
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Email Centre
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Email Centre
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Record cloning
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Record cloning
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Record cloning
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Task manager rewrite
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Healthchecks
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Admin login providers
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Where are we headed?!
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Thanks for listening
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PresideCon 2018
By Dominic Watson
PresideCon 2018
"Keynote" for PresideCon 2018, where Preside is at, where it's going and what's new in 10.10.0.
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