I must start this post with a sincere thank-you to the entire Magento community – customers, partners, developers and employees. You have all played an instrumental role in the remarkable growth we have experienced over the past year. We forecast a 300 percent growth in sales in 2010 with over 60,000 live Magento sites around the world built for the world’s best brands, the largest retailers and ecommerce innovators. To support this explosive growth we now have over 180 employees worldwide dedicated to supporting this growth trajectory.

Today, we are very proud to announce the appointment of Michel Goossens as vice president and general manager of Magento’s EMEA operations and Jary Carter as vice president of N. America sales operations. Michel and Jary bring extensive industry experience and knowledge to Magento and both are strong and innovative leaders.

Michel joins us from Red Hat, where he was vice president EMEA of the organization’s JBoss division and Jary comes to us from Alfresco (open source enterprise content management software) where he was the Americas director of channels. You can seem more details in the press release below.

All of us here are very excited about Magento’s growth and are focused on our mission of 'enabling the ecommerce ecosystem' and driving your success with Magento.

Read the official press release

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Summer of 2010 for Magento is hotter then ever. Magento is growing at unprecedented speed. And thanks to you there are now over 270,000 registered community members. You read that correctly! Over quarter of a Million.

In order to facilitate the growing community, I’m happy to announce that Rhonda and I have joined Magento in community leadership roles. I’m an avid user of Magento for my own ecommerce site and some of you may have crossed paths with me in the forums. I go by monocat. (long story ) Joining me to this new quest is Rhonda Rondeau, our new community manager whose primary responsibilities will be interacting with you in the forums and responding developers’ needs within the Magento Community. Rhonda joins us from MySpace where she managed the MySpace Developer Community. She is an enthusiastic individual and eager to assist you all.

We are enthused to be part of enhancing the community and adding our voices. We will be actively monitoring the forums and participate in discussions. Of course a community can’t be ran by itself. We welcome more ambassadors (moderators) to take initiatives by assisting fellow Magentites. Looking forward building great relationships with you all.

We are reviewing current community policies as well as considering new processes to better facilitate the community interaction and contribution. Look forward to new updates as they become available.

Rhonda and I are here to assist you fully. I can be reached at mosses@magento.com. Rhonda at rhonda@magento.com. Please feel free to contact us at any time. We’re looking forward to your thoughts, comments and suggestions.

Go Go Magento!!

- Mosses + Rhonda

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Join us for an introduction to developing for Magento. Tomorrow’s webinar in our Summer Webinar Series will be a whirlwind tour of Magento’s programming framework and best practices for creating your own modules and correctly overwriting modules without editing core files.

This webinar is intended for developers familiar with PHP or object-oriented programming who are looking to get started with Magento. Also the perfect refresher for developers who have taught themselves Magento, but would like a fill in some knowledge gaps. Webinar is Thursday August 26th, at 9AM Pacific time (GMT-7). Register to join for the Developing for Magento Webinar. Space is limited, so register now!

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SoCal Magento users coordinated yet another successful Meetup event on August 17th and were joined by nearly 30 guests at the Los Angeles meeting space, Blank Spaces. The versatile meeting and conference rental space located in the heart of the West side, allowed for networking, discussions and post-discussion snacking at LA’s famous Korean BBQ truck, Kogi BBQ.

Attendees ranged from native Angelenos, commuters from Santa Barbara and visitors from New York- all to hear about news and updates on Magento products. Speakers covered topics like: extension structure, security patches and Magento support. Sevan Baghdasarian, Clafin Equipment employee and Magento Enterprise Edition user presented to the group about his involvement with Magento and how he became such an evangelist.

The event had a great turn- out and offered much opportunity for great connections! Be sure to join the Socal Magento users Meetup group for notices on future events in the Southern California area.

If you’re not in SoCal, check out some of the events we’re having in Boston and Culver City.

And if you want to be a Meet-Up Leader in your U.S. city or university, apply today at : http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-meetups/

Here are some photos of the venue and event!

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The Magento Team is excited to announce that Stamps.com, a leading provider of online postage services, has launched a new USPS shipping integration for Magento merchants.  With this new extension, merchants can print pre-paid USPS shipping labels for any USPS mail class.  In addition, Stamps.com will automatically post ship date, tracking info, and mail class information back to the Magneto merchant’s database.  Here are some of the other great highlights of this new extension from Stamps.com:

• Rapid Order Fulfillment: Batch print up to 1,000 USPS shipping labels at a time – Thermal printers supported for faster printing
• Hidden Postage: Eliminate all S&H questions by hiding the postage amount from the shipping label.
• Print all USPS Mail Classes: Print shipping labels for all USPS mail classes, including Parcel Post, Media Mail and First Class Mail International
• Discounted Insurance: Save up to 40% on Stamps.com postage insurance compared to USPS rates
• Eliminate Trips to the Post Office: Schedule carrier pickups and have the Post Office come to you

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Magento Mobile is almost ready to hit the streets. Tomorrow’s webinar in our Summer Webinar Series is a Magento Mobile Quick Start and will demo the Admin Panel and app building process (spoiler: it’s really easy). 

