I'm very happy to announce Team Aptana, a new initiative from Aptana. Team Aptana is a group of highly engaged members of the Aptana community who will be providing assistance to other customers and partners in the forums as well as providing constructive input to our engineering team. You'll be able to identify them through the badge on their posts:

Charter members of Team Aptana:

• Steven Brown
• Steve Walker
• Alberto Santini
• Shawn Jonnet
• Lewis Cunningham
• Nathan Smith

As time goes on we will definitely be looking to add new participants, so if you want to be considered feel free to let me know (blazar at aptana.com).

Forum Upgrade

The other big change today is that the forums have been integrated with the Aptana ID system, restructured to fit current needs and updated to phpBB3 (3.0.4, to be precise).

And it runs on Aptana Cloud!

Integration with the Aptana ID system means that you can now sign in to the Forums with the same username and password you use for Cloud, ASAP and Studio. This also means that usernames must meet the Aptana ID username criteria.

• If you used the same email address when registering for your forum and Aptana ID/ASAP accounts but a different username, the username on your forum account and posts will change to your Aptana ID username.
• If you used the same username but a different email address when registering for your forum and Aptana ID/ASAP accounts, a new Aptana ID account has been created for you.
• If you have not had an Aptana ID/ASAP account before one has been created for you.
• For the latter two cases: If your current forums username doesn't meet the new criteria, the username on your forum posts has changed to your newly created Aptana ID.

We've restructured the set of forums on the board to better reflect the current requirements of our community and our growing list of products and plugins.

phpBB has been updated to version 3.0.4 and there are now RSS feeds available for each forum, the entire board and individual threads. If you don't see the orange RSS icon on a page, just look for the icon in the URL bar and click it to see the RSS options for the page.

Overall we hope Team Aptana and the forum upgrade give you a big improvement in your Aptana community experience. If you have more ideas for enhancements, please send them in.

Bill Lazar
Manager, Customer Success