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Welcome! This will be the premiere place to learn about the latest shenanigans of the OSEM team. Explore with us the world of Free and Open Source Event management. Learn about the latest releases, features and issues of our little app. Let's go on a wild Ruby on Rails tour. Let's stage-dive into the latest, hot frontend topics together. C'mon people, let's rock 'n' roll!
Gearing up for 1.0
Currently we're not only busy buying socks and ties 
for our loved ones, Christmas 
is around the corner,
the whole team is also working hard to get the first official release out of the door. There are only two ship stoppers left, one in
our own code regarding association dependencies and the other one in
ahoy, the ruby gem we use to track visits. Particular the latter is a nasty
little bugger involving non-integer primary keys in rails, which seems to be 
you just don't want to encounter.
Once we squashed these we should be able to let the big 
go! 
OSEM 1.0 will be the culmination of more than 1.000
commits to 
. It will be a release which already has powered 5 large FOSS conferences. More
than 1000 people have gone through the registration and around 300 lectures through the paper
submission work flow. It has proven to be an asset in the tool belt of major 
Free and Open Source Software
communities, 
to openSUSE, GNOME and ownCloud!
osem.io standing on the shoulders...
Besides diligently submitting code to our repository we also went ahead and bought the osem.io domain
and hacked up this page to be able to release OSEM 1.0 with the 
brag factor it deserves!
As we take our freedom seriously also this endeavor is purely based on Free and Open Source Software. osem.io is built using
the wonderful static site generator Jekyll, the frontend is developed in the awesome
bootstrap framework from twitter (same as OSEM itself) and it's look is based on the neat
agency theme from StartBootstrap.com. Standing on shoulders of others
is fun 
Imagine you would have to come up with all of this by yourself, just to publish a web page. 
Stay tuned
That's whats currently going on with the OSEM crowd. We hope you enjoyed this first post and that you'll come back for more. If you have anything to say, just leave a comment would you?
We're looking forward to the release and more posts, like all the little ones 
look forward to the next days See you around!