So, I decided to use Sitefinity as my blog engine as a thank you for Telerik for supporting our user group .network.org by giving us a free license for Sitefinity.
Sitefinity is providing, if we can say, good starter kits for different kinds of usage (that i need all of them actually!). They provide Personal (Blogs,etc…), Company (DashSoft needs a new site) and the one I love the most, the Community Template. I really loved all the modules and the UI all put down & blended together to produce a wonderful site that i needed only to change the default group name and logo to ours.
As the two words Sitefinity and Community started to come together, I really though “hmmm.. Why don’t we see if the community and Telerik can collaborate together?
I have been always a fan of the win-win situations. The idea started to cook and i found that Telerik can help in the establishing important, market-needed values in the fresh students like commitment, researching the market for new ideas. In return the community would support Sitefinity by practicing those values on creating modules and controls for the Sitefinity platform.
So, Telerik in conjunction with Microsoft and .network would start a contest for the best Plug-in idea(s) and page control(s) that can be used on Sitefinity.
Beside the XBOXs, Free licenses, Internships at Telerik’s local offices, and all the cool stuff from Microsoft & Telerik, Winners would start their own projects on CodePlex, having exclusive internal support from very Telerik team that made Sitefinity. Also Students would be on Microsoft BizSpark’s radar, so these students would earn their opportunity to start new businesses on their own and really make a difference within the world.
I will post more updates soon after everything is finalized between Microsoft , Telerik & .network.