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Hello. I'm Brian Boyko, and I'm one of SilverStripe's newer hires. They brought me on board in mid-May as the company's full-time writer. I'm responsible for anything that involves the written word. And since blog posts, forum notices, and tweets all involve the written word, I'm working on those things...

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We've created a new RSS feed so you can be a part of the steady stream of new SilverStripe powered websites added each day:

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Late last year, Google launched a global software contest for highschool students called the Google Highly Open Participation (GHOP) contest. The contest boasted some impressive statistics: nearly 400 students around the world contributed a total of about 1000 tasks for ten software projects over a very busy two-month period.

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Becoming a valuable community member of SilverStripe is really easy: just read the How To Contribute section of the community pages, and if you are still unsure, suggest some ideas on the forum and have the community delegate tasks and work with you! There are all sorts of ways to...

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We've now added a form to submit your widgets so that they feature on our widgets download page.

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We've made some improvements to the online infrastructure that runs the SilverStripe community.

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With our first release still as recent as February, the community of people around SilverStripe is still fresh and young. There's been awesome community collaboration in the few months since, but there's still plenty of opportunity for talented and committed individuals to become significant, highly visible contributors to SilverStripe.

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Starting in one week, Friday 9th November, we're making a commitment to have several of the core developers of SilverStripe available on Internet Relay Chat (IRC) for an hour each week, so that you can ask questions, get support, and find out what's new.

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We've just made it possible to members of the forum to add websites to their profile, so that we can build up a SilverStripe site showcase. We look forward to seeing some great work up there which we can showcase on our blog and newsletter...

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