Alfresco recently launched the Alfresco Community Committer Program (ACCP), which is designed to promote and encourage open source contributions to the Alfresco platform through a structured process.

Software contributions accepted into ACCP will include any and all software extensions, language packs, plug-ins, and integrations, which enhance Alfresco’s core capabilities, meet a specified set of standards and attain voting approval by the ACCP Committee.

While there has always been developer contributions to the Alfresco platform, the ACCP now presents a better way to organize the contributions that will ultimately benefit all Alfresco Community and Enterprise users.

To show our continued commitment towards open source and Alfresco, Mike Vertal and Russ Danner from Rivet Logic are both on the ACCP founding committee. We’re excited to see this new program start and how the extensions contributed by the community can further enhance the Alfresco platform and benefit the overall community.

For more information on the ACCP, please visit: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Accp

Alfresco is kicking off another “Lunch and Learn” event series this summer, and Rivet Logic will be hosting the New York and Raleigh events. The Lunch and learn series will take place in 25 cities across the US, Canada and Peru starting July 13, and will be produced by Alfresco partners.

The Lunch & Learn seminar series is designed to educate and inform organizations evaluating ECM solutions and discuss how businesses are benefiting from an open source platform like Alfresco.

Topics of focus include:

• Cost saving benefits of Alfresco compared to proprietary systems like Documentum, Open Text and SharePoint
• Real-world case studies of how organizations using Alfresco are seeing results
• Alfresco product demos

This will be a terrific opportunity for attendees to talk to Alfresco experts and hear first hand about the cost-saving benefits of Alfresco.

For more information and to register, click here.

Rivet Logic recently released the newly updated Remote Alfresco API rivet (RAAr) to support the latest Alfresco releases. RAAr was first released to the Alfresco community back in October of 2008, and provides an abstraction layer for remote communication with Alfresco ECM.

RAAr provides a simple, Java-based local library that may be used by one or more content rich applications and allows these applications to interface to Alfresco (including multiple Alfresco repositories from the same application). RAAr’s lower layers handle communication to remote Alfresco instances over ReSTful calls to Alfresco that get mapped to calls to the Alfresco Foundation Services (AFS) API.

RAAr’s Java library is backed by an Alfresco Web Script-based Java services that marshal/unmarshal calls and direct them to AFS. RAAr takes care of marshaling/unmarshaling of parameters and handles connection management to multiple-Alfresco instances. Furthermore, RAAr provides more coarse-grained calls for better remoting to enhance performance.

This new version of RAAr will support the latest Alfresco 3.1.x and 3.2.x releases.

RAAr is a free and open source software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3.0. For more information, please visit http://www.rivetlogic.com/Forge/Rivets/Remote_Alfresco_API_Rivet.

Alfresco is running a 20-city Lunch & Learn series to review the new Enterprise 3.2 release, along with implementation best practices and solution demos.

Rivet Logic will be hosting the Washington DC, Orlando, and Boston Lunch & Learns over the next couple of weeks.

Click here to learn more and to register. We hope to see you there!

Alfresco has been working on various ways to bring its enterprise content management platform into the cloud. It started with its Cloud Content Application Developer Program back in September of last year, which “provides an open source Amazon EC2-ready stack and developer kit for customers and partners to develop, deploy and monetize cloud service architecture (CSA) content applications on the EC2 platform”.

More recently, Alfresco teamed with Right Scale to offer a solution that speeds deployment time and automates scaling of Alfresco in the cloud.

As cloud computing continues to buzz in the industry and as more and more enterprises are venturing into the cloud environment, it’s no surprise that Alfresco is expanding its capabilities into that arena.

To test out Alfresco in the cloud for yourself, click here for an Alfresco Cloud trial with a full implementation of Alfresco Share running on the Amazon Cloud.

Alfresco just selected Rivet Logic as the winner of their Americas Partner of the Quarter Award.

Alfresco Partner of the Quarter, Q2 2009 - Rivet Logic

We’re truly honored to be recognized again by Alfresco for our accomplishments. Over the past year, we’ve continued to see strong demand for our Alfresco consulting services as more and more organizations are becoming more liberal towards the idea of open source. Last quarter, we kicked off several new Alfresco projects in a variety of sectors - including higher ed, media/publishing, technology and non-profit.

We look forward to continuing our work with major enterprises, and contributing back to the Alfresco community.

Alfresco recently became the first open source product to demonstrate DoD 5015.2 compliance, which outlines mandatory baseline functional requirements for Records Management (RM).

Achieving this certification opens new doors for Alfresco in the government sector as many government organizations can only acquire products that meet this compliance. Although Alfresco has always had RM capabilities, it wasn’t until recently with its Community 3.2 release that it started working towards the DoD 5015.2 certification.

At the upcoming Alfresco Meetup in Washington D.C., John Newton - Alfresco founder - will be sharing details of Alfresco’s new RM module. And of course, Rivet Logic will be participating as a sponsor.

To register for the event, click here.

The annual AIIM Expo & Conference is less than a week away, and this year, Rivet Logic will be an active participant. Not only will we be exhibiting on the show floor, we will also be hosting a seminar and cocktail reception.

The reception will be held on Wednesday, April 1st, at 5pm at the Philadelphia Downtown Marriott adjoining the Philadelphia Convention Center where the AIIM Expo will be held.

The topic of the seminar will be Open Source ECM in Action, an opportunity for attendees to learn from our real-world experiences implementing Alfresco across a wide range of vertical markets & application areas, including a case study from the pharmaceutical industry.

To top off the free food, drinks, and engaging topic, we will also be raffling off a Kindle!

For full event details and to register, please visit
www.rivetlogic.com/reg/mar09/aiim-expo.

And if you’re planning to attend the AIIM Expo, don’t forget to come visit us at Booth #524 or our virtual booth!

We hope to see you there!

In this down economy, enterprises everywhere are looking for new opportunities to cut costs. Why use expensive, proprietary ECM applications and infrastructure when commercial open source alternatives offers dramatically reduced costs, mitigate risk, without compromising on performance availability and supportability?

Join us as Rivet Logic and Ingres Corporation co-host a webcast this Wednesday, March 4th, to see how transitioning to an open source infrastructure with products like Alfresco, Red Hat, and Ingres could benefit your organization as we draw on real-world examples.

Click here to register for this webcast.

The next stop on Alfresco’s Road Show is the Big Apple, which will take place on November 14th.

Rivet Logic customer, Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP), will be discussing the details of a major Alfresco implementation that we have under way.   In addition, our CEO will be presenting ConnectedWeddings.com as another real-world example of an Alfresco implementation, with a focus on social networking and Facebook integration.  And one of our technical architects will demonstrate what we think are some of the coolest features in the forthcoming Alfresco 3.0 release.

Some other interesting content to be covered include Alfresco Share, Alfresco Surf, and why the world needs an alternative to SharePoint.

Last but not least, the road show will conclude with one lucky winner walking away with a brand new Apple iPod Touch!

You can register here:
http://www.alfresco.com/about/events/2008/11/nyc-road-show/