#MagentoMonday Community Digest 2016.11.21

[sherrie]

Happy #MagentoMonday (and early Thanksgiving to those of you in the States)!

ICYMI: Magento 2 turned one last week!

Happy first birthday #Magento2! Thanks to our Magento community for making it a great year. #WeAreMagento pic.twitter.com/RRQKfLxJYD

— Magento (@magento) November 18, 2016

Thanks to all of you who have worked alongside us to grow M2 adoption this past year!

Magento Marketplace EQP Quick Reference

If you haven't seen it, the Magento Marketplace team has put together an Extension Quality Program put together a Quick Reference sheet for you. It should help answer some of your questions around our EQP L1 and L2 reviews.

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.

Recent Podcasts

• Mage2Katas 14. The ORM Entity Kata, by Vinai Kopp (November 19)

Recent Articles

• Product Management: Comparing Magento 1 with Magento 2, by Elliot Toman (November 12)
• Securing System Configuration Data in Magento, by Andrew Smart (November 14)
• [Spanish] Magento 1.9.3.1 (chapa y pintura a nuevos), by Damián Culotta (November 14)
• Observable Arrays and Magento 2 Checkout, by Alan Storm (November 14)
• Tulola Jewelry Goes Global, by Kemana (November 14)
• Improve Your Catalog - A Specialist's Perspective, by Ethan Harmon (November 14)
• ’tis the season! Magento meetup at Aachen Christmas Market, by Sonja Riesterer (November 14)
• Best Development Practices in Magento 2 – Expert Opinions Included, by Wajid Hussain (November 14)
• Funny Because It’s True: 10 of My Favourite Magento Memes, by Rebecca Troth (November 14)
• Being a Magento extrovert is challenging, by Rebecca Troth (November 15)
• How An Ecommerce Software Maker Ended Up Partnering With Amazon, by Tess Bennett (November 15)
• A Magento Meetup with Klevu, by Simon Wharton (November 15)
• [Dutch] Klantcase: hoogste omzet ooit voor Magento shop Divoza.com, by Suzanne (November 15)
• [Spanish] Usando Plugins en Magento2, by Gabriel Guarino (November 15)
• Observables, uiElement Objects, and Variable Tracking, by Alan Storm (November 16)
• Alpine Consulting Launches New eCommerce Website for Dana Rebecca, by Peter Wokwicz (November 16)
• User Acceptance Testing a Magento 2 Site, by Mike Tull (November 16)
• How Magento’s Checkout Application Updates Shipping Rates, by Alan Storm (November 16)
• How To Set Up a Buy-One-Get-One-Free Promotions in Magento 2.0 (Cart Price Rules), by Kelly Mason (November 16)
• Magento 2: Checkout Application Order Placing, by Alan Storm (November 17)
• NomadMage - now FREE* to all Commerce Heroes!, by Phillip Jackson (November 17)
• A Guide to Using Customer Groups in Magento, by Paul Rogers (November 17)
• [French] Découvrir la communauté Magento, by Mattheo (November 17)
• Meet Magento Croatia 2017 – save the dates!, by Ivona Namjesnik (November 17)
• How it Works: Cron Job in Magento 2, by Artsem Miklashevich (November 17)
• Meet Magento World moved to July, by Meet Magento Association (November 17)
• Working with Magento 2 Cache, by Dmytro Cheshun (November 17)
• [German] Magento 2 – Was ist der aktuelle Stand?, by Tim Hahn (November 18)
• How to use the Magento 2 object manager in your unit tests?, by Roman Glushko (November 18)
• Magento 2: Understanding the links default in uiElement Objects, by Alan Storm (November 18)
• Magento 2: Understanding the uiElement observe Method, by Alan Storm (November 18)
• Simone Zuurveld Talks About Magento Development And Future Of Ecommerce, by Fayyaz Khattak (November 18)
• Step by Step Guide to Setting up a Google Shopping Feed in Magento, by Paul Rogers (November 20)
• Promotions: Which to Pick for the Holidays, by Ethan Harmon (November 21)
• How To Upgrade Magento 1.6 To 1.9, by Fayyaz Khattak (November 21)
• Front-end development in Magento 2, by Ben Crook (November 21)
• How to register a theme in Magento 2, by Igor Furseev (November 21)
• [German] Die Vorteile von Magento 2, by Mathias Hermann (November 21)
• Understanding uiElement’s `listens` default, by Alan Storm (November 21)
• How to Grow Your Business Over the Holiday Season, by Andy Barker (November 21)

Recent Events

• Magento Live Australia 2016 – Snippets, by Karthik Chidambaram (November 14)
• Mage Titans MCR – Wow!, by Fabian Schmengler (November 14)
• Reality Adjustment: Why a talk about UI Components changed Scope and Title, by Andreas von Studnitz (November 14)
• Dear Past Self, here are some tips for Mage Titans, by Rebecca Troth (November 14)
• MM16AR - Recap Video - 21 de Octubre 2016 - Golden Center (November 15)
• Sharing is Caring: Mage Titans 2016, by Katherine Kelly (November 15)
• [German] Security-Vortrag bei der MageTitans UK 2016, by Anna Völkl (November 16)
• Mage Titans – a retrospective, by Jessica Truscott (November 18)
• What you missed at Mage Titans MCR 2016!, by Rebecca Troth (November 18)
• Tadhg Bowe talks at Mage Titans developer conference, by Screen Pages (November 18)
• Balance Internet Attends MagentoLive Australia 2016, by Balance Internet (November 20)

Upcoming Events

• Meet Magento Japan in Tokyo on November 22nd.
• 18. Magento Stammtisch - DevOps / SEOkomm in Vienna on November 22nd.
• Magento Stammtisch Leipzig in Leipzig on November 24th.
• M2 Extension Development Knowledge Exchange in Kochi on November 24th.
• Magento Meetup Tokyo in Tokyo on November 24th.
• Magento 1 to Magento 2 Code Migration in York on November 30th.
• 25th Swiss Magento Meetup in Lausanne on November 30th.
• Auckland Magento User Group Meetup - BBQ Edition in Auckland on November 30th.
• December Drinkup Social Event! in Boynton Beach, FL on December 1st.
• 26. Magento-Stammtisch Aachen - Weihnachtsmarktedit­ion in Aachen on December 5th.
• Magento NYC December Meetup in New York on December 5th.
• Happy Birthday Magento 2 Party in Minneapolis on December 6th.
• Make the Internet Faster with Fastly in Los Angeles on December 6th.
• Magento Meetup Manchester in Manchester on December 7th.
• 17. Magento Stammtisch Kiel in Kiel on December 14th.
• NomadMage: Service Contracts and Versioning in Magento 2 with Alan Kent online on December 14th.
• Magento 2 - Saber que los datos in México City on December 15th.
• MUG073: Magento 2 backend in Den Bosch on January 10th.
• 18. Magento Stammtisch Köln in Köln on January 12th.
• NomadMage: Keep Magento Out of Your Magento Extensions: Refactoring to Framework Independent Code wi... online on January 17th.
• 33. Magento Stammtisch Hamburg in Hamburg on January 25th.
• Meet Magento Denmark in Vejle on February 2nd.
• MagentoLive France in Paris on February 6-7th.
• MageTitans Mexico in México City on February 24th.
• Meet Magento Italy in Milan on March 2-3rd.
• Mage Unconference in Cologne on March 3-5th.
• Meet Magento Croatia in Osijek on March 17-18th.
• Magento Imagine in Las Vegas on April 3-5th.

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 our Meetup page for a list of Magento Meetups near you. 

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