The Dojo Ecosystem: How Open-Source and Commercial Succeed Together

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1 presents The Dojo Ecosystem: How Open-Source and Commercial Succeed Together

2 Nice to Meet you Dylan Schiemann Co-Founder of Dojo Toolkit CEO, SitePen, Inc. President, Dojo Foundation Based in @dojo

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5 Dojo History and Roadmap 2004 First code 2005 Dojo Foundation release 0.1, IBM, AOL release 0.3, 0.4 release 1.0 release release release 1.4 release mobile 2011 release 1.6, 1.7 (Nano), release 1.9, 2.0, 2.1

6 Project Goals Unified JavaScript toolkit for superior web and mobile apps Fill the Gaps (browsers, platforms) Fast, Powerful, Efficient, Modular, Extensible, Professional Business-friendly: grids, charts, forms, & data Rich UI widgets (calendars, 3D carousel, etc)

7 Philosophy Push the limits (vector graphics/webgl, offline, HTML5,...) Define and adopt defacto standards (AMD, JSON Schema) Developer productivity and tools Open, free, & liberally licensed

8 What's Driving Us? Less is more uxebu experiments and embedjs microtoolkits splitting things out, bringing them back together mobile evolution of loaders evolution of browsers/html5

9 Multifarious Experiences

10 The Dojo Foundation Open Home for the Open Web

11 Foundation Structure The Dojo Foundation is the home of great 100-point open source projects, created by extraordinary people and companies to solve important problems. 501(c)(6) non-profit foundation just enough foundation without bureaucracy or excessive process 5 member board Toolkit project lead council (1 per project) Voting by committers (generally through mailing lists) Committers nominated by project, reviewed by board Projects are very autonomous All code contributed through CLAs

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13 Major Contributors & Users AOL, IBM, SitePen, TIBCO 800 Flowers, Alcatel-Lucent, ADP, BMS, BMW, Chase, Citi, Cheesecake Factory, Cisco, Cox, Daimler, ESRI, Fidelity Investments, Google, Intalio (WebTide), Lufthansa, Mozilla, Napster, NASA, Oracle (Sun), Orange, Pearson, Thomson Reuters, UK, Uniface, USA, uxebu, vmware (Spring), Vodafone, Wall Street Journal, Williams-Sonoma, Zend, 1000s more

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16 Current Involvement Use Dojo for RIA and Ajax initiatives Sponsoring events Getting more involved

17 Potential Contributing patches and improvements More vocal with necessary changes Sponsoring improvements Creating developer ecosystem between Dojo and Uniface Users

18 Uniface Community

19 Dojo Benefits for You Excellent web application user interface elements Open and constantly improving toolkit and features Standard toolkit, easier to find assistance

20 Community Benefits Collaboration Discussion Sharing Faster time to market

21 Open + Commercial

22 Open 100-point open source Business and commercial friendly BSD license, clear IP policies Decentralized control Ownership and contributions Typical of commodities

23 Commercial More specialized e.g. Uniface development tools on top of Dojo Typically includes direct support or assistance e.g. SitePen provides paid Dojo support

24 You Build apps and platforms with tools you like Leverage the best of both worlds Scale Up & Down Market Segmentation Rapid Deployment & Iteration Experimentation Reach New Markets Focus on your differentiation

25 Setting Direction

26 Marketing Examples Documentation Community Conferences Being Genuine But not shy

27 Dojo Nano "Base-less" Dojo Only using the parts of Dojo you really need, on a much more granular level Dojo 1.7 AMD loader <4K gzip/minified

28 Vision Defining clear vision and goals Agreement Execution

29 Evolution Web 1.0 Dumb client, smart server Focus on HTML & CSS, "separation of markup and presentation" Web 2.0 Smarter client, smart server, conflict Initial break of many paradigms Search indexing, history, navigation Didn't really account for mobile DOM-centric Ajax: sort of real-time

30 Revolution: Separation of Data and UX You want access to your data, and information in a variety of experiences relevant to your current context Aggregation User Interfaces and experiences Challenging past assumptions statelessness, truly embracing REST abusing markup for "separation of markup and presentation" control and federation of data

31 Strategy Many conferences Inspiration Lead by example

32 Documentation Significant Tutorial Series (54 and counting!)

33 Some Plans for 1.8 to 2.0 API Clean-up, Further Split of Features Compose (improved declare), xstyle, put-selector, Dijit/Widget Remove weight of deprecated APIs DojoX completely moved to foundation packages Releases Performance test suite across entire toolkit, and eventd Independent releases of packages, roll out package release sets Support major HTML5, mobile, modern browser features Web Builder and Dojo Foundation Packages integration Tools support improvements

34 Cohesion Herding Cats Best Code Wins

35 Major Changes and Additions (1.6) Dojo Object Store Feature detection/has.js LESS CSS framework HTML5 data attributes AMD (Asynchronous module definition) Android, IE9, FF4+ support dojox.socket, Stateful Dojo Web Builder Tutorials, Docs

36 Major Changes and Additions (1.7) Query, events refactor (including delegation) AMD refactor complete (async loader) Mobile Blackberry 6+ Touch events in Dijit dojox.app Dojo Foundation Packages dgrid, CPM, NPM Tutorials, docs, Maqetta

37 Result: Modular Tools, Community Tools to mix and match to create your app Separate data from UI logic simple and seamlessly Modular enough for very simple projects, flexible and consistent enough to handle the most challenging, featurerich web apps

38 Open Source and Commercial are Mutually Beneficial for You

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40 SitePen: We help our clients build great apps. Web App Development, Design, Advice Support & Training Strong advocates and contributors of FOSS Works with some amazing companies and organizations:

41 Thanks! Q&A SitePen sitepen.com Dojo Toolkit @dojo