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Product Evangelist

This past summer there was a thread in the forums titled The State of EE. We see these threads occasionally, and we encourage them. We learn quite a bit about the communities’ desires from them. But in this particular one, Mike Hughes stated the following:

One thing I feel EllisLab and EE would benefit from is having a Product Evangelist. Everyone knows that anyone that has used EE swears up and down by it (for the most part) but that’s not necessarily the Product Evangelist I’m...

ExpressionEngine Reactor, For Developers by Developers

It’s our pleasure to formally introduce the ExpressionEngine Reactor team to the Community. In a nutshell, the EE Reactor team is a group of devs who can contribute directly to ExpressionEngine using a system modeled off Open Source contributions. For EllisLab, it is modeled from the CodeIgniter Reactor team. We’ll go into more detail about what EE Reactor is but first let’s meet the team.

Greg Ferrell, Solspace.com
Leevi Graham, Newism & EE-Garage
Brian Litzinger, BoldMinded & The...

New Job Opening: Customer Advocate

EllisLab is a web application company devoted to making our users’ online lives better with powerful software that solves real-world problems. Our Customer Advocates are a team of friendly, customer-focused people who help our Community succeed with our world-class web publishing platforms ExpressionEngine and MojoMotor.

Read the full job posting.

ExpressionEngine 1.x, End of Public Support Announcement

We have two important announcements regarding ExpressionEngine 1.x.

First, as of December 5th, 2011, ExpressionEngine 1.x will no longer be included as a license option for new purchases. If you absolutely must start projects on EE 1.x, please .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Seeking Customer Focused Designer

EllisLab is looking for a full-time production designer and developer to work on a wide variety of amazing projects, from ExpressionEngine to the EllisLab family of websites, and a bunch of fun things in between. The position provides variety and experience to help you grow and hone your craft.

We need someone with the following traits.

• Customer Focused.
• Solid Front End Development skills.
• Solid Visual Design skills.
• Desire to help make the web better.

Sound like you? Good, let’s...

A Delighter for Pro Net Members

This is a short post that will delight close to 300 of our community members. Something that we have long wanted to provide our Pro Net members with is an easy way to update their Pro Net listing information. Well, as of today you have the ability to update your information by going to your listing page and clicking on the ‘Edit this Listing’ link in the lower left hand corner.

I have tried to associate the author of the entry with user accounts where I could, but there is a chance...

ExpressionEngine 2.3 Update, Improved Release Schedule

When I took over as CEO, two of my highest priorities were to change our internal development process so we could have a predictable release schedule and to improve the stability of our releases. We’ve seen definite improvement in both those areas this year, especially if you compare 2.1.x to 2.2.x. What follows is a summary of what we’ve learned so far and how we’re using that to improve.

At this point in time, we can do things internally as a company that we’ve never been successful...