Heather Floyd

This is a collection of Resources related to Umbraco which I believe will be useful to those who are new the the CMS. I plan to keep this updated. If any of these links break, or you have any suggestions for additional resources, please let me know.

For Agencies

An Agency’s Guide to the Umbraco CMS — In this book I share the best-practices I have gathered from over 20 years of experience in a concise format to give you a quick start with no fluff.
Free E-Course: 5 Ways to Save Time When Building an Umbraco Website — Written especially for agencies new to Umbraco development, this 5-part e-course will share tips on project-management and development to get your Umbraco projects off to a good start.

For Help & Learning

Our.Umbraco.com — Support forums, package downloads, videos, official documentation, releases, etc.
Skrift Magazine — A monthly magazine for sharing knowledge in the Umbraco community
24 Days Umbraco Advent Calendar — Annual "advent calendar" of community-supplied articles counting down the days in December
Umbraco.TV — Training and how-to videos created by Umbraco HQ
Our.Umbraco.com Videos — Videos including Codegarden session recordings 2015-2018
Umbraco HQ Vimeo Channel — Videos including Codegarden session recordings 2010-2016
Umbraco HQ YouTube Channel — Videos including Codegarden session recordings 2019

For News

umbraCoffee — Each week, on Friday 12:30 CET, Marcin and Callum from The Cogworks - together with their guest(s) will drive you through the weekly news and things Umbraco related.

For Community

Codegarden Conference — The annual HQ-sponsored event held in Denmark.
Umbraco Festivals — Umbraco conferences ("Festivals") happen around the world annually.
Meetups — Umbraco Meetups are happening regularly all around the world.
Twitter — There is an active #Umbraco presence on Twitter.
Umbracians Slack Group — Free-form conversations and community announcements.
Umbraco Gitter — Another free-form chatting platform. Not currently very active. 
UPractitioners — A virtual meetup for anyone involved in Umbraco projects: Strategy, UX/UI Design, Marketing, Content, Project Management & Front-end/Back-end Developers.
Candid Contributions Podcast — Podcast where four experienced developers (and Umbraco community regulars): Carole Logan, Emma Burstow, Laura Weatherhead and Lotte Pitcher talk all things open source - from code contributions to conference attendance and aim to cover all aspects of life as an active member of an open-source community.
The Bob & Kevin Show — Podcast from long-time Umbraco community members Bob Baty-Barr and Kevin Giszewski talking about a lot on non-Umbraco tech topics, but frequently chat with with other Umbraco community folks.

For Contribution

GitHub — Repositories for Umbraco CMS Core, Documentation (yes, you can contribute to that as well!) and other things.
Umbraco Community Teams — The community teams are an example of the collaboration between Umbraco HQ and the community, and allow a wonderful exchange of insight, feedback and ideas. Teams exist for various Development efforts, along with Accessibility and Documentation.