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Thanks to everyone who came out Monday for December’s JotSpot meetup. It was fun to put faces to names and meet new folks as we made ourselves home in Jot’s swanky new office.

After sampling flautas, guac and winter brew we settled amongst the cubes for some demos. Furthest-travelled ribbon goes to Michael Sampson, who looked remarkably fresh for being fresh off a flight from New Zealand. Mark your calendars and book your flights now for the next meetup on January 16th, 7p, Jot offices in Palo Alto. RSVP on the meetup page.

A big shout out to Reuben, Kathleen, Scott J., and Joe for the demos. Reuben kicked things off with a demo of the new Bug Reporter app, which we’ve been using internally for a couple of months. The entire product-side of the Jot team uses it every day – we’ve got something like 1400 bugs, issues, and feature requests in there thus far. (It will be in the app gallery later today…)

Kathleen Romano of Knowesys was up next with a more technical demo of how to use Jot forms to dynamically configure navigation in the wiki. Knowesys developed this technique while delivering custom apps for some of Jot’s larger customers.

Scott J. previewed the new Reunion app he’s lovingly crafted during his first month here at Jot. This particular app showcases the range of the JotSpot platform, which is equally at home supporting purpose-built collaborative apps as it is open-ended collaborative apps like the wiki.

The cherry on top was Joe’s demo of JotSpot Tracker, a new Jot ditty currently in beta. If you’ve got Excel spreadsheets that look more like mini-databases than financial plans, Tracker will lift them out of the email and shared drive ghetto and turn them into full-fledged web apps with a simple copy and paste.

After the demos we broke into smaller groups to talk shop. I hung with some Jot devs and brainstormed community development projects and processes. We’re at a critical mass of shared needs and Jot skillz and want to start co-developing in an open community process. More on that in a later post…

We plan on continuing the mix of demos and small group sessions where you can meet new folks and brainstorm. Happy Holidays all and hope to see you on the 16th of next month.