#MagentoMonday Community Digest 2016.02.29

[sherrie]

Happy #MagentoMonday! 

First and foremost, we've started announcing the 2016 Magento Masters!

• Movers are Magento’s top advocates and ecosystem thought leaders. Congrats to the 2016 Movers! You can find out who they are, read more about them and why they were selected at: Meet the 2016 Magento Masters: Movers. 
• Mentors help to educate and develop resources for the Magento Community. Congrats to the 2016 Mentors! You can find out who they are, read more about them and why they were selected at: Meet the 2016 Magento Masters: Mentors.
• Makers actively engage with others, sharing ideas, insights, and constructive feedback. We'll be announcing them on our blog tomorrow, March 1st!

If you're new to our forums, welcome! Take a look around, check out our guidelines, and be sure to reach out to me or any of our awesome moderators if you have any questions.

Blogs, Podcasts and Videos

• Video: "Secure input and output handling" in MageTitans IT, by Anna Voelkl (February 23)
• Sorry, we can’t ship there, by Sasa Brankovic (February 23)

• When To Use Traits In Magento 2?, by Nathan McBride (February 23)

• Magento 1.9.2.4 (SUPEE-7405 V1.1), by Damián Culotta (February 24)
• Getting started with theming in Magento 2 – Part 2, by Dan Long (February 24)
• Extending “Contact us” functionality in Magento, by Ivan Bernatovic (February 24)
• Patching SUPEE-7405 v1.1, by Ben Lessani (February 24)
• Please, Please Patch Your Magento Store, by Robert Mangiafico (February 24)
• Magento patch SUPEE-7405 v1.1, by Igor Furseev (February 24)
• Mage Titans Italia - An Overview, by Gabrielle Iskandar (February 25)
• Guidance around replatforming to Magento – interview with Paul Rogers, by Vitaly Gonkov (February 25)
• Step by Step: Setting Up a Frontend Workflow for Magento 2, by Sandro Wagner (February 25)
• Magento 2 New Relic Reporting, by Tomas Novoselic (February 26)
• Magento 1 Admin Category Listing Cheat Sheet, by Rebecca Troth (February 26)
• Reasons to Use or Upgrade to Magento 2.0, by Paul Rogers (February 26)
• Week #4: Sprint 1, Demo 1, Facebook Pixel, by Max Pronko (February 27)
• Event system in Magento 1 vs. Magento 2, by Roman Glushko (February 28)
• Meet Inchooers at MM16IT!, by Ivona Namjesnik (February 29)
• Adding a Static Block to a Category Page in Magento 2.0, by Andrey Dubina (February 29)
• The MageUnconference 2016 in Berlin – an Unusual Community Event, by Sonja Riesterer (February 29)
• MageTalk Episode 82 – “Your Voice Sounds Like it’s Doing the Tango Right Now”, by Phillip Jackson and Kalen Jordan (February 29)
• Magento 2 403 Forbidden Error Fix, by Max Pronko (February 29)
• How to Add Custom Header and Footer Links in Magento 2?, by Gayathri S (February 29)
• Blogger And Developer Damián Culotta Discusses Magento In-Depth, by Fayyaz Khattak (February 29)
• Images optimization in Magento, by Andriy Zhuk (February 29)

Events

• We have a forum group dedicated to Imagine. Introduce yourself to other attendees, make your #RoadtoImagine plans and see what other meetups the community is organizing around the conference. 
• MageUnconference is coming up March 12th-13th in Berlin.
• Do you organize a Magento meetup? Join our Meetup Organizers group here on the forums!

For a full list of upcoming events, be sure to check out our Event Calendar, as well as browsing magento.meetup.com for a list of meetups near you. 

Did I miss anything? Private message me here or reach out on Twitter at @sherrierohde!