Saturday 16 April 2011 10:40:13 am

First of all thanks for sharing your considerations and your proposals for eZ Market.
Some clarifications from my side: eZ Market is a B2B extension store and not a B2C store with shrinked wrapped plug&play installable apps (like i.e. AppStore).
The eZ Market extensions will either connect eZ Publish to 3rd party systems, make cloud services available to eZ publish or add additional functionality. There is typically a customization / consulting effort necessary in all of the 3 scenarios. The installation and customization of the eZ Market extensions require eZ Publish expertise and therefore we like this job be done by our certified partners.

The provision of an eZ Market extension requires careful preparation and quality checks. Its a great business modell for our partners to derive additional revenue in leveraging existing project developments via eZ Market. Customers will benefit from cheaper rates because the development costs can be shared among multiple users.

The eZ Market is open for everybody willing to sign an R&D agreement with eZ. The R&D agreement includes a kit with guidelines and best practices to build eZ Market extensions.

And yes, you are right - the start with 2 extensions is pretty compact :) We decided to start small in order to build the eZ Market as we go and to be open for good suggestions and improvements from interested people like you.
We have much bigger number already in the queue - stay tuned...

Christof Zahneissen
eZ Systems Product Management
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Saturday 16 April 2011 1:14:34 pm

Hi Thiago

I wanted to give a partner perspective on the Market place. Personally I think it is a brilliant idea. A single location place where customers, partners and developers can come and see what certified extensions available.

There are a couple points:

1. Extensions will take time to plan, get budget approval, execute and then certify and share. So I am not surprised that there are only a few extensions right now.
2. There has not been a big history of paid extension creation in the eZ community. Most go to projects.ez.no. So change will come slowly

I love that you are upset that there are not enough extensions. Without people being emotionally invovled in the communtiy we will never see any change.

Can I ask that you always keep your expectations high for eZ and the Partners. We will do our best to live upto those expectations.

Kind Regards,

Tony

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Monday 18 April 2011 4:45:27 pm

Hi Marko,

the answer to your question "..you don't have to be an eZ partner in order to use eZ Market?" is:

You don't have to be an eZ Business Partner in order to create and provide extensions on eZ Market.
And yes - a freelance developer (or any other interested party) can sign the eZ R&D Partner agreement in order to certify his extension and provide it on eZ Market.

Typically we start the process after agreeing on a mutual mini-business case (one-page-document) where we conjointly examine if there is a interest for the extension, define the appropriate pricing model and have a look at the cost&revenue picture.

Christof Zahneissen
eZ Systems Product Management
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skype:zahneissen

Wednesday 20 April 2011 7:44:23 am

Any idea when this R&D partner agreement will be set up ?

Wednesday 25 May 2011 11:41:02 am

Christof, this statement is in conradiction with what it's said on the ezmarket faq:

• http://doc.ez.no/FAQ/eZ-Market/Q-Who-can-provide-extensions-on-eZ-Market

Could you elaborate/comment this one?

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