CPshared and CPUG: A Couple of Observations

On the two Check Point user community sites CPUG and CPshared, I made a couple of interesting observations today:

  • CPshared already had more active threads today than CPUG. This includes all the public boards, which I verified by loading up both sites in Google Chrome's "Incognito Mode" to ensure I wasn't logged in.
  • The number of Check Point employees already participating on CPshared is far more than I've ever noticed on CPUG in the past two years.

Keep in mind that the CPUG forums have been around since August 2005. CPshared was only "officially" announced last week--it had been privately tested for about 4 weeks before that.

Again, these are just observations. They may be completely meaningless. You can come to your own conclusions here.

Announcing CPshared: The Open Technical Forum for all things Check Point

I've been a participating in the Check Point user community in various places for a long time now. Heck, I ran a Check Point community of my own for a while. It's not often the community gets a new place to congregate, so it's worthy of an announcement.

Presenting CPshared:  The Open Technical Forum for All Things Check Point. In the NG days, this was a base "package" in the Check Point suite that handled communication between management and modules. It was also called the SVN Foundation. This is where the name comes from, and I think it's an appropriate name.

CPshared was started by an ex-Check Point employee and a long-time member of the Check Point community. It is designed to be an alternate approach to information dissemination to more established forums like CPUG--a forum I kickstarted by donating my own content to in 2005. CPshared includes a blog (with contributions by others), a web-based forum, a Twitter account @cpshared, and a web-based chat system.

CPshared has been under private beta for the last few weeks with a number of other long-time members of the Check Point community, including a few Check Point employees. It was formally announced today. If you use Check Point products, give it a look and join the small, but growing community!