the Umbraco Community

The Umbraco community’s biggest event of the year, Codegarden in Odense, Denmark, has pretty much everything – from A as in Awards to M as in “Mindful Morning Meditation” to W as in Workshops. In addition to the over 40 sessions, Codegarden offers its visitor a lot. And by that we not only mean the technical gain, but also the many smaller and larger interpersonal moments with the Umbraco community, which is the heart of Codegarden – the heart of Umbraco.

Now, before the byte5 team, as part of this community, makes their way to Odense next week, we asked some of the byte5-ers particularly appreciate about the Umbraco community. We interviewed seven team members – three developers, a web designer, a financial accountant, an editor and the company founder himself. They all have come across Umbraco in one form or another, for different amounts of time and yet have one thing in common: They are enthusiastic about its community. Here they share their personal favourite experiences.

Theresa has been Umbraco-Dev for six years and has been on the Codegarden stage as a speaker herself.

Patricia has been the heart of the back office for nine months now and has just met the Umbraco community for the first time.

Tobias has been working with the CMS as an Umbraco-certified web designer for five and a half years.

Christian is a community veteran, the byte5 founder and a developer all in one person.

Lukas has been working with Umbraco as a developer for three years and is the author of an article in the Advent calendar 24 Days in Umbraco.

Laura has been using Umbraco as an editor for a year. She also organises Umbraco Festival Deutschland.

As the byte5 CTO, Marcel knows Umbraco like the back of his hand. He is also a core contributor.

We are so excited to travel to Odense for Codegarden next week! We are looking forward to meeting old friends, meeting new people and meeting a diverse community that really lives the open-source character with their respect, tolerance and openness.

We are also excited to meet this great community five times this year! In addition to our own Umbraco Festival Deutschland which took place three weeks ago and Codegarden which will go down next week, the byte5 team will also travel to Umbraco Poland Festival in September, the Dutch DUUGfest in October and to Umbraco UK Festival in November. Of course, you can read about our adventures here on our blog.

If you will also be at Codegarden: see you there! If you stay at home this time, you will of course find everything you missed right here on our blog in our recap. We will also report live from Codegarden on our Twitter account.