UPDATE: Corrected the Alfresco Summit dates which have changed since this was posted

In case you missed last week’s live Alfresco office hours, here is the re-play:

And here are my notes from the session…

Follow-up items from last office hours

• Vagrant script for Alfresco
• We have now added specific RSS feeds for each category of blogs
• Alfresco Test Drive
• “Put this in core” button for Add-Ons has been added to the backlog in Jira.

Worldwide, Virtual Hack-a-thon is happening May 9

• Sign up on the wiki
• Alfresco team members in all three regions will participate
• 24 hours

Sign-up for the Alfresco quarterly community newsletter. The next one should be coming out in March.

The new Alfresco Community Landing Page should be live on www.alfresco.com by the end of this week.

IRC improvements

• Join the live conversation at #alfresco on freenode IRC
• The chat room is now logged
• We’ll move the logs to an Alfresco server and domain at some point

Kicking off the Alfresco Community Profile project

• At a minimum, will provide the ability to use the same credentials for all Alfresco community properties
• Vision is to use it as each community member’s “face” to the rest of the community

Community translations going strong

• Get started by reading this wiki page
• Work on a community-contributed language pack at CrowdIn
• File patches for officially supported language packs in Jira

The last of the ECM Architect tutorials that still needs a revision (Advanced Workflows) is almost done

• Tutorials now use Alfresco Maven SDK
• Tutorials now produce AMPs instead of using the overlay approach
• All references to old technologies such as Alfresco Explorer, the native Alfresco Web Services API, and jBPM have been removed.
• Tutorial text and source code are on GitHub

Alfresco Summit Save-the-Date:

• Two months earlier
• EMEA: 9/9, 9/10, 9/11 in London Alfresco Summit EMEA
  October 7, 8, & 9 (T, W, R) in London
  
• Americas: 9/23, 9/24, 9/25 in San FranciscoAlfresco Summit Americas
  September 22, 23, & 24 (M, T, W) in San Francisco
• Shorter: Two days (plus the optional workshop day), otherwise roughly the same format
• Call for papers coming soon

The next Alfresco Office Hours will be March 21. The next Tech Talk Live is March 5. We’ll be reviewing several projects that were created as a result of the Alfresco Summit Hack-a-Thon back in November.