Technology Services Group held the first Alfresco User Group Meeting last Thursday at out offices. Thanks to those that attended. It was great to see others in the Chicago area that are passionate and excited about the Alfresco platform and the possibilities it provides. The meeting provided a more casual way to interact with fellow Alfrescans, over pizza and beer of course! A special thanks to Jeff Potts for making the trip to help kick things off. Jeff provided a great overview of the Alfresco Community, including the recently announced site, http://addons.alfresco.com, which just came out of beta. Jeff also demoed various community-developed adding on the Alfresco 4 platform, including the JavaScript Console and Google Map integration.  Look for TSG to add its open source Alfresco offerings to the site this week.

We were also able to get dive in a couple of case studies from Highland Park Library, NY Philharmonic, and the United Cerebral Palsy of Chicago. The forum provided the opportunity to take a deeper dive into how these solutions were implemented.

We’ll plan on making the user group meetings a quarterly event. Look for another meetup in early June. Please register at the meetup site to become a local member and to get announcements on upcoming meetups.