Welcome to the Alfresco Users Group, Meeting Recap

[resplin]

I enjoyed seeing you at our meeting today, and I am excited about how
many said they would be interested in participating on this list.
Thank you again to Eric and the team at the Church of Jesus Christ ICS
department for providing a great meeting room, audio-visual equipment,
web conferencing, drinks and snacks.

Here is a summary of what we covered with the links I promised.

Meetings
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We plan on meeting at 11 AM on the last Friday of the month that
starts each calendar quarter (January, April, July, October).

Meetings are being organized with the help of Meetups.com:
http://www.meetup.com/Alfresco/Salt-Lake-City-UT/

Our next meeting will be Friday, April 27 at 11AM and Tyler Cooper
volunteered to present on his team's use of Alfresco.

If any specific meeting date, time, or location seems inconvenient for
the group, please propose an alternative.

There are also two additional local Alfresco themed meetings in
February.

* I will be presenting on building content-centric applications (read:
CMIS basics) to the Provo Linux Users Group on Wed, February 8 at
7:30PM. Meet at the C7 office in Lindon ( 357 South 670 West, Suite
100 Lindon, UT 84042).

* The Salt Lake City Lunch and Learn hosted by Tribloom on February
29. Register to attend here:
http://www.alfresco.com/about/events/2012/01/lunch-learns/

Mailing List
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The mailing list is currently open to anyone who wants to participate.
To prevent spam, in a few weeks I will likely need to turn on
moderator approval for new members to post. If we have a couple of
moderators, it should be pretty quick to approve new members. Any
volunteers to moderate?

Community Tools for Learning Alfresco
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Getting Started Page:
http://www.alfresco.com/resources/documentation/getting-started/

Docs:
http://docs.alfresco.com/4.0/index.jsp

Wiki:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Main_Page
There is a current community effort to re-organize the wiki. You can
get more information from this Google Group:
https://groups.google.com/group/alfresco-wiki-gardeners

IRC:
There is an active IRC channel at #alfresco on Freenode.
http://webchat.freenode.net?channels=alfresco&uio=d4

Forums:
https://forums.alfresco.com/en/

Add-ons:
http://addons.alfresco.com

Solutions Showcase:
http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/solutions/

Tech Talk Live:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Live

DevCon:
http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/devcon/

Other Discussion Topics
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* What is new in 4.0 (will get more of this at the Lunch and Learn, as
well as Cloud),
* 4.0 performance benchmarks,
* Dropbox Integration
* Importing content with the Bulk Import Tool
* How the docs on content modeling need to be improved

I am looking forward to our next meetup already!

Cheers,

Richard Esplin