Annual Reflection...

Christmas 2009 - I am just sitting at my father’s desk, looking at the picturesque landscape of the Teutoburg Forest in Winter (see picture below) and am reflecting about the year, which (nearly) has passed: Besides my ongoing contribution to the DotNetNuke Core Team and Extension Release Testing, a number of new activities have been started to benefit the DotNetNuke community. One of my main focuses was on setting up the European Network of DotNetNuke Professionals (www.dnn-europe.net) where we had already two meetings in 2009 with substantial discussions on localization, ecommerce, marketing and collaboration. One of the results will be a European DotNetNuke Event on May, 28th in Paris at the Microsoft Convention Center – details will follow!

Another recent activity produced a first result today as a gift to the DotNetNuke community: Our Advanced Control Panel is a first result of a joint effort from Oliver Hine and me, trying to improve administration and usability of DotNetNuke – give it a try!
We are already working on further enhancements for future releases in 2010.

As you can see – 2010 shall become an exciting year as well - for now, I’d like to thank all the core team and community members for their contribution and dedication, we benefited from.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!