Two new communities are now available: Workstation 6.5 Beta Program LOCKED and ACE 2.5 Beta Program LOCKED. Visit these communities to get up to speed on exciting new features like Unity, which integrates your guest apps with your host.
Aside from the new beta releases, there's something else that's interesting about these communities. These two communities use a new model that integrates technical content with discussion forums and additional community services. The integration of content and services creates more ways to interact with VMware and your community peers and offers one-stop shopping for all technical and community resources.
Participants in the beta programs can:
Content
- - Access downloads, documentation, and release notes.
- - View, track, and give feedback on beta testing tasks.
- - Log & view Support Requests based on entitlement.
Forums
- - Participate in discussion forums we've integrated with relevant content. Bringing content and communities together creates more value for community members, especially as we add more community-driven services like those described below.
Community-driven Services
- - Log & discuss Feature Requests in a dedicated forum. We'll upgrade this to a Digg-like system where you can vote up or vote down feature requests, with the goal of giving the community a bigger role in helping set feature priorities.
- - Create "Journal" entries to share your beta experience and see what others in the community are seeing and doing.
- - View Expert Sessions: a VMware technical expert presents a new feature (initially slides synchronized with audio), and for two weeks the presenter is available to answer community questions via a dedicated discussion forum. See VMworld Expert Sessions for more examples.
Tell Us What You Think
We're pretty excited about the possibilities of this new community model. We'd love to hear your thoughts, so we can improve this model as we build more services and roll it out to other communities.
