Great things happen over a beer at Citrix events. As many of you who attend can attest, you never know what you will learn or who you will meet. For me this year the highlight at Summit was having a beer with Gus Pinto and Rich Crusco. After being summoned by Barry Flanagan to join a conversation about what Citrix can do to better to connect with the community and provide the resources and web presence to leverage the growing opportunities. At Citrix we have been making some fairly recent concerted efforts to better engage with the community including the CTP program, the Citrix Blog, the new CDN site, and a few other activities. However we also recognize there is a long way to go to really utilize and grow the massive skills that exist around the Citrix Community.

It turns out we have been planning some specific projects like the ADI Best Practices site to help educate the industry around App Delivery methods and solutions, but we were also looking for more insight from experts in the community. It did not take much beer to have Gus and Rich exploding with ideas and passion about how Citrix can deliver on the ADI vision. And they are not just talk, many of you already know Gus and Rich as MVP's, a CTP, and huge contributors to the community. In their spare time they have been running the Fameworkx.com site that has helped literally millions of IT Pros and users.  Their day job has been very significant as well, designing and implementing  ADI solutions for Citrix ( and VMware ) award winning partner Entisys. So imagine if we could tap that energy and experience and make it a full time effort ( day and night... ) supporting and growing the Citrix community and ecosystem. Well that's just what we are doing , starting next week Gus and Rich will be joining Citrix as full time Citrites and Technology Evangelists. To find out more about Gus and Rich and their plans to help the community checkout the latest posts at http://www.frameworkx.com/

Welcome aboard !

If you have not visited CDN lately, I suggest you give it a view. The team has made some significant usability enhancements as well as interesting content that is being contributed by employees as well as the larger Citrix community. For example, Vishal Ganeriwala has made a recent blog post that describes multiple ways to get a Client IP address from a Citrix session, in last few days the post has been viewed almost 3000 times ! , apparently lots of our users want to learn an easy way to do this. CDN provides a home for Developers and Citrix Pro's to learn and share ideas, code, and scripts for developing new products to integrate with Citrix or enabling and enhancing their Citrix implementations .

The new site also ranks the contributions by popularity, so a special thanks to Venkata Krishnan part of our Citrix Community who contributed a script providing printer driver information on a farm, this script now ranks at the top for popularity on our Script Exchange.  

You will also find featured content, such as new pages and resources describing the exciting new Citrix Workflow Studio , stay tuned for more  announcements around this product. The new site will also provide a location for sharing Workflow Templates and leveraging the power of the community.   

Let us know what you think and more importantly make use of the resources and contribute so we all can benefit.