Attend the Developers Conference

The yearly Blackboard Developers Conference is now held in conjunction with the BbWorld Users Conference. It evolved from a Developer Workshop first held at Georgetown University in 2003 and now addresses the professional development needs of not only developers but also system administrators and other technical members of Blackboard's client community.

Attend regional Developer Days

Developer Days are "mini-DevCons" held in conjunction with the European Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference and the Australasian BbSummit each year. They are usually tactical in nature and a full-day in length.

Join the developer listserv

The developer listserv is a great way to ask questions or seek advice from other Blackboard developers.

Join TechBUG

TechBUG is an evolution of the SysBUG and regularly hosts webinars and other tactical sessions that address the current challenges of Blackboard's technical community.

Contribute to OSCELOT

OSCELOT, the Open Source Community for Educational Learning Objects and Tools, is a community of learning tool developers that creates innovative open source solutions for the challenges facing the eLearning community. They host code management infrastructure and hold a yearly Open Source Day event in conjunction with DevCon to promote and support the creation of open source learning tools. Many free and open source Building Blocks emerge from this passionate group. Their focus is increasingly on learning tools that comply with open standards and specifications.