Rolling out Appcelerator TUG India Chapter

Over the last few weeks, I have been discussing the idea of community evangelism with folks at Appcelerator. It was quite clear from the discussions which I had with Jeff Haynie (CEO) and Scott Schwarzoff (VP – Marketing) that Appcelerator is all set to recognize the developers and community who leverage their Titanium platform and help them tune it according to the developer’s need. India, as a country has a large number of web developers, and my intention to get involved in discussions with Appcelerator was due to two reasons:

1. Firstly the Titanium platform is amazing, my first impression about it was, it can truly build Rich Unified Applications (RUA), though the hardware coverage is not that exhaustive but with insights from Appcelerator, seems like the next mobile platform they intend to cover can be BlackBerry. Also what is impressive is that within last 6 months, Appcelerator has extended Titanium support for 6 platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Web, iPhone and Android).

2. Secondly, as the web developer community in India is huge, and if they are provided with right support from Appcelerator, I am sure the Titanium platform can be put to use and build amazing social, enterprise and collaborative applications.

With that being said, feel free to join the Appcelerator Titanium User Group (TUG) India here. Learn and share your experiences with Titanium Platform, and if you require any further assistance, you can try to ping me (twitter or gmail) or reach out the Appcelerator team itself (over their IRC channel). We look forward to your participation and hope we build together an active community.

So lets connect and Code Strong.