In the month of May we saw some interesting discussions surrounding the future of Alfresco Community edition.
Things heated up when a post in the Order of the Bee threads accused Alfresco of misrepresenting Alfresco Community edition in a comparison against Alfresco Enterprise edition.
You can follow the conversation and read what happened here.
http://www.xtreamlab.net/pipermail/ootb-hive/2015-May/000494.html
As strong believers and supporters of Alfresco Community edition, we think the following blog post is a must read for anyone who reads more about open source and commercial software licensing.
What we mean by “no gimmicks” open-source licensing – (2011, April 4) Jonathan Marsh - WSO2
http://wso2.com/blogs/thesource/2011/04/what-we-mean-by-no-gimmicks-open-source-licensing/
Here you can find the other interesting blog posts and tutorials that were posted within the month of May.
Announcements and Blog Posts
- Aikau Update, May 2015
http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/developer/2015/05/12/aikau-update-may-2015/ - Alfresco SDK 2.1 is announced.
http://mindthegab.com/2015/05/22/take-your-alfresco-productivity-to-the-next-level-with-the-alfresco-sdk-2-1-0/ - Alfresco Audit Analysis and Reporting add-on is updated to version 3.1 and brings support for documents, folders, audit trail, workflow analysis and custom metadata.
http://fcorti.com/2015/05/25/aaar-3-1-alfresco-analytics/ - Alfresco Business Reporting Module update brings better performance.
https://tpeelen.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/new-version-of-alfresco-business-reporting-improves-performance/
The project is also moved to GitHub due to the pending Google Code shutdown.
https://tpeelen.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/alfresco-business-reporting-on-the-move/
Tutorials
- Share Header Color Customization -- Dave Draper
http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/developer/2015/05/19/share-header-colour-customization/ - Alfresco 5.0.a installation tutorial updated by Francesco Corti.
http://fcorti.com/2015/05/18/review-alfresco-5-0-a-installation-tutorial/
Updates from Loftux:
- We have updated our Alfresco Share Themes package to support the latest updates from Bootswatch.
- Zoomable add-on, which enables serving of high-resolution digital images now supports real-time rotation of images in the viewer.
Last, a dose of humor from ContentReich showing how different stakeholders in Alfresco Community (not the Community edition) view each other and themselves.
- Newbie guide to Alfresco Parties (ContentReich)
http://www.contentreich.de/newbie-guide-to-alfresco-parties
Note: To make it full circle, this should be updated to include an Enterprise edition users column.
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Cheers!
You can find links to previous editions of Alfresco Monthly below.
- Alfresco Monthly: April 2015
- Alfresco Monthly: March 2015
- Alfresco Monthly: February 2015
- Alfresco Monthly: January 2015
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