The ComunidadGX is a place for meeting others and
exchanging knowledge and experience among GeneXus users. It originated in
response to the initiative of a group of members of the ARTech forums who were
seeking for a place to gather their programming suggestions, GeneXus tricks,
recommendations, job requests and offers, the publication of the background of
GeneXus programmers, and the presentation of projects that need development,
integration, and marketing partners, etc.
"From the very beginning, we knew that if we really wanted
to honor the tool around which we had gathered, the site hosting ComunidadGX had
to be a full-GeneXus development," said Luis Mariano Papagni, who coordinates
the undertaking from Argentina.
"The first version of the community was published in May
2003, based on a KB (Knowledge Base) sent by Ariel Isola, combined with
different features sent by other members. It was fully developed with GeneXus
7.5; it used the Visual Basic generator, and Access as a database," he
explained.
From then on, ComunidadGX started growing in terms of
members and features, following good critique and suggestions from those who
started registering. The last version of the site offers many alternatives for
resource integration and collaboration.
"The KB of ComunidadGX was published in the first days of
2004 in GXOpen (http://www.gxopen.com) so that everyone would have a chance to
add improvements and features. This offers the possibility of improving on
successive versions. It also offers a chance for the GeneXus community to have a
place that will contribute to its integration and enhanced collaboration,"
Papagni explained. He added that they were thinking about migrating the KB to
GeneXus 8.0, and maybe to GeneXus .NET with SQL, in future versions.
Papagni said that, "many members of the GeneXus family
have participated [in this project] such as Ariel Isola, Marigel Corti, Pedro
Fernández Aphal, Gabriel Icasuriaga, Esteban A. Carle, Sergio Guichon, Juan
Echavarria, Cristian Lira, my buddies from SOFTeam, among many others who have
contributed with their grains of sand in their free time."
ComunidadGX
http://www.comunidadgx.com.ar
Project in GXOpen:
http://www.gxopen.com/main/hproject.aspx?309
Today, the GX community site encompasses:
- User ABM
(Addition, deletion and modifications)
- Project publication
- Job
requests and offers
- Statistics (number of users, offers, and
projects)
- Suggestions
- Per-user message box
-
Search of GeneXus analysts and programmers
- Tips and tricks
-
Events, seminars, and courses (on-line registration)
- Mail notices
about projects and job offers.
- Access to GXOpen, to the GeneXus News,
and to the GeneXus Download Center, used as web services provided by
ARTech.