openCOD is an Open Source initiative for BlackBerry handheld applications and the wide variety of backend systems you might want to connect a BlackBerry to. Members of openCOD get together to share their ideas, expertise and enthusiasm to create BlackBerry applications and games and release the source code for others to download and use. Open Source can reduce the cost of ownership for businesses, and it can raise the skill of the participants and consumers in all of the technologies that are used.

As an example of this philosophy almost all of the software running this site has been provided by the Lotus Domino Open Source community OpenNTF.org. We're extremely grateful to OpenNTF and even more so because the guys say "no thanks necessary....".

What openCOD provides is a framework for the BlackBerry community to come together and create really good software for the BlackBerry and any backend applications needed on platforms like Lotus Domino, Microsoft, Novell, SAP and so on.

The Juice Bar - Is a discussion board. Post your questions, and ideas here. With luck you'll get a useful or thought provoking responses. You need to register with openCOD to participate in the forum. The Juice Bar uses an OpenNTF application entitled "domBulletin" which you can download here.

The Main Bar contains the following discussion topics:

• openCOD PIN messages
• Chatter
• Tech Forum
• Site Problems
• Project Ideas
• Suggestions

The COD file - The COD is a place to find code snippets (Java, C, C++ or MDS Studio project files) and possibly files for backend systems. Registration is required to add code, post a question or bug or rate the code.

The Project Management System - (registration required for project managers and to be able to download certain project releases) - Project Management System or "PMT" is used to facilitate the management of openCOD open source application. The system provides project managers with the ability to manage:

• project releases
• manage tasks
• manage bug reports
• post project news
• post documentation
• participate in project specific discussions

Project begin with these two steps Setup a login by registering here (if you don't have one already). Create a project here. Before starting a new project it's not a bad idea to float the idea in The Juice Bar in the "Project Ideas" section.

This list will grow! But for now send an email to this guy:

Jason Hook

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