October 2016 SFMUG Meetup - Innovation, Pizza & Beer!!!

With less than 2 months until Black Friday, the start of the 2016 Holiday Shopping Season is just around the corner!

So join us Wednesday October 19, 2016 at AOE's Office just south of San Francisco with your fellow #RealMagento professionals enjoying free pizza, beer/soft drinks & networking opportunities.

We've broadened our focus to include professionals from all areas of Magento and reached out to Project Managers, Product Managers, and even a few "Manager Mangers" so it will at least be a little more interesting than your average meetup...

..and less likely to erupt into a tabs vs. spaces street brawl...probably....

You'll hear the latest updates, see the demos, and walk through the code with the very same innovators who are creating the future of eCommerce at Magento and Key Technology Partners!

The Updated Line Up for October 19, 2016

We are incredibly excited about all of our Speakers and are grateful that Magento, Inc. and Section.io could spare us 3 of their Sr. Leaders to share their knowledge with our group.

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Kevin Hwa - Sr. Product Manager of Magento Marketplace - Magento, Inc. (LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinhwa))

"Magento Marketplace & New Opportunities for Developers"

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Daniel Bartholomew - CTO of section.io (LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-bartholomew-27baa625))

"Redefining Content Delivery Networking

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Chuck Choukalos - Principal Product Manager - Magento 2, Magento, Inc. (LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/charleschoukalos))

"Magento 2 Product Development - A #RealMagento Community Dialog"

Chuck's talk isn't a presentation as much as it's an interactive dialog between on the leaders of the Magento 2 Product Development Team and all of us from the #RealMagento (https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/realmagento) community who can make it to participate and share our experiences and identify particular areas of the Product Development process around Magento 2 where we've run into challenges.

We're including his deck below so you can check it out and see the specific areas where Magento is asking for our input.

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View & Download on SlideShare Right Now! (http://www.slideshare.net/beejhuff/chuck-choukalos-magento-2-product-development-a-realmagento-community-dialog)

AOE has solved a few of these challenges in Magento 1 shared our Open Source extensions and deployment systems & other utilities on our GitHub repository (http://github.com/aoepeople).

We also dedicate our engineering resources to the OpenMage project - a community maintained fork of Magento 1 CE that accepts bug fixes, security updates and tests and back ports patches (http://openmage.org) for versions of Magento even after they've become officially unsupported.

We believe in the #RealMagento (https://twitter.com/hashtag/realmagento) Community and are committed to sharing everything we can with everyone who's interested in developing their professional and technical skills around the platform!

We're hoping you'll join us to share you own experiences with Chuck and start an ongoing dialog where we work with Magento to make sure Magento 2 is the best platform we can Imagine.

Working together is the foundation of why Open Source works and it's part of the very DNA of AOE and a value we hope every one of our Meetup members shares - it's what motivates us to sponsor meetups like these so join us and be a part of the future of Magento and Magento 2!