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# Community Call May 28

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## Introduction
Welcome!

### How to keep on top of events
- [Astro Community Google Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=c_g6re3u5gkl0mug3ktn1dibqhfk%40group.calendar.google.com) - add to your own calendar!
- opt in to the `@notify-events` Discord role
- Discord Events sidebar - click "interested" to be notified on a per-event basis!


## Core Update

4.10

### Helpful Core Links

[Astro CHANGELOG](https://github.com/withastro/astro/blob/refs/heads/main/packages/astro/CHANGELOG.md) - see the latest version and what's new
[Next "Milestone"](https://github.com/withastro/astro/milestones/) - see what we expect to release in the next minor version
[Roadmap](https://github.com/withastro/roadmap/discussions/) where you can find and participate in RFC Discussions
[Contribute](https://docs.astro.build/en/contribute/) - learn how to get involved and contribute to *all* the Astro repos!


## Starlight Update

A new patch version for the Starlight Tailwind CSS plugin has been released fixing the default `font-family` in non-Starlight pages when using the plugin.

Actively working actively on various new features and improvements for Starlight:

- New components like `<Badge>` (amazing work by Kevin) and `<LinkButton>`
- Sidebar improvemnents with autogenerated sidebar labels based on slugs (thanks Lorenzo)
- i18n improvements by providing access to `Astro.currentLocale` and `i18next` features
- And much more!

### Starlight Links

[Starlight](https://starlight.astro.build)
[Starlight CHANGELOG](https://github.com/withastro/starlight/blob/main/packages/starlight/CHANGELOG.md)

## Team Docs/DX (Sarah)

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### Docs Links

[Follow @astrodocs on the Fediverse](https://m.webtoo.ls/@astrodocs/)
Learn how to contribute at [Astro Docs Docs (AD²) ](https://contribute.docs.astro.build)

## Maintainer/Guests (Demos, interviews, announcements)

## Community Showcase Content (Alex)
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### Blogs/Articles/Videos etc.
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- 📺 [Deploy an Astro static site to DigitalOcean](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6t93CFnmps) by @zacksiri

- 🎙️ [Simple Stack Streaming - Discussed on Front-end Fire](https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Y7RCXFJQtUxYGNXqemFw7)		
- 📄 [Adding Related Articles with Astro Content Collections](https://blog.codybrunner.com/2024/adding-related-articles-with-astro-content-collections/)	

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- 📄 [Webmentions in Astro for blog posts](https://stevefrenzel.dev/posts/webmentions-in-astro-for-blog-posts/) by @stevefrenzel
- 📚 [Introduction to the Astro web framework (Udemy course)](https://www.udemy.com/course/introduction-to-the-astro-web-framework/) by @TechRazor
- 📺 [The SLAY stack: Sanity, Laravel, Astro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl651FQPmBY) by @chrispecoraro

### Tips and Tools
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- [custom-element-docgen (Astro Integration)](https://github.com/andrico1234/custom-element-docgen) by @andrico1234
- [starlight-utils](https://starlight-utils.pages.dev/) by @LorenzoLewis
- [Bag of Tricks - image gallery](https://events-3bg.pages.dev/image-gallery/) by @Martrapp
- [@astrojs/web-vitals (experimental)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@astrojs/web-vitals) by @delucis/@astro 
- [HonoAstroAdapter](https://github.com/JoseDv1/HonoAstroAdapter) by @JoseDv1
- [Astro UI library](https://ui.full.dev/) by @Sil
- [astro-starlight-remark-asides](https://github.com/OliverSpeir/astro-starlight-remark-asides#readme) by @oliverspeir

### Templates/Themes

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https://astro.build/themes/details/atlas
https://shop.hounie.me/l/full-stack-astro-and-cloudflare-purrfile
https://visions.hounie.me/

### Personal/Professional/Project Sites
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{ url: 'https://pedro-portfolio-seven.vercel.app/', title: '@pedro'},
{ url: 'https://heyitworks.tech/', title: '@danielrosehill'},
{ url: 'https://sanbana.netlify.app/', title: '@lmura'},
{ url: 'https://www.aniketnegi.com/', title: '@ankt'},
{ url: 'https://qr.florian-lefebvre.dev/', title: '@Florian'},
{ url: 'https://nodeshift.click/', title: '@johnmