In step with other open source projects, we recently set up a Google group to act as a developer mailing list.  The Omeka Dev list is open to anyone, but specifically designed to discuss the underlying code of Omeka, plugin development, data and migration, among other things.   Those interested in contributing code patches can do so in this group as well – information about SVN and Trac are posted as a message on the group.  From our end, we’ll use this group as a way to communicate with developers about what we’re working on and changes that are being made.  And don’t forget, for Omeka users who aren’t ready or interested in diving into Omeka’s code, we’d encourage you to continue using the forums which are still “buzzing.” :)

It’s April, so it’s time to think about exhibits. You might ask why in April? Even though the official equinox is in March, April feels more Spring-like bringing with it metaphors of renewal, growth, and productivity. Perhaps we are getting too deep, but we are curious to know if you have built any exhibits since the release of Omeka 0.9.0.

To share your work, we created a special section in the forums called “Use Cases” where you may show off your exhibits and/or sites–finished or in-progress works. You can even comment on the exhibit development process or lessons you learned along the way.

We are tweaking the exhibit builder feature for future releases and are very interested in hearing about your experiences.

Please take a minute to post some of your projects or thoughts in the Use Cases section of the forum.

Happy Spring!

Omeka 0.9.1 is our first release since the initial public launch on February 20, 2008. It fixes 20+ bugs, and we highly recommend that all users upgrade their existing Omeka installations. The API hasn’t changed since the 0.9.0 release, so existing themes and plugins should continue to work after the upgrade.

If you have found a bug in Omeka, we would love to hear about it on the forums. We ask only that you first make sure that you have upgraded to the latest available release of Omeka. Also, bugs are fixed on a daily basis, and developers who would like to keep up with the latest changes are invited to check out a copy of the stable-0.9 branch via SVN.

Enjoy!