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In the fourth episode of the Meteor Spotlight podcast, we chat with our friend James Sear, the co-founder of Avion!

With a combined experience of 20+ years of building digital products, Tim Ramage and James Sear recognized the inadequacy of online tooling available in user story mapping which led them to build Avion - an intuitive and user-focused story mapping tool with real-time capabilities. Meteor gave them the ability to create a fully real-time application with absolute ease.

To learn more about Avion,  what they do, and how they're scaling with Meteor, tune into this episode! We cover everything from their tech stack, new features to come, and how they're scaling with Meteor.

Thanks for listening!

Links:
User story mapping tool
Avion case study
Meteor's website
Meteor Cloud

In this episode, we cover everything from releases to Meteor Meetups, the new 2.3, 2.3.1, 2.3.2 release, as well as Meteor Impact 2021. 

There was a lot to cover on the open-source side, which included: 

Meteor 2.3, 2.3.1, 2.3.2 Highlights:

1. New env variable METEOR_TOOL_ENABLE_REIFY_RUNTIME_CACHE
2. New flag --platforms have been added to the build command
3. Android new artifact format
4. Fixed long-standing bug causing server restarts
5. Skeletons dependencies updated to the latest version
6. Typescript update to 4.3.2

Meteor Meet-ups: 

The next Meteor Meet-up will be happening on July 28th and will be the German meet-up! If you're interested in joining the session, click here for more. As mentioned previously, our meet-ups are remote for the time being until we can transition back into in-person meetings. We'd also love to have more speakers for these sessions, so if you're interested, please reach out to elysse@meteor.com! We'd love to hear from you. 

Meteor Impact: 

Meteor Impact will be happening on October 21st and 22nd - if you're interested in being a speaker, please reach out to elysse@meteor.com for more information! 

This year's conference will also include a five-day Hackathon filled with prizes and networking opportunities! The Meteor Hackathon will be held from October 15th to October 22nd (a 7-day event), focusing on building knowledge and understanding in Meteor.js, Meteor Cloud, and javascript.

You and your team can build a product with a clear revenue stream, a non-profit, open-source, or anything in between, BUT it should be usable and deployed on Galaxy at the end.

Make your teams and register today as we have limited spots - Click here to register! 

Social Spotlight: 

We're highlighting different Meteor applications on our social channels for the weekly social spotlight campaign. This would run cross-platform (all channels) and contains an overview of your company/app as well as links to any specific CTA you'd like. You can fill out this form here if you'd like to be a part of our social spotlight series! 

Thanks for listening! 

We covered a lot of ground in February! On this episode of the Meteor Monthly Wrap-Up, Filipe and Matt discuss developments on the open-source side, including: 

Meteor 2.1 (Node.js security release): Node.js released its update on Feb 23rd, and we released ours just the next day. A trend that we're hoping to continue, especially with security releases. 

New Development Hire: Meteor Software is hiring! If you're a passionate Meteor developer that wants to contribute to Meteor and Meteor Cloud, we'd love to hear from you! Bonus points if you are already a Meteor contributor. See the full job description here. 

We also dive into Verified Accounts on Atmosphere, Meteor Examples, the Meteor Job Board, and much more! 

Our featured Meteor Cloud Feature (featured, feature) is Prerender SEO optimization, which comes standard with applications deployed on Meteor Cloud. There is a server that tries to render your JavaScript application for you in a way that's friendly for SEO at no additional charge! 

Thanks for listening!