If you’re planning to attend ASTD International Conference and Expo 2013 in Dallas, TX next week (5/19-5/22) and you’re curious about how your organization can begin taking advantage of the Tin Can API, come visit us at booth 577. We’d love to meet you and imagine together how your organization can benefit from a Tin Can-enabled approach. If you build tools for the training community, we’re happy to explore how you can add Tin Can support to your applications.

So, come find us!

We’ll be in Booth 577 in the Expo Hall. Andy, Tammy and I will be holding down the fort there.

If you’re looking for something to do on Tuesday night, join us at the Magnolia Hotel from 5:30 to 7:30pm. We are hosting a birds of a feather gathering with Float Mobile Learning. If you want to come chat measurement and mobile with us, you can find more info and RSVP here.

Tin Can API sessions and panels

Tin Can Case Studies for a Brave New World – M111
Mon, May 20 | 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Megan Bowe

Everything You Need to Know About the Experience API (“Tin Can”) – M305
Mon, May 20 | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Megan Bowe, Julie Dirksen, Jason Haag, Clark Quinn, Aaron Silvers

Designing Beyond SCORM: What Is the Tin Can API? – TU101
Tue, May 21 | 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Tim Martin

As you can see, ASTD ICE is going to be full of Tin Can goodness. We hope to see a bunch of you there!

Yes, the 1.0 specification release is today. And yes, all of our tools support it right now. We’ve spent a long time building towards this so that you did not have to wait a single moment for your gratification.

Need an LRS? SCORM Cloud is ready.
Need to make statements? Our Javascript open source library is updated to 1.0.
Would you rather use the statement generator? Go right ahead!
Want to play with prototypes? Tetris, golf, and the museum tour are ready. So is the public sandbox.

Game on.

In advancing our mission to show what you can do today with Tin Can I bring you our latest experiment, Google Hangouts. This was done partially for fun and partially because we at Rustici Software actually use Hangouts a lot for our real work (and fun).

We have two distant remote employees (Me and Ben) most everyone else is in the office regularly or is close enough that they can show up as needed. With how tight we are as a company, we really like talking face to face about things or to just spend lunch watching Tim give Andy a haircut, which is a form of Tim congratulating Andy on a job well done… Referred to as ‘failure to fail.’ You might say it’s a highly personalized reward system. Either way, we all show up to watch the comedy that ensues.

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This is really happening! Tin Can is so close to 1.0 that we can taste it, like Skittles.

It’s been a great year. We handed the .9 version of the specification over to ADL’s working group just over a year ago. We’ve been working closely with this group of diligent and talented people to get to this remarkable milestone.

The official release for the 1.0 specification is April 26th. Today, ADL has made the spec available for public comment. There are open issues and questions on the spec, which is still actively being worked on. For example, we’ve agreed statement signing will be in the spec, it just hasn’t been written yet. The point of putting the spec up for comment now is to gather as much substantial feedback about it as possible. Making it the best it can be (without the ability to predict the future) as a stable 1.0 release.

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I’m very happy to welcome Sean Putman to the blog. Sean is the Director of Training and Documentation at Altair. He has been working on a Tin Can API implementation in their product Hypermesh, it’s freaking sweet! Sean has seen it all, 15 years in training and the last 8 of those in eLearning. Here is his post on Tracking Software Clicks with Tin Can will be up tomorrow, you can find him on twitter @seanputman1, and he blogs regularly here.