Community Roundup

Miss me yet?   It's been a busy several weeks here at Liferay so I've been a little absent (not disconnected, just heads down).  We had a very successful showing at the Gartner Portals, Content, and Collaboration Summit in late March.  And we're gearing up for Liferay's annual East Coast Symposium near Washington, D.C. next month (well, really in about 3 weeks!).  I have a whole pocketful of excuses, but for now, onto the links!

• Liferay's annual East Coast Symposium (ECS) in Washington, D.C. starts May 10th.  Along with key Liferay business and technical leaders, for the first time we'll also have community speakers!  Check out the speakers page, and the agenda for more detail.
• The 100 PaperCuts program continues to make great strides in resolving paper cuts.  Sprint 4 began this week.   In sprints 1-3 we have fixed almost 30 papercuts.  If you're interested in joining the team, leave comments below.  It's a great motivator for digging into the Liferay project!
• There's a new community poll on liferay.org - what do you consider key Liferay features?  Not necessarily features that are important to you, but key to Liferay's success.
• The Liferay Community Leadership team had its kickoff meeting last week.  You can follow the team on its forum category. I created an outline and took some notes from the meeting.  The plan is to have quarterly meetings to keep the community informed of the latest developments.  We even got some press coverage!  Christopher of The VAR Guy wrote up some positive comments on this.  If you're interested in joining the team, leave comments below.
• Check out the Liferay Hungary team on their new Facebook page!  I wonder if this will become a pattern for other Liferay offices..
• Rich's Liferay In Action book now has all its chapters.  Great work Rich!  And a great read. 

• eWeek Labs continues to attract reviews on Liferay Portal, with an average score of 8.4!  Many users and industry veterans are commenting on its collaboration, social, and content management features.  If you have some time today, why not add your review?
• CMSWire recently wrote up a piece on enterprise open source, and mentions Liferay.  It's a good read and we'd like to think it contributes to the phenomenal growth Liferay is experiencing!  

• Interested in training on Liferay?  Throughout the months of March and April 2011, get $400 off any US-based training course just for visiting our Facebook Fans page!
• Liferay's enterprise integration capabilities means it is very easy to use your existing investments in software along with Liferay.  e-Spirit recently demonstrated this with an integration of its CMS with Liferay.  Check it out!
• David has a nice writeup of Continuous Integration on Liferay.  Liferay itself uses Jenkins (nee Hudson).
• Rivet Logic keeps getting hits on its Liferay+Alfresco blog.  Pretty sure it's because open source rules and the two leading packages work so well together!
• Random tweet: @andrefsp: #liferay is teaching me how to deal with difficulties and road blocks everyday, thank you for mature me everyday
• Bendiabdallah published a new and very useful portlet.  The Layoutor portlet generates portal pages from a page definition (in a specialized CSV format).  Lots of applications for this - backup and restore, continuous integration, testing, etc.
• Bryan on James Gosling, Igor on Project Structures, Paul on our Gartner PCC Presence, Daniel on Pootle and Liferay Translations, Jonas on RSS Feeds, Ron on Scion Owners and Hochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten (quite a name!), Matt on Themes, Venkata on Drools, Jorge on Organizations and Communities, and finally (whew!) Bryan on A Brief History of Social
• Recent Wiki Updates: Solr, 簡単なインストール, 実運用の基本, 日本語ドキュメント, Liferay IDE vs Liferay Developer Studio,  テーマのカスタマイズ, Javadoc Guidelines, Ajax in Liferay 5,  日本語portal properties 6.0.5, 100 PaperCuts, Weblogic Tips, IPC in Liferay 6, Translation Team (Welcome Milan!), Liferay Hosting Providers, Translating Liferay using Pootle, Configuring Logs, Workflow Definitions, Ext Plugins,  Asset Framework, and finally WSRP.

Finally, look for a new look for the liferay.com website in the coming weeks.  We are in the final stages of upgrading the site to use Liferay 6 and refresh the style.  More importantly, from the community perspective, we'll enable Social Equity and many other features from Liferay 6 you've come to know and love.  Can't wait!