We've recently had the good fortune to convince Glen Kushner to join the OpenAmplify team as VP for Business Development. In that role, Glen will build our business relationships, both bilaterally (that is, B2B, case by case) and more broadly as part of a partnership process.

That partnership process is deeply interwoven with our Community. We've said, many times, that one of the primary objectives of the OpenAmplify community is to encourage and support the development of real-world applications that extend the benefits of the Semantic Web to all. This implies cooperation: someone needs to define what is needed, someone needs to describe how to meet that need, and someone needs to build it to that specification. Sometimes, one person can cover all three bases; more frequently, it's a combination of talents that get the job done. We call it "triangulation": OpenAmplify at one point of the triangle, a customer or user at another, and someone (or some ones) at the third point to make it happen.

We try to encourage such collaboration at community.openamplify.com. The ability to create Web 3.0 projects, attract people to them, and take them over the finish line requires a certain kind of entrepreneur, and we want folks like that to make our Community their home. We underwrite that by providing a venue, a set of tools and, importantly, a meeting place for talent. We hope you'll create Projects from your best ideas, or add your abilities to other peoples' Projects.

Glen, in the meantime, will be "triangulating" all over the country, and, concurrently, keeping an eye on the Community to see what promising Projects we should put extra horsepower behind. You never know when or where Glen might pop up...

Welcome, Glen, VP of Triangles.