The SugarForge Newsletter for Sugar Developers
 March 28, 2007
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 IN THIS ISSUE *Global Developer Conference *Sugar Developer Newswire

Global Developer Conference

We are excited to host the Sugar Global Developer Conference, to be held in San Jose, CA on May 3-5th. Come join your fellow developers, partners, Sugar Team members and community members for two intense days of workshops, keynote speeches, and hands-on learning, followed by the Cat's Hill Classic bike race on Saturday.

Reserve your spot today! Early Bird registration closes April 1st; after that date, the price goes up.

Sugar Developer Newswire

  • We hit our 3 Millionth download of All Things Sugar on March 21st! Congratulations to Dusty Miller of Spokane, WA for correctly guessing the closest date and time for this event. Dusty is the proud owner of a SugarCRM coffee mug for his efforts.
  • Congratulations to Max Blackmer for successfully hosting the first-ever in-person Sugar Developers User Group in Chicago earlier this month. We're waiting on others to step up and co-host events. Sugar provides logistical support.
  • Speaking of Max, the next SDUG Online meeting is April 4th at 10AM PDT, and features a reprise of Max's presentation from the Chicago meeting. Max will lead a session on customizing with Studio, using an example of a ticket tracking system. Register for this informative event!
  • And speaking of other User Groups, Markku Suominen will be hosting the first SugarDay Helsinki (Finland) on April 25, 2007. The event is sponsored by Antamis with the cooperation of Centre for Open Source Software Finland. Sugar co-founder Clint Oram will be the featured guest speaker. Other activities include learning about case studies, upcoming features, and best practices, along with time for networking and sessions on building SugarCRM components.
  • Sugar University has published the new Spring Schedule. Highlights include Email Campaign Management and Web-to-Lead form workshops.
  • The next product feature we're unveiling in the Community Preview is the Knowledge Base. Learn more information about this  feature in this forum thread. (Available only in Sugar Professional and Enterprise Editions).
  • SugarCRM is hiring! We have plenty of open positions, both in our Cupertino CA office and around the world. Check out the "Careers" section of the Sugarcrm.com website for details.

Yahoo-Sugar Coding Contest


Sign up for the Yahoo-Sugar Coding contest, being held during the month of April. We have cash prizes totaling $3000 for the most Magnificent Module, the most Dashing Dashlet, and the most creative use of YUI within Sugar. Winners will be announced during the Global Developer Conference on May 3-5.

Module Builder is April's Project of the Month

This month we feature the Module Builder from Olavo Farias. The project allows you to automate the process required to build a new SugarCRM module using templates for: module name, directory, table and object name, admin panel and menu, Search, Detail, Edit Views, and SubPanels.

For more information, please visit the project of the month page. 

Sugar Adoption Program

The Sugar Adoption Program helps you kickstart your implementation. It is based on best practices learned from over 1200 commercial customers ranging from small businesses to the Fortune 50, and with many thousands of open-source implementations. The adoption program guidance and checklist is a free service to you!

For more information on the Sugar Adoption Program, please consult our website. If you would like to receive future communications on this topic, please send a note to this email address.

- The SugarForge Team


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