LAVA wireworkers...
Allow me to introduce myself into this community. My name is John Pasquarette and I am responsible for NI's Software business (I am in Software Marketing and work closely with Software R&D managers). I am sure I have met many of you over the years, but one of my 2009 New Year's Resolutions is to get more active in the LabVIEW community. I would like to capture more user input and better inform our most active users about various topics coming out of the LabVIEW team here at NI. One of the ways I am trying to do this is with a new blog called Inside LabVIEW. I have been quietly blogging for the past few months (mainly to prove to myself that I will stick with it), and I am now coming out of hiding with my "2009 LabVIEW New Year's Resolutions" blog post. I want to formally invite you guys to take a look periodically at my blog and weigh in on the topics there.
We are constantly talking about strategy, policy, and technology ideas here at NI, and I am hoping that the blog may provide a more nimble, "Web 2.0" approach to tapping into your thoughts on these discussions. The LAVA forums and the info-LV forums will have great discussions periodically on these kinds of topics - in fact, the discussion that pushed me over the hump into action was an info-lv post by David Moore entitled "Will LabVIEW Survive" that many people joined in on. I found that the thread meandered through lots of different topics, many of which are key focus areas or concerns here as well. I hope that the blog will be a more direct way to engage in some of these topics going forward. We'll see how it goes. I hope to cover topics like:
- new ideas we are working on
- background behind feature decisions and release strategies
- new technology areas we are moving into
- policies and practices around support, upgrading, documentation, bug fixing, etc...
- cool applications I see from our LV users
Take a look at some of the things I hope to move forward in 2009. I would love to hear your comments about any of these or other issues that you want to see out of NI. Hopefully, we will both find some value in this in 2009.
Thanks
John Pasquarette
VP, Product Marketing - Software
NI