Join us if you’re interested in being the first in your gang to see Magento Mobile in action. Webinar is Thursday August 19th, at 9AM Pacific time (GMT-7). Register to join on the Summer Webinar Series page. Space is limited, so register now!

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If you’re in Boston on September 14th, you won’t want to miss the Optaros-hosted Meetup event on metrics! Brad Schwarzenbach, Senior Strategist at Tippingpoint Labs will answer questions about what metrics your company or clients should be using with Magento ecommerce projects. The event will be showcasing how the changing web universe impacts the way brands measure online marketing success.

Learn about what Tippingpoint Labs calls the “DAPRmetrics revolution,” and how it will enable brands to more accurately measure and predict business success online as well as determine “Online Brand Value.”

Register for the event by visiting the Meetup event page.

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We’re excited to announce that we are a Gold Sponsor at Paypal X Innovate Developer Conference in San Francisco October 26-27 and we’d love for you to stop by our booth.

The San Francisco developer conference features Paypal’s first open global payments platform and is intended to make great changes in the future of money. October 26th and 27th in San Francisco, Paypal will host the conference and has brought on over 60 sponsors and their exhibits, 40 technical sessions, 30 demonstrations (paired with code samples) and a keynote from open source thought leader, Tim O’Reilly, Paypal President Scott Thompson as well as a talk from our own Roy Rubin.

Don’t miss Magento CEO Roy Rubin and Vice President, PayPal Platform and Emerging Technology Osama Bedier’s presentation “Magento, the eCommerce Platform for Innovation on X.”

Magento is pleased to be a part of such a great event this year and looks forward to networking, learning and sharing. We hope our ecosystem of developers, merchants, and partners will be able to attend and stop by our booth to say hello!

Register today!

See who’s attending the Paypal X Innovate event by visiting their Facebook profile and get up-to-date information on the event on their Twitter profile.

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Join us for another Magento U webinar. Tuesday August 17th, at 9AM Pacific time, Magento U will be featuring their episode “OK, I’ve installed Magento, now what?”

Installing Magento is the first move towards creating a successful store but configuring your settings and content, as well as managing your categories, modules and themes is essential in its success.

Learn how to customize your store by changing themes, logos or even creating additional stores, the Magento U team will answer the most common questions and provide useful information about getting properly set up.

Don’t miss out on the valuable information we’re going to be sharing, register for the webinar here!

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Established in 1817, AMeds provides medical equipment and supplies to consumers as well as hospitals, clinics & professionals through various channels. The migration of 40,000+ SKU storefront from a proprietary code base to Magento Enterprise Edition 1.8 was achieved successfully by minimizing risk of adverse effects on pre-existing marketing campaigns, traffic and customer base. Magento’s open and highly customizable development platform has allowed for migration and integration of all customer data (including passwords and order history), as well as retention of thousands of old URLs via systematic URL rewriting patterns allowing for preserved natural search engine rankings, in addition to continued operation of PPC & CSE campaigns with virtually no changes.


Sevan Baghdasarian, Director of E-Commerce, explains in a 3-part series featured on the Magento Blog earlier this year, “Why they decided on Magento Enterprise Edition” when comparing to other state-of-the-art enterprise e-commerce platforms. 

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We are excited to announce that we have settled in our new headquarters! Come be the first to check out the new Magento office and join other Magento developers for an evening of networking, snacks and a talk on “Methods and Best Practices for High Performance eCommerce” by Lead Architect, Dmitriy Soroka.


We are excited to give you the insider tips and tricks for optimizing your store! The event will be held on Thursday, September 16 from 7-9 pm at the Culver City headquarters.

For location information, check out the Meetup event page. Spots for this event are limited so be sure to register!

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Going to be at eTail East in a few days?  August 9-12, Magento’s own Amit Shah, Vice President of Sales and Business Development, will be attending this year’s eTail event in Baltimore, Maryland.

The event, held at The Baltimore Convention Center, featured speakers like Jed Clevenger, Head of Search Marketing at Ebay, Sean Coutts, GM of eCommerce at WalMart and Christian Rivell, Manager of Online Marketing at QVC.

We’re looking forward to a few great days of networking and meeting those involved with Magento.

If you’re going to be there, we’d love to chat!

Email Amit at amit@magento.com

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