The extension API examples repository is a growing collection of examples of the Symphony extension api services. We created these services for developers to design and deploy their own applications with full Symphony integration and capabilities. With these services, you can create custom modules, share content, creatively and dynamically render messages with structured objects, and more.
I have been involved with the foundation since it’s early days when I attended the first London meetup. When I started the hubot-symphony project, I had an account on the public Symphony POD and that was it. Like many open source projects, I started with a selfish purpose, to facilitate moving existing chat bot tools used in my day job onto the Symphony platform as part of evaluating Symphony. Building software to interface with an API without access to the system itself was certainly a challenge for a modern software engineer and I am glad to say the route I took is consigned to history thanks to the Open Developer Platform (ODP) provided by the Foundation. I want to discuss my initial development approach and how that has evolved as the Foundation has matured.
A small team from ChartIQ recently attended the Symphony Software Foundation (SSF) Annual Members Meeting. With us, there were around fifty technology savvy innovators belonging to everything ranging from small fintech startups to large global investment banks.
Last month, The Foundation held its 2017 Annual Members Meeting. With over 50 people in the room, this was our most successful meeting to date. More importantly, we saw the community actively come together to interact, build bridges and unleash the true value of open collaboration.
Colin Eberhardt, technology director at Scott Logic and the first At-Large Member of the Symphony Software Foundation, isn’t shy about expressing his appreciation for open source. He spends many weekends and evenings on GitHub as an active member of the open source community, contributing to projects of various scales. With each project, he learned something new.
When we talk about the web, we think of tech giants such as Facebook, Google and Twitter that have come to dominate the public web, or the latest breath-takingly valued startups, which are yet to turn a profit but are experiencing triple-digit growth. These companies have hundreds of millions of users and are household names around the globe. As a result of this success and the resources at their disposal, these ventures have made significant contributions to the technology of web development, giving developers excellent tools that are easy to learn, powerful to use and free.
Jon Freedman, head of trading technology at Brevan Howard, was one of the earliest contributors to the Foundation. Along with leading the hubot-symphony project, which was the first project to achieve “active” status, he is one of the most active committers in the community. On top of all of this, we’re also happy to say that he is our latest at-large member.
As many of you will know, Symphony can run either in a browser or in a desktop client made up of the HTML5 Symphony application and the Minuet HTML5 desktop container.
