Worldwide Alfresco 4.0 Community Release Party

You have probably heard that Alfresco 4.0 (formerly known by its codename, “Swift”) will be officially released in the Community edition at the end of September. I’ve been playing with the latest Community code sitting in subversion and I have to tell you that, although there are still plenty of issues to resolve, I’m getting pretty excited about the release.

I know I’m not the only one that’s been looking at 4.0 with building anticipation toward an official release. So here’s what I think we should do. Let’s celebrate. This year, the week of October 10 shall be known as the Week of Worldwide Alfresco 4.0 Community Release Party Meetups! Wherever you are in the world, pick a day that week and get together with 1, 10, or 100 other people and share why you’re excited about 4.0. It doesn’t have to be formal and you don’t have to go to a lot of trouble. Grab Community 4.0 from the download page when it becomes available (or use one of the nightly builds or build it yourself), install it, and give a demo. Or just get a conversation going about favorite new features, when/how you plan to upgrade, or how you are using Alfresco today. Exactly what you talk about doesn’t really matter–the point is to celebrate this major release.

I’ve already spoken to several of the local community organizers around the world and they are totally into it. Madrid, Paris, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Jakarta, The Netherlands, and Southern California are all likely to have events going on the week of October 10 to celebrate. I believe Germany will be doing some virtual meetups online. To help you find these and others that will hopefully be inspired to spring up, refer to this wiki page that lists new or still-forming meetup groups. If you don’t see one there, go to Alfresco Meetups Everywhere and sign up. When another person in your area signs up you can organize a time and a place to meet.

I really want to see this happen. And I know the way to an Alfresco Geek’s heart is through his or her stomach. So if you promote your plan to have a meetup the week of October 10 via Twitter, and then you post pictures of the event on Flickr tagged with “Alfresco”, you can submit your food receipt to me and I’ll reimburse you up to $100. If you plan to take advantage of this you must register your interest with me two weeks prior to your meetup date so I can get you the details. Just shoot an email to jpotts at alfresco dot com with your plans.

I’ll also try to get a “What’s New in Alfresco 4.0” presentation posted, maybe with some screencasts as well, to help with the content.

There you go: A major release of the software to the community, free food, and starter content. The only key ingredients remaining are you, your laptop, and a friend or two. What do you say? Are you in?

11 comments

  1. Daniel Matejka says:

    Hi Jeff,
    nice event :). Im in! Looking forward for Drag&Drop, Thumbnailing and preview of ADOBE formats and Activity integration.. Cant wait.. 🙂

    BTW. I really appreciate that you have become the “Chief of the community” 😉 You have done A LOT for us already..

    All the best
    Daniel

  3. Anders Westman says:

    Very nice!

    Looking forward to get my hands on it, and try things out. Looks very promising.

    Thanks!

    Best regards Anders

  4. JeanJot says:

    Superbe idée, je me suis inscrit à la journée du 06 octobre pour la alfresco IPAD Party à Paris …
    J’attends mon invitation.

    Par contre j’ai une énorme déception, je viens de me rendre compte via la presentation de Paul Hampton – Get ready for Alfresco 4.0 :
    http://www.slideshare.net/alfresco/get-ready-for-alfresco-40
    que l’administration du workflow activity ne sera pas disponible dans Alfresco Community !!!!!

    Activiti est open-source, pourquoi n’est il complètement accessible dans la community ?

    a+

    jeanjot

    In english :

    Great idea, I signed up for the day of 06 October for the IPAD alfresco party in Paris …
    I expect my invitation.

    For cons, I have a huge disappointment, I just realize through the presentation of Paul Hampton – Get ready for Alfresco 4.0:
    http://www.slideshare.net/alfresco/get-ready-for-alfresco-40
    that the administration of workflow activity will not be available in Alfresco Community !!!!!

    Activity is open-source, why is it completely accessible to the community?

  6. jpotts says:

    I don’t know, but I am going to look into it. I’m not sure if this is the case or not but I do know that some things are missing from the admin console in Activiti because they rely on JMX, which is Enterprise-only. That’s something I’d like to see change so I will bring it up at the senior management meeting next week in Maidenhead.

    Jeff

  8. Jaenjot says:

    Merci Jeff pour cette réponse.

    La Communauté te remercie pour les démarches que tu fais pour elle.

    Cordialement.

    jeanjot

    In english

    Thank you Jeff for your answer.

    Community thank you for the steps you do for her.

    Regards.

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