At Magento we believe in an empowered community that directly participates in the success and iterative innovation of the platform. Learn how community contributions have made the Magento platform more robust, more responsive, and more extensible – hear some success stories from the field and discover how to accelerate your contributions and get your attribution. Hear about new open source initiatives at Magento, gain insights into our development activity and roadmap, and join the shared vision that is our open source Magento ecosystem.

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We have had incredible community support
with over 6,000 contributions between pull
requests and issue reports. This makes
Magento 2 a stronger platform.

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About Me
Vice President of Technology, Magento Commerce
since April, 2016
Responsible for engineering, quality, operations,
PMO, user experience, design and technical
documentation
Almost 20 years of ecommerce and software
development experience
Based in Austin, Texas
BBA University of Texas (Hook ‘Em!)
MBA Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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ENABLEMENT
The care and feeding of an engaged community

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Democratization requires transparency,
participation and openness.

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Transparency mandates a meaningful
divulgence of future work streams, direct
insight into in-flight engineering efforts, and
active outreach.

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Magento 2 Merchant Beta

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Magento 2.1 Release Candidate

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Magento 2 B2B Alpha
B2B

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What about the lessons of today, the
insights into right now?
SUPEE-8788

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Intentional iteration results in continuous
improvement. We listen, learn and cycle at
every opportunity.
We value diversity of perspective and
champion community contributions.

12. Boatload of pull requests

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We can and will improve our community
engagement, and open source
collaboration, which will accelerate issue
throughput

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Denis Ristic identified a
challenge with static asset
deployment so he made it
better and we agreed

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Pull requests are not the only way to
contribute. Our open philosophy extends to
Tech Docs, How-To Guides and Best
Practices

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What’s next?
Component-level activity heat maps
Active outreach
More Alpha!

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Automation

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We will implement rational
automation that results in
trustworthy analysis

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