Just finishing CDF rollout...
Thought I'd take a quick breather from getting everything ready for our rollout of the Computable Document Format (CDF) technology. Rather than tell you about the tech (just authoring a blog on that for the Wolfram blog), I'm thinking of the process.
And gosh there's lots for the team to think about.
First there's the technology and workflows for it. That's got to be right or all bets are off. Then there are all the websites, their technology, their testing. The press releases, briefings, talks. The blog items, examples and questions. Internal announcements, external announcements.
We're kind of used to this with Mathematica but we know our audience well. Here we're into uncharted territory, not just for us but for everyone.
In the end, what I will worry about is whether we've explained what we're doing well enough. Will people get CDF's significance? Have we spoken both to people from document and from software backgrounds---they're very different. Have we missed some crucial part of the story, some important nuance because we're so close to it?
Watch this space (literally)...and see "Documents come alive with the power of computation"!
P.S. You'll want CDF Player installed. It's free here.
CDF is now live at www.wolfram.com/cdf. Let us know what you think!