Sri Lanka Salesforce Platform Developer User Group : First Meetup : Welcome and Introduction to Force.com community

1. Welcome & Introduction to the
Force.com Community
Chamil Madusanka
@chamilmadusanka
Organizer of Sri Lanka Salesforce Platform Developer User Group
Salesforce.com Certified Force.com Developer
Super Contributor on Force.com Discussion Boards

2. Outline
• What is Force.com?
• Sri Lanka Salesforce Platform DUG
• The goal
• Force.com community
• What next?

3. What is Salesforce.com/Force.com
Salesforce.com
CRM Force.com

4. What is Salesforce.com/Force.com cont…
Unlim ited Real- Real-Tim e
Tim e Program m able Program m able Workflow Real-Tim e
Cust om izat ion User Int erface Cloud Logic & Approvals Web Sit es
Real-Tim e Granular 750+
Mobile Int egrat ed Real-Tim e Securit y & Int egrat ed
Deploym ent Cont ent Library Analyt ics Sharing Applicat ions
Proven, Real-Tim e Transparent
ISO 27001 Proven Real-Tim e Query
Real-Tim e Syst em St at us
Cert ified Securit y Reliabilit y Opt im izer
Scalabilit y
Proven Real-Tim e 3 Global Dat a
Real-Tim e Salesforce t o
Real-Tim e Sandbox Cent ers
Upgrades Salesforce & Disast er Recovery
Int egrat ion Environm ent s
Mult it enant Kernel

5. The beginning…
• Started to work on Salesforce on April 2011
• Salesforce communities. Why not in Sri Lanka?
• Started Sri Lanka Group on April 2012
– First LinkedIn group
– Then Meetup.com
– First Meet up November 2012
• Now 41 groups from around the world

7. Support from Salesforce.com
Nick Tran
Senior Director, Developer Marketing at Salesforce
@tranmanyo
Kavindra Patel
Developer Programs Director at salesforce.com
@kavindrapatel
April Kyle Nassi
Developer Program Manager at salesforce.com
@thisisnotapril

8. The goal…
“The goal of the user group is to build an
enthusiastic, self-sustaining Sri Lankan
community that enables members to be
more successful with Salesforce and
connect with other Salesforce developers
in Sri Lanka”

9. Force.com Community
• Force.com Discussion Boards
(http://boards.developerforce.com/)

10. What Next?
• Technical gathering
– Tech sessions
– Workshops
– Trainings
• Casual gathering
• Future Topics
• Technical Speakers
– From the group
– From Salesforce.com

11. Thank you!!!
• Follow us via
http://www.meetup.com/Sri-Lanka-Salesforce-
Platform-Developer-User-Group/
https://www.facebook.com/SriLankaSalesforcePlatf
ormUserGroup
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Sri-Lanka-
Salesforce-Platform-Developer-4413456

12. Connect with me
• Email : chamil.madusanka@gmail.com
• Blog : http://salesforceworld.blogspot.com/
• Force.com Discussion Board Profile :
http://boards.developerforce.com/t5/user/viewp
rofilepage/user-id/57445
• Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/wachamil
• Twitter : https://twitter.com/chamilmadusanka
• LinkedIn : http://lk.linkedin.com/pub/chamil-
madusanka/33/308/a28