During the last weeks we have been releasing some key parts around eyeOS that can be specially interesting for developers. Today we are releasing something bigger, which will be from now, the new central place for all the eyeOS Developers around the world: The eyeOS Developers Community.

The new Developers Community, accessible through dev.eyeos.org, does provide lots of new places and services for eyeOS developers to find help on their developments and share the progress with other developers:

• Blueprints site, based on Launchpad, to register and work on projects and ideas around eyeOS.
• Bug tracking system, also based on Launchpad.
• Developers wiki with manuals, informations, how-to’s…
• The new Mailing  Lists
• Documentation centre  and  development manual
• And much, much more!

You can contribute to the new community by moving your projects, ideas, known bugs and development pages to the new sites, specially those which are now in the general wiki. We will progressively transform the eyeOS Wiki to a users wiki to find manuals and how-to’s of the system usage. All Development content should be moved to the new Developers Wiki.

You can also subscribe to the new mailing lists, to stay tuned on the new releases, bugs discussions, patches around the system…

This new site (and blog post) does end, for now, the serie of news of eyeOS for developers. There will be a last surprise sometime during March/April, and we’re sure will be greatly accepted by all the eyeOS developers… and probably PHP ones ;-).

To all those users who want to read news around the eyeOS project itself, we will be releasing very soon the roadmaps around the next big versions in eyeOS. You can be sure they will be very hot for everyone!

eyeOS received this Thursday the Yahoo! Technology Web Revelation 2007 award in Madrid, Spain.

One more time, we want to thank Yahoo! Spain and the whole eyeOS Community to make this possible. It’s great to be able to share with all of you this award. You all are invited to see it at Olesa de Montserrat (Barcelona), where eyeOS does live.

We are really proud to explain that Softpedia, the great software downloads website, has added a new “eyeOS” section under the Internet software category.

The new eyeOS category (which shows almost all the apps in the eyeOS Applications Community) will make possible to lots of Softpedia users to discover eyeOS as a new way to work, from everywhere with the same apps and games.

This is a very important step in eyeOS, since both the community and the core team are working together to create a platform where thousands of apps can live on, and the support of one of the biggest downloads website, which does provide specially downloads for the traditional Operating Systems, shows that we’re going the right way (but there’s still a long road to go!).

The next step will be to place a big round button called eyeOS on the top of the software sites, with Windows, MacOS, Linux…. But for that, we need 10 or 15.000 apps ;-).

Thanks, Softpedia!

Any Operating System can be considered good and used when the developers are interested in developing apps for it. For this to happen, developers must see benefits of using such a new platform to learn and code.

eyeOS is a very strong platform to develop rich Web Applications from scratch, with or without a desktop as background to work: the developer can forget HTML, JavaScript, AJAX… and user management, base security and lots of other things, by letting eyeOS take care of all this and center the efforts to create the application itself, like if it was a desktop one.

For this reason, the whole eyeOS Team is working hard on provide every developer the needed tools to discover the power of the eyeOS core and Toolkit and to start programming on it, with a strong development community behind.

The first step (and it’s just the “Part I” of a serie) is the new eyeOS Documentation Centre , a new platforw which does provide reference and documentation for every system part: Widgets, Services, Libraries and Kernel.

The new Documentation Centre (which can be accessed from doc.eyeos.org) has been created using eyeOS. The Documentation Centre itself is formed by eyeOS Applications, after removing the Desktop layer. Of course, you can download its source (released as Open Source) and create your Documentation Centre with it. You will find download links and information on the Centre’s homepage.

Some people get confused when someone asks them “What is eyeOS?“. There are several possible answers to that question -eyeOS as a Platform, eyeOS as a Web Desktop, eyeOS as a remote file access…-. We have looked for the best way to centralize all the possible answers, and the result is this slideshow:

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You can download it as a presentation in Microsoft Powerpoint format and OpenOffice Impress format, or to be printed in PDF format. You can also see/download it from the Concept section at the eyeOS Website.

New documents (such as the cool and completely full Developers Manual) will be published soon…