Last year we decided to take a little more ownership of our destiny so we created "RefreshCache," the free two day event for church developer teams that use the Arena ChMS platform. We're doing it again, but this year we're breaking the ice with pre-event social and hack-night on the evening of 10/10/10. (We did not initially realize it was a binary day.)
We only made one announcement on the Arena community developer forum and we already have 19 registered attendees with two (and possibly three) of the top ten largest Christian churches in America attending. If you're looking to get plugged into the core of the Arena community developer team, the RefreshCache (RC) team is it.
We haven't locked everything down yet, but to give you an idea of what kinds of things we cover, check out last year's schedule or one of these other blog posts. Also as an added bonus, this year we're providing all registrants with early releases of a bunch of modules created by RefreshCache founding members. These modules include:
- Arena <-> Planning Center Online (PCO) integration. Created by Jon and David over at CCV. Currently being tested by Austin at NCBC.
- TinyMCE based Advanced HTML Editor. Created by Jason O at Central.
- CuFon Font Replacer. Use the CuFon font rendering engine instead of boring Arial, Verdana, etc on your website. Assembled by me.
- Promotions via XSLT. It can use a custom XSLT (for layout), inject style sheet, apply image effects, randomize, and cache. (The 'promotions' module to end all other promotion modules.
- and a few others...
I really hope you don't miss it -- register now.