Last week, Salsa Labs made the trek to Pittsburgh and the LEED-certified David Lawrence Convention Center for Netroots Nation '09. The conference was big success, and it gave us a chance to meet many of the people who are making grassroots organizing happen in the progressive movement. The event was my first conference with Salsa Labs, and I enjoyed the chance to finally meet face-to-face many of the developers and web gurus who are working on packages and extensions for the Salsa platform. We are very excited about the forthcoming launch of the Salsa Marketplace this fall.

The Marketplace is part of a multi-pronged effort by Salsa Labs to make the Salsa platform more accessible and appealing to third party developers and partners. Our development team is currently working on a re-write of our existing API and SalsaScript documentation, along with some new tutorials. In addition, our new sandbox deployment schedule will help ensure that developers both at SalsaLabs and our partners are working on code that matches exactly what our clients are using.

If you're a developer and you're reading this post, I (Geoff) would love to find out more from you about what things you need to develop on our platform. Please send me an email, it really makes my day.

As for the other (non-Salsa Labs) portions of the conference, my favorite moments were the panel on redistricting (and the DLCCWeb shoutout from Matt Compton!), President Clinton's keynote address, meeting former Baseball Prospectus stat wizard Nate Silver (now of fivethityeight.com fame), and representing SalsaLabs while singing karaoke at Mark's Grill. My apologies to the Spin Doctors if they ever get their hand on that video.

Geoff Harcourt is the Director of the Salsa Marketplace. He welcomes any and all questions from developers and partners, and can be reached at geoff at wiredforchage.com.