Fresh news about Bonita BPM Community

Dear Community,

I have some fresh news for you, about Bonita BPM and the future of our Community.

First, it’s time for an update: the 6.0.3 version of Bonita BPM is available for download. It fixes some bugs in the Engine and Portal, and a lot of work has been done in Studio. You can read the full release note in pdf.

With Pablo Alonso, one of the consultants on our Service team, we have started a blog series about a Trello connector and application. It provides an example with a subprocess and a brand new connector from scratch with a Java application, shows how to use JSON with Bonita BPM, and more. All resources are already available, and will be updated on our Community GitHub.

Here’s the first part of the series: Trello Application Example – part 1. Pablo has started to work on the second part, which is developer-oriented.

About the future of our Community, I can tell you that we have done a lot of work to create a really good, brand-new website:

• More social – it will be easy to share your questions and content
• More practical – for Community technical support and collaboration between members
• More languages – with the ability to create local groups in other languages on the way
• More usable – there will be a new way to manage your contributions, from connectors to ideas and feedback.

It should be available before the end of the year. We will try to make a sort of beta opening to give you a chance to tell us what you think about it. If you want to be part of this beta group, please let me know in the comments.

I see on the forum that there are more and more users who are new to BPMN and Bonita BPM. I know that Bonita BPM can be technical for non-developers, so I would like to let you know that we haven’t forgotten you. On our corporate website, there are many ready-made process examples you can download, test and customize for your need. Also, there are BPMN process diagrams and process examples for use with tbe Community edition of Bonita BPM here – click on each category to see the list of what’s available.

In order to make it easier to install and learn about Bonita BPM, I have started some cool stuff on the Community Blog:

I’m updating “how to set up Bonita BPM on a full Open Source stack” for Bonita BPM 6.x.
I was looking at a fun way to learn and talk about Bonita BPM 6. I don’t know about you, but sometimes for me, it’s not so easy to explain to friends and family what BPMN and all that stuff is about. So, with help from our experts, I’ve creates a little game in Bontia BPM Studio, to show people that we can make not only business but fun process applications too. Stay tuned, for there may be some Bonitasoft goodies to win!
One of my goals is to try to better respond to community needs, and I have access to resources available at Bonitasoft. This means that if you want the Bonitasoft team to work on a specific How to, please let me know. There are many ways to contact me: Twitter, LinkedIn, and through the Bonita forum.

Have fun with Bonita!

Antoine