Today GotUC.net is proud to offer an opportunity for developers to start developing UC enabled applications, without having to overcome the hurdles of setting up Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta.

If you join the GotUC.net Community and you promise to behave well, and know we have the right to revoke your account at any time, GotUC.net will offer you two user accounts in the GotUC.net domain: one personal account, and one account you can use to enable bot scenarios.

The domain accounts are enabled for most UC capabilities Presence, IM, email and Exchange Web Services, and even some limited calling capabilities to the PSTN or to other Community users via Communicator.

What do you need to do? Simply, just -

1)      Join the GotUC Community

2)      Once you have joined our community you will see a new “Developer Sandbox” menu tab

3)      Click the tab and you will be taken to the registration site.  Once there just click the  Register button then fill in the form.

I can hear you asking “Sounds great Marshall but what are the limitations?”

Well, I ‘m glad you asked. The limitations are really very simple also –

1.       Please use your real name – this will be how you show up when you connect to GotUC.Net using Office Communicator.  We want to present a positive image for those organizations that we federate with.

2.       We expect you to behave reasonably and to not abuse the system. Other members are using the system too and we don’t want anyone crashing the system for everybody.

3.       No applications that would be considered illegal or not appropriate for the intended purpose of this site. We don’t want someone using the system for Trojans or spam.

Note: we reserve the right to cancel without warning any accounts that break the rules.

We will have tutorials and videos coming shortly on how to create UC applications and debug them using our sandbox. If you have suggestions for new functionality or things that you would like to see then just let us know.