Through the Interface

Autodesk's Cloud Platforms team is running an interesting "incubator" program to encourage software developers to create applications that leverage Autodesk's PaaS layer. (This currently includes the View & Data, AutoCAD I/O, Autodesk Fusion 360, Autodesk BIM 360 and Autodesk ReCap 360 web-service APIs.)

I won't go into the details – you can get them here – but I will call out the important points as I see them.

• 2 weeks of working on your cloud-integrated app in Autodesk's San Francisco office
  • March 9-20, 2015
  • Autodesk experts on hand to help
• Open to all, but there's limited capacity
  • 14 companies will be chosen
  • You need to submit a proposal by January 10, 2015 to be considered
• Autodesk will cover accommodation costs for 1-2 people per company
  • Travel is not covered

This is a great opportunity to have Autodesk help you develop a tool that meets a compelling need your customers have for a cloud-integrated application. Not only that, but you'll have the chance to demo it in front of Autodesk executives at the end of the 2 weeks. That's really valuable exposure for your work.

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