Mage-OS February Update

Association News

  • Welcome to our newest partners and members!

  • Partners

    • Silver Partners
  • Members

    • Professional Members

      • Rick Willett
      • Simon Sprankel
      • Tomislav Bilic

    • Community Members

      • Vivek
      • Alex Teller
      • Divyesh Thadani
      • Sanjay Chaudhary
      • Niels Kolijn
      • Andrzej Szylar

  • You too can become a Mage-OS member, for as little as 10 EUR/year! Show your support, and show the world this is something worth supporting. mage-os.org/about/mage-os-membership/

Local Initiatives

  • Mage-OS Nederland had its second annual member meeting on Feb 29th. Look for a detailed update on it soon! Mage-OS NL will be setting up committees (MMNL, events, content) to push different aspects of the community. More information can be found here: nl.mage-os.org/

  • David Lambauer and Thorben Höhn have started a German-language podcast about Mage-OS and what’s going on around it. You can find the first episode and subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA28nKbnKeskROMmMqhhxwxPeNaA9N8jf 

Development Progress

  • The recent Magento security patch 2.4.6-p4 is available from our Magento mirror repository. Look for a new Mage-OS Distribution release soon including these fixes.

  • Artem Kozynets has completed the first round of UAT feedback sessions for his new admin theme concept, and is starting round 2 soon. Thank you for everyone who put their hands up to participate!

  • Vladyslav Podorozhnyi, Ihor Sviziev, and Maksym Novik have been doing great work on fixes to the integration testing suite, so that we can do reliable testing of pull requests in the near future!

  • Thijs Feryn and Toon Van Dooren have been working on improvements to the default VCL configurations, to improve the baseline FPC performance of all Magento/Mage-OS sites using Varnish caching.

  • Ryan Sun has been working on AI content generation, and will be looking for contributor help soon. Stay tuned for more.

Opportunities

  • If you want to participate in admin theme UAT testing, please fill out this form by March 8: https://forms.gle/wdTi5X2xhZXVtjqc9

  • Have a contribution idea or interested in the Mage-OS Distribution? Join our weekly tech meetings, public on Discord at 3 PM CET/2 PM UTC / 9 AM EST every Tuesday: chat.mage-os.org

  • Want to help promote Magento and Mage-OS? Join our weekly marketing meeting, public on Discord at 4 PM CET/3 PM UTC / 10 AM EST every Monday: chat.mage-os.org

  • Magento Association is creating a new content site for magento-opensource.com, and our content committee is working right now to plan and build that out. Talk to John Hughes if you’re interested.

  • We’re looking for new features to enhance Mage-OS this year that will help to modernize and excite merchants. This might include AI enhancements, low/no code processes, or more. Talk to Vinai Kopp or #tech if you’re interested!

Events

  • We have an updated events page! It’s now easier than ever to find all the events and gatherings in the worldwide Magento community. Please let us know if you have or know of an event that isn’t listed. Huge thanks to Marek Kubacak for making this happen.

  • Upcoming events: