Behind the Scenes with Bonita #21 (21 -> 27 Sept 2010)

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Dear community,

At the last BonitaSoft team meeting (who were all those people!? our team is growing!), Miguel mentioned how he’s impressed with the quality and quantity of our Bonita community. I’m happy to share that comment with you – who ARE the quality and quantity of our Bonita community!

The team is growing. We have just welcomed our newest additions from Germany and China. And we have a new partner in Norway.

We’ve had some discussions recently about the democratization of business process management. We know, and we know that you know, “democratization” is not equal to “simplification.” What you do with Bonita technically isn’t simple – the connectors contributed by this community aren’t “simple,” and the applications you implement aren’t “simple.” We are re-mastering some of our communications aimed at the less-technical business community to explain that the accessibility of Bonita does not mean missing features or less powerful software. What do you think about this – about the difference between “democratization” and “simplification” of BPM? Post your thoughts below…

Contributions

Recent connectors, extensions, and examples to check out:

Welcome to the open source BPM community

Hassane; George; tidav9; davdou; dbollot; jhbc; dzhang; senthilkumar; sbernard.fr; agriffiths; lucalzada; coolbrain; APinto; shinso05; CaspER; Stefanos; Ronaldo; scottm69; rubenshow2001@hotmail.com; BCL; MarkStega; ghilliker; jhonnelk; osolano29; jonabraham02; duhan_sandeep; it21053; cjg1979; casnewes ; xargs; chandrasekaran; gigapromoters; kazzed77; Alexandra; Stiff; rahil320; ingels; themack0; southernbelle; mahakala; docxo; Jose Carlos Perez; Bef; jhenkins; j30mcp; dkishore; dennist; Jinx1966; HIB; queenie.costa; theops; andros; wanly; osanchezm; alexceni; yomero; mdascalu; paolo; orlandomen80180; bpagel; inerza; bart6425; cbellocq; dqwhappyday; lucia.choi; katalinsz; toro; jfmerche; jbx; mustafa; hhuberlant; motes; mart; angela81; ctoledo 5; Trainee0815; fruizbe; brizz; cheepu; jiradcas; jcalcausa; jstuartmilne; m.patarin; dmikac; OliP; janet986w; leydi; MonaT; habichts; Fernando_F; manhattan; rbackus57; bihmouten mustapha; stanleyhe; ramilosg; krunalcontractor; leebert; DavidHH; ELFIGHA; mojomad; DougWScott; bldr1942; kakbar; Makolo; ddtddt; arnold.rva; Jonathan Walls; sejinster; alfkah; mr_top; viewIT; paulo; hancicimen; rfobrien76; tipmont; roadling; yyovkov; schinex; Oliver; raviles; sgcorreo@hotmail.com; carvalho_francois; teclab; MFeckl ; softstar; wladimirsc; albtorresmo; brahimalaya; charlie_chang; robert-stock; patskoo; mceniza; dbjones.sro; jorge

Not a community member yet? Join us.

They’re blogging about us

Dave Rosenberg blogs about [that upstart start-up Bonita] disrupting the software market:
BPM is a critical technology for application development, yet it is inaccessible for many IT organizations, leaving the incumbents ripe for disruption.

Hmm. Disrupt and empower?

Elsewhere, Marlon Carvalho has started a series of articles on workflows using Bonita. In Portuguese. Check out the first one here.

Have you spotted Bonita in the blogosphere? Are you blogging about Business Process Management and/or Bonita? Let us know so we can rebroadcast you in our blog or in our tweets.

They’re tweeting about us

Tweet-versations among: @schedolino; @greenbirdIT; @tedesign; @marlonscarvalho; @pigbar; @esgratis; @Guvenkip. Join in.

Our hash tags: #bos5 = Bonita Open Solution 5, #bonitasoft, #bpm = business process management, #workflow , #opensource = Open Source, #oss = Open Source Software, #ow2

Want to nominate a fellow community member for the September BonitaSoft mug award for “most helpful / most useful” community posts? Leave a comment below or email us.

Remember - the Process Challenge closes at the end of this month. Vote for your favorite!