Paul Amery's pitch to potential Skype Developers
Paul Amery is Director of the Skype Developer Program, based in London. This is a handheld video of 19 minutes from Amery's pitch to more than one hundred programmers at the TMC Communications Developer Conference 2007 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California. In mid-May 2007 by Phil Wolff, editor of Skype Journal. The slide show is below the video
Feel free to annotate the video.
His slides were called "A Successful Conversation - The Skype Developer Program"
More to come.
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Comments
It is nice they are promoting developers. My
concern is the multiplatform approach they seem focused on. Developing for the windows platform targets 94+/-% of the market. Most developers work in their spare time without investment funding, so finding the time to just get a product out the door is a major feat.
Posted by: jccodez | May 24, 2007 01:50 PM
jccodez - good comments.
Absolutely right - windows is the main platform focus for distributing with Skype (Extras). Isn't multi-platform a good thing though? There are a lot of web developers who use the Skype toolbars and cross platform web components for enabling their own solutions too. In addition, the Skype4Java open source project has been well supported. I question the concept of developers coding in their spare time however, a lot of our partners are VC funded professional development houses. I hope there will always be a mix of bedroom and boardroom innovators. You never know where innovation will come from next
Posted by: Paul Amery | May 25, 2007 06:07 AM
jccodez - good comments.
Absolutely right - windows is the main platform focus for distributing with Skype (Extras). Isn't multi-platform a good thing though? There are a lot of web developers who use the Skype toolbars and cross platform web components for enabling their own solutions too. In addition, the Skype4Java open source project has been well supported. I question the concept of developers coding in their spare time however, a lot of our partners are VC funded professional development houses. I hope there will always be a mix of bedroom and boardroom innovators. You never know where innovation will come from next
Posted by: Paul Amery | May 25, 2007 06:11 AM