This is the third day of Orchard Harvest! The downside is that it's the last day, though it's really great that this is the first Harvest with three days (instead of two). Sébastien is today's keynote speaker sharing his long-term vision regarding Orchard. Sébastien also enumerates the important aspects of Orchard and its community, most of them centered around openness. To make Orchard better, we need to learn from other systems and communities! Next on stage is Nicholas Taylor Mullen from Microsoft, talking about ASP.NET vNext as a continuation to yesterday's talk with Scott Hunter and Eilon Lipton. We've seen some of the newest features of Visual Studio too that were built to work together with ASP.NET vNext. Our third speaker today is Bing Huan Chio talking about how and why the backend system for the Halo Waypoint blog was migrated to Orchard. Since they were newcomers to Orchard at the beginning of their project at their setup required an API module, since the Orchard application served as a backend system. The REST API module that was created for this project is going be open-sourced soon and is a good candidate for adding it to the new modules of Orchard 1.9. After that a short presentation came to announce the results of the Orchard Spring Harvest Challenge. We made a live "interview" with the winner - Daniel Dabrowski - via Skype to present his great Orchard project, the MiniProfiler. And then finally, the last presentation is by us, Lombiq, on how the Orchard CMS SaaS, DotNest was created and how it is maintained. In the first half, Zoltán is talking about the requirements of such a software and what kind of tools we've built to fulfill them and then Benedek was on stage to describe the deployment process currently used by Lombiq (as well as some retrospective case-study about its development) that enables us to maintain all our websites (including DotNest, of course) and deploy them without any downtime. That's it for Orchard Harvest for this year, see you next time!

The second day of Orchard Harvest is on! Our keynote speaker is Damien Edwards, Senior Program Manager in ASP.NET talking about how to use AngularJS in ASP.NET. He shares a lot of pieces of knowledge on how to build powerful single-page applications with a small amount of code. AngularJS is a client-side MVC framework with a ton of features that allow you to write input-heavy UI with highly reusable code, it's actually quite Orchard-y! On a sidenote, we at Lombiq also use AngularJS for most of our projects, including the ones we create for our clients and DotNest too! The next presentation is by Sébastien again, talking about adapting and using Bootstrap-based themes for Orchard websites. Sébastien walks us through the basic structure and usage of Bootstrap, what are the available solutions if you'd like to use a Bootstrap-based theme for your website and how and why he built a new theme called TheBootstrapMachine for the ASP.NET blogs. Next on stage is Sipke, giving us an in-depth session about the usage of the Workflows module through real-life examples. The last presentation before the luch break is the Orchard developers respresenting AMC Theatres: Travis Maddox and Adam Anderson. They are sharing with us their experiences about Orchard and how they built an extremely content-heavy website. They described in-depth their server architecture, performance-related experiences and results due to recent updates and site-load statistics. We also heard about how they upgraded the site with the major Orchard version and the new features and bits added to the site to enhance user experience. <LunchBreak /> After the break, Scott Hunter and Eilon Lipton talk about the future of .NET in reflection to the recently announced news regarding the .NET platform. Scott tells about some of the architectural aspects of the future generations of .NET and ASP.NET vNext. After that Eilon is taking preview version of Visual Studio 2014 for a ride to show us the basics of an ASP.NET vNext application. And then the Sébastien show is on once again! He mentions the current pressing matters of the Orchard ecosystem, like the bugs waiting to be fixed, the documentation that needs update and extensions, along with some other tasks for the near future: A very important feature currently under development by IDeliverable is the AuditTrail module. Besides, the Content Deployment module by Damien Clarke is also a good candidate for being added to the core. The localization capabilities in terms of content management definitely need some love. New admin theme (under development by Antoine), including better content organization (e.g. like the Tree by Bertrand). Adding/fixing new features to the gallery: generating the downloadable packages based on VCS changes (so module developers don't need to care about creating releases for the gallery too) and displaying information about the modules' compatibility with different Orchard versions. See you tomorrow with more Orchard Harvest news!

The third Orchard Harvest conference, held in Seattle, just began! Orcharders from all around the world gathered together at the Microsoft campus to share their experiences about their favourite CMS. The keynote by Ylan and Bertrand got us up to speed with the current news about Orchard. Ylan gave us a warm welcome and introduced some of the well-known participants to the community. After that, Bertrand showed us historical and recent statistics (along with some funny pictures) about Orchard, the community and the contributors. In the second session, aka "the Sébastien show", the benevolant dictator of Orchard is walking us through the process and details of migrating the ASP.NET blogs to Orchard. 750 blogs hosted by 4 Azure Web Sites that run on only one Large Virtual Machine. Sébastien also talked about interesting technical details, how the migration from the old system was executed and then the conclusion came: "Orchard is fast and easy to use". Besides, the tool that was written to serve as a bridge between the old system's content and the new one (working with BlogML format and Orchard recipes) will be publicly available soon. The next session is by Jorge and Eric from Onestop: Jorge is walking us through the development and usage of the Onestop.Layout module that enables you to create custom, dynamically rearrangeable layouts, templates and slideshows. After that, Eric talked about master-child theming. The module is open-source and avaiable on BitBucket (along with other Onestop modules)! The last session before the lunch break is by Piotr from Proligence: Piotr is talking about how they adopted Orchard and the fact that they (and their clients) are more than happy with this decision. Proligence shares some of their modules with community as open source projects on BitBucket, like a unit testing framework, the Astoria framework and the PowerShell CLI. <LunchBreak /> After the break Samuel Goldenbaum from Hellocomputer (CTO) is talking about their digital agency based in Johannesburg and the some of the projects they delivered to big clients, like Toyota, the Jamaican Tourism Board and FCB South Africa. The latter project also involves the creation of an Orchard backend for serving content to mobile applications when attending conferences. Next up is the representatives of MS Open Tech, Ross Gardler and Roopali Kaujalgi. Ross is talking about the company and its relation to Microsoft, how they are working with open-source technologies and spreading the word. In the second half of the presentation Roopali is showing us how to use the Microsoft Azure Media Services module, that was recently integrated into the Orchard codebase - this module's purpose is to serve media (mostly videos) to users visiting Orchard websites. The last presentation today is Steve Taylor's session about the future of widgets in Orchard, Web Components and Polymer.js.