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Help us spread the word and get Magento nominated for the 2008 Open Source Awards (to be presented in OSCON). From the O’reilly Radar blog:

For the 4th year running, Google and O’Reilly will present a set of Open Source Awards at OSCON 2008. The awards recognize individual contributors who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, and collaboration in the development of Open Source Software. Past recipients for 2005-2007 include Doc Searls, Jeff Waugh, Gerv Markham, Julian Seward, David Heinemeier Hansson, Karl Fogel, David Recordon, and Paul Vixie.

The nomination process is open to the entire open source community, closing May 15th, 2008. Send your nominations to osawards AT oreilly DOT com. Nominations should include the name of the recipient, any associated project/org, suggested title for the award ("Best Hacker”, “Best Community Builder”, etc.), and a description of why you are nominating the individual. Google and O’Reilly employees cannot be nominated.

We are happy to announce that Magento PHPDocs are now available.

Magento PHPDocs can be found here: http://docs.magentocommerce.com/

Varien Lib PHPDocs are also available and can be found here: http://docs.magentocommerce.com/Varien/index.html

We hope you find it useful.

Today we are introducing a new feature in the Magento Community site that visually maps our users. Maps are provided per forum thread (sample), blog post (sample), and a master map of all current users browsing the site.

Magento Community members span the entire globe. We hope this feature brings everyone just a bit closer

The Magento User Guide is here to help you through the process of setting up your store. The User Guide begins with an introduction to installing and configuring the basic settings for your store, and then walks through the steps to configure more advanced settings, setting up your payment modules, creating and editing categories and products and much more.

If you have a specific question on an element within Magento you can skip to the chapter within the User Guide using the table of contents. If you are just getting started it is best to go through the User Guide chapter by chapter to walk you through the process of configuring your store.

This User Guide is a Wiki, and as such, you should feel free to edit and add elements as you see fit.

In the next few weeks, the Magento User Guide will be available as a book in print and ebook formats.

The latest Magento release included a bug that was found today.

The bug will cause products to be deleted completely from the system when a frontend customer adds items to compare products and then clears all selections.

This bug was found in the latest Magento release, Version 1.0.19700, and is not known to affect version 1.0.

It is high priority for all people using Magento 1.0.19700, or who have upgraded to Magento 1.0.19700, to install this Patch.

Installing the patch:

1. Download either the zip file: patch1_1.0.19700.zip or the tar.gz file patch1_1.0.19700.tar.gz

2. Extract and upload the file CompareController.php or extract directly the archives to app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/controllers/Product/

Our first Community Meetup in Frankfurt, Germany was a smashing success! It was absolutely wonderful to meet the community and our partners face to face and take part in a lively discussion about Magento’s past and future.

A special thank to Rico (AKA Rizi) for the help in coordinating the event.

More photos on flickr (thanks Rico for sharing some photos)

Magento Partner On Tap Datahost will be at Internet World April 29th-May 1st, taking place in London, and will be providing demonstrations of Magento.

If you are attending make sure to stop by Stand E107 to see On Tap Datahost and their Magento Demos.

Crucial Web Hosting has announced the availability of a one-click installer for Magento for their Magento Containers.

Magento Containers now comes with a one-click installer for Magento. You can install Magento, with or without store sample data, in minutes by accessing your site’s control panel.

There is also a screencast showcasing the one-click installer, which can be viewed on the Crucial Web Hosting site.

php|architect’s Guide to Programming with Magento takes you from installation to deployment of this popular e-commerce open source software. Magento’s flexibility and Zend Framework-based structure have made it an increasingly popular e-commerce solution ... The book will be available in PDF format on May 15, 2008, and in print format on May 31, 2008

More information can be found on php|architect’s website

We are happy to announce our first European Meetup in Frankfurt, Germany (details below). The meeting will be an informal get together and a chance to meet face to face with the Magento German community. We will also also discuss product direction / strategy and issues pertaining to the German market.

Date: April 28th, 2008
Time: 8:30 PM (20:30)
Location: Innside Premium Hotels Frankfurt Niederrad (we’ll be meeting at the bar)
In Attendance: Roy Rubin, Peter Kaminski

If you’d like to schedule a meeting outside of the meetup to discuss business opportunities, please contact me directly.

This is the first of a number of events we’ll be holding across the world in 2008. Stay tuned for further announcements

Magento’s first developer focused training class, Developing with Magento, is now completely sold out. The next class will take place on May 6 and run until May 29. These classes are timed to start at 6PM Eastern Daylight Time, perfect for after-work attendance in North America and daytime attendance in the Asia-Pacific region.

To learn more about Magento’s training program, visit our training page.

Date: May 20-22, 2008
Location: Sydney, Australia
Session: Filling in the Open Source Shopping Cart Vacuum

After years of e-Commerce system experience and design, 2007 has seen Magento e-Commerce, a state-of-the-art, Open Source e-Commerce platform released by Varien. Since initial release it has been downloaded over 200,000 times, and still counting! Roy will speak on the strategy that positioned Varien as one of the most promising Internet companies…

Date: June 9-12, 2008
Location: Chicago, IL
Booth: #643

The Internet Retailer 2008 Conference & Exhibition is not only the world’s largest e-retailing conference, it is one of America’s fastest growing conferences ... Because of its size and scope the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition brings together representatives of hundreds of retail, catalog, manufacturing and consumer service companies that specialize in e-retailing. Virtually all of the Top 500 e-retailers attend as well as hundreds of smaller players that fall outside this prestigious group.