Cream’s Magento community year in review
With 2019 officially underway, we’re taking a look back at 2018. It was a fantastic year for Cream, packed with highlights. Building great projects for our clients matters to us, but so does contributing to the Magento ecosystem as a whole. Because that work isn’t always visible, here’s a rundown of our 2018 highlights.
Magento Community Insider
In 2018, Cream joined the Magento Community Insider Program. The program formalizes our relationship with Magento and gives us direct contacts within the company. Through it, we also have ongoing access to the latest information Magento shares only with its partners.
Magento Master
In 2018, Magento named our colleague Danny Verkade a Magento Master. He received the award from Magento CEO Mark Lavelle during the keynote at the Magento Imagine conference in Las Vegas.
Magento Certification Advisory Board
Experienced Magento professionals validate their skills by earning one or more certifications. This year, members of the Cream team helped create two different exams for these certifications. Edwin Bos traveled to Boston to help develop the Magento 2 Certified Professional Frontend Developer exam, while Julian van Drielen helped build the Magento 2 Professional Developer Plus exam in London.
Magento Association Task Force
During the keynote at MagentoLive Europe 2018 in Barcelona, Magento shared an update on the Magento Association, the new independent nonprofit announced earlier this year at the Magento Imagine 2018 conference in Las Vegas. A task force has been set up to help get the association off the ground, and Magento asked our colleague Danny Verkade to join it, along with six other members of the Magento community.
Community events & code
We joined three Dutchento podcasts to discuss a range of Magento topics. Right after Adobe acquired Magento, we took part in a livestream about the acquisition and what it could mean for the platform. We also organized two meetups. The first, held in Rotterdam shortly after the Magento Imagine conference, gave us a chance to share the latest news with the Dutch Magento community. The second took place in New York, where around 40 members of the local Magento community showed up.
Cream also contributes directly to the Magento codebase. In 2018, Magento accepted a total of 43 code improvements we proposed, and those changes have since made their way into the releases that came out over the past year.
