The Package Team

Introduction

Focus areas

  • Easing the transition to the New Backoffice (Bellissima)

  • Supporting people with their package creation

  • Maintain the official dotnet new umbraco-extension template

  • Helping people use packages

  • Helping people contribute to packages

  • Gathering feedback, promotion, celebrating contributions and content creation

Goals

  • To provide and maintain clear structure and development guidelines

  • To help and encourage new and returning package developers

  • To ensure a transparent and open collaboration and exchange with the HQ dev team and the other community teams

  • To improve the usability of Umbraco Marketplace

Main activities

  • Maintaining documentation on how to create a package, best practices and tackling common problems as a package developer

  • Organizing and holding bi-weekly follow-up online meetings - discuss the current state of the package repositories, potential improvements, and plans going forward (the meeting notes are publicly available)

  • Writing and publishing follow-up and updates blog posts on umbraco.com

  • Developing and maintaining open source tools that benefits package developers

  • Participating in hackathons, panel discussions, meetups, and conferences/festivals to assist new package developers, talk about the structure of the team, achievements, and future goals

Meet the team

Ronald Barendse

Umbraco HQ Steward
(Netherlands)

Lotte Pitcher

Umbraco HQ Asst. Steward
(United Kingdom)

Carl Sargunar

(United Kingdom)

Dirk De Grave

(Belgium)

Johan Reitsma

(Netherlands)

Marc Love

(United Kingdom)

Richard Ockerby

(United Kingdom)

Warren Buckley

(United Kingdom)

Callum Whyte

Honorary Team Member
(Australia)

Dennis Heutinck

Honorary Team Member
(Finland)

Mario Lopez

Honorary Team Member
(Australia)

Get in touch

To ask questions, the #package-development Discord channel is the recommended platform to use.

For those who don’t have a Discord account, they can send an email to packages@umbraco.com

We also have a Package Team X/Twitter account!

Sign up for the Umbraco Packages Newsletter here

Join the team

An online application will be open once a year, typically in autumn.

Ad hoc appointments can be made in case a team member chooses to step down.