If you are a developer who has an application available to the public in the App Catalog, I've got a couple of things you might want to get involved in:

First -- we are setting up a way for developers with apps in the catalog to have access to upcoming releases of the software to test compatibility of their application. Please drop me an email (chuq@palm.com) with the email addresses of the people you need to have access to the early release and what application you've published and I'll set you up. We're also setting up a private area here on the forums to support this early access.

Second -- I've been thinking about how to help developers connect to each other and their users. Here's a simple one: if you use twitter, send me your twitter info and I'll make sure @webOSdev follows you (or your product's twitter account, or both....). That way, anyone following @webOSdev will have the ability to connect with and follow the developers via our Twitter contacts. Special added bonus: I'll be monitoring the tweets of everyone we follow and doing the RT thing on tweets I find interesting, and looking for things to put in the weekly "What's Happening in webOSLand postings on PDN blog (* note 1).

Third -- a number of developers have asked about getting access to download numbers for their applications. If you want access to that info, drop me an email and I'll get it for you. We're working on adding it to the portal so you can see it from your account, but until that happens, I'm your contact for that (* note 2).

chuq

(* note 1: even after all these years, I still find saying things like "follow me, and I'll re-tweet your tweets" with a straight face difficult. But I'll do my best.)

(* note 2: or you can use the preware patch to re-enable the count in your app catalog on your phone. But of course, I would never actually recommend that someone patch their phone or use a homebrew app. So I didn't.)