Live from Umbraco in the City Manchester!

About this episode

The episode features a live discussion about contributions to the Umbraco CMS at a community event in Manchester.

All four of us were together in-person - for the first time over two years - at Umbraco in the City, a community-organised event in Manchester. We talked about what contributions look like to a mature open-source product with a team of full time engineers working on the codebase. Are code contributions still the “gold-standard”, were they ever? We discuss this and what other types of contrubitions make a meaningful difference to the Umbraco CMS in front of a wonderful live audience. Thanks to our guests - Michael Latouche, Paul Seal and our new best friend Kieron McIntyre - for taking the microphone and sharing their contribution stories. High five to them and the audience, we had a lot of fun! Links Umbraco in the City Core collabs team page Paul Seal’s starter kit , and post about the PR from Andy UMB.FYI Umbraco Spark

People in this episode

Guests: Michael Latouche, Paul Seal, Kieron McIntyre

Topics covered

• open-source contributions
• Umbraco CMS
• community events
• code contributions
• engineering teams
• live audience discussions

Keywords

• open-source
• contributions
• Umbraco
• CMS
• engineering
• community
• live event

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Umbraco

Places: Manchester

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