The core modules development team had the first meeting to discuss the future of the core modules. We have decided on having a meeting every two weeks and we will post the meetings videos on this blog for everyone to be able to follow on the progress of this project.

Anyone that want to attend to those meetings is welcome to do so following this link: https://zoom.us/j/388133636 The next meeting will be on July 19^th 3PM EST and then same day and time each 2 weeks. If you would like to be notified, please comment below with your email so that I can add you to the calendar event.

En los últimos meses he notado un aumento en el número de clientes que desean actualizar DNN, que a menudo se enfrentan a módulos incompatibles debido a cambios en la plataforma. Y cuanto más antiguo es el módulo, más posibilidades tiene de verse afectado por los cambios. Lamentablemente, no podemos hacer mucho con los módulos de terceros, pero creo que nadie debería verse bloqueado para actualizar por causa de alguno de los módulos que se incluían antes con DNN. Después de pensarlo, decidí tomar la iniciativa y me puse como objetivo que todos los viejos módulos "core" funcionaran en DNN v9.2. Como imaginarán, esta no es una tarea que se logre de la noche a la mañana, pero he progresado mucho. Varios módulos ya están al día y creo que esto ha generado una nueva ola de motivación entre los desarrolladores de la comunidad DNN.

As you most likely know, there has been a lot of change lately within the DNN Community. The good news is that the change is positive! The focus on the community driving and return to true open source is real and today we’re announcing a new CLA process that should make things a lot easier for everyone to contribute.

The DNN MVP Program has been refreshed and we are excited to share the updates with you. MVP’s are the DNN Community’s leaders and we are happy to be able to recognize individuals who go above and beyond contributing in various ways to the community. This year we are recognizing some special people as part of the updates plus we are opening nominations for this year’s DNN MVPs.

What's old is new again! Command line tools have recently become all the rage. What if you didn't have to use Visual Studio to develop a DNN module? What if you didn't have to remember all the structure that goes along with a DNN Module? Well now you don't have to worry about any of that. Simply use generator-dnn!

generator-dnn is a Yeoman plugin to scaffold out DNN Modules. You simply run the command yo dnn and answer a few questions. Based on your answers the structure for a module is created and you can start coding. This works completely from the command line and has no dependency on Visual Studio. Over the years there has been a trend to move towards command line tools and code editors instead of using full-blown IDEs.

The DNN Technology Ecosystem Advisory Group continues to meet on a weekly basis mapping out the future of DNN. The meeting videos are shared here in blog entries so that everyone can see the progress being made and conversations occurring in the group. This June 26th, 2018 meeting entailed in-depth discussion on the persona bar + a demonstration of Liquid Content followed by some architectural discussions of implementing liquid content into the platform.

I would like to start regular meetings for everyone interested in discussing the development and modernization of the old Dnn core modules.

If you are interested in joining this first meeting, please note this url and click it a few minutes before the meeting to make sure your audio settings are correct. https://zoom.us/j/416853470

The meeting will be at 3PM EDT (19:00 GMT) on July 5th 2018

This month we were joined by Daniel Valadas who has been putting a tremendous amount of work into reviving the old Community/Core modules to get them to work on DNN v9.2. We were also joined by Mitchel Sellers who is leading the DNN Technology group. Mitchel provided a lot of insight into the direction of things moving forward.

In the recent months I have noticed a increase in the number of clients that want to upgrade Dnn, they are often faced with modules that break due to breaking changes in the platform. And the older the module, the more chances it has of being affected. Unfortunately, we cannot do much for third party modules, but I feel nobody should be blocked from upgrading because of a module that was formerly included with Dnn. After thinking about it, I decided to take initiative and made it my goal to make all the old “core” modules work on DNN v9.2. As you would imagine this is not a task that is achieved overnight, but I’ve made good progress. Several modules are already current and in doing so, I think it fired up a new wave of motivation within the Dnn Community Developers!

The DNN Technology Ecosystem Advisory Group continues to meet on a weekly basis mapping out the future of DNN. The meeting videos are shared here in blog entries so that everyone can see the progress being made and conversations occurring in the group. This June 19th, 2018 meeting saw some great discussion around upcoming releases, build automation, pull-requests, and processes.