Ben Marks Update at Meet Magento New York 2014
Ben Marks shares intent vs. reality of his first six months as Magento evangelist, plus updates on GitHub, docs, and the Magento 2 developer preview.
This keynote from Meet Magento New York 2014 about the state of Ben’s role as Magento evangelist after 6 months on the job, and discussing the Magento community as a whole. Ben is discussing Intent vs Reality of his first 6 months on the job at Magento.
Advisory board - intent - empower core group to work with Magento employees. Reality - Ben is still directly facilitating communication.
Use GitHub like GitHub - intent - use Github for Magento 2 in the proper way. Reality - requires a lot of work & prioritizing; in progress.
Magento Connect - intent - improve functionality and general extension quality. Reality - a lot of work has gone into this already, but there is more to do.
Forums - intent, replacement with something better - reality, in progress, but not there yet.
Translations - intent - remove old tool, replace with crowdsourcing. Reality - in progress, but not there yet.
We will have a monthly community report from Ben to the community soon.
Developer documentation will be on GitHub soon - and it will accept pull requests.
Magento 2 will be in developer preview in December.
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