In the same week of the Umbarco CodeGarden in Copenhagen, the Orchard CMS project is having its first pan-European Orchard Harvest Conference 2013. June 13 - 14th, 2013 (Thursday - Friday).
The event will be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands at the wonderful Tobacco Theater. We are very excited about this event and look forward to welcoming members of the Orchard Project open source community from across Europe as well as from around the globe.
For more information about the event:
Orchard Harvest - European Conference 2013
Orchard Harvest sessions are focusing on best practices, conversations with core contributors, module development, Web design, as well as several success stories with high volume Web sites and yes – social activities!
You can register on eventbrite.
Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused Content Management System built on the ASP.NET MVC platform already powering sites of many major brands and organizations. Originally created by Microsoft, it is now maintained by the Outercurve Foundation, a non-profit and IP-neutral open source software foundation.
If you haven’t tried Orchard already and would like to join its growing community of users, the current version 1.6 release may be downloaded at: http://www.orchardproject.net/download
Orchard also allows you to build custom modules. It is designed for extensibility with tools that allow developers and customizers to provide additional functionality through modules and themes. An ecosystem of add-ons is forming around Orchard, with over 500 modules and themes available on the gallery, and over 4,000,000 total downloads.
The critical mass of community support that’s forming behind the project has empowered contributors to build extensive new functionality. Version 1.7, which is due in June, introduces a streamlined media manager that integrates slideshows and the ability to easily upload and manage digital content. It will also feature a significant new workflow module to manage publishing tasks that is graphical editor, which is also extensible.