SilverStripe Wellington Meetup Group

SilverStripe Wellington Meetup: SilverStripe CMS v3.0 and more

February 16, 2011 · 5:00 PM
Hotel Bristol

With people in town for Webstock, we thought it would be great time to discuss SilverStripe v3.0 and invite members of our open source community to offer ideas and techniques for building with SilverStripe CMS and Sapphire.

Topics:

SilverStripe CMS and Sapphire v3.0 Overview
Ingo Schommer, Senior Developer at SilverStripe.
Our first public presentation on the goals and features of this upcoming major release, and how we'd love for you to be involved.
SilverStripe as a Business Intelligence System
Cam Findlay
- Ideas covering...
- Basics of Business Intelligence & why the SilverStripe framework is such a good option for building online based information systems and dashboards to help support good decision making.
- Some real world examples of where I have used SilverStripe for these kind of purposes including the business intelligence needs, how SilverStripe and various modules were was used to meet those needs.
- Future projects and modules I hope to begin this year relating to building BI systems with SilverStripe (maybe briefly touch on the ClickTale module I got running last meetup).
Making a SilverStripe site in no time
Tim Klein
- setting up environments quickly
- using css frameworks
- keeping clever, generic snippets
- page elements

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Sigurd Magnusson

Video and audio recording of Ingo's talk on SilverStripe 3.0 plans can be streamed and downloaded from: http://vimeo.com/20075840

0 · February 18, 2011
Sigurd Magnusson

For those interested in seeing Ingo Schommer's slides outlining the SilverStripe CMS and Sapphire 3.0 roadmap, see:
www.prezi.com/lr3lmrgdhlgj/silverstripe-3-roadmap-preview/

The mailing list where you can participate in discussions about the development of SilverStripe CMS 3.0 is here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/...

To track progress, keep an eye on:
http://open.silverstripe.org/wi...

Thanks everyone for coming last night!
- Sigurd

0 · February 17, 2011
Diana Hennessy

I found it really interesting - inspired a lot of ideas for me, great to hear what others are using SS for outside of a straight CMS. Thanks to all involved for it :)

0 · February 17, 2011
Shane Garelja

Great meetup. Tim, Cam and Ingo all presented very well with interesting topics. Looking forward to the next one.

0 · February 17, 2011
Paul Bennett

Good crowd and a number of thought-provoking and interesting speakers. Next time we may need a mic or two (may have been hard for people at the back to hear the speakers some of the time)

0 · February 17, 2011
Cam Findlay

Thanks for having me speak SilverStripe :) Hope it wasn't too conceptual for the high developer demographic at the meetup and everyone learned something.

At least lolcats are universally recognised as appropriate content.

0 · February 17, 2011
Cam Findlay

Lots of good discussions, I think it would have been good to have a mic, or a way to get people in closer to presenters so people could hear better.

0 · February 17, 2011
Simon Eathorne

Informative Meetup looking forward to the next one!

0 · February 17, 2011
Sigurd Magnusson

Thanks Paul, Jon; it's good to get your feedback. This will give us good material to cover for future meetings. We'll be looking to run these throughout the year -- keep the topic suggestions coming, and if you'd like to be a speaker this year, we'd love your support.

0 · February 8, 2011
jon

i'd be interested in how silverstripe handles 'large' sites. one post on the silverstripe forum mentions you'll probably get problems in 'large' - as in over 5000 hits per day... but an page i read said that SS is moving more into this 'large' site arena. what are the best practices, what developments are going on to address any issues, recommended ways of hosting etc...

0 · February 7, 2011
Paul Bennett

Hi Joanna,
As Ingo and WillR will be there I imagine we'll have plenty of technical clout in the room :)

I'd be interested in hearing SilverStripe best-practice advice (general to specific) around things like theme / template structure, page / data type structure, how to create a better user experience for the end-users / content admins, common development problems and how to resolve them, clarification around the best ways to contribute to the core etc.

0 · January 18, 2011
A former member

What would you be interested in learning about at this meetup? We're planning it now, and of course would like to make it as interesting as possible!

0 · January 18, 2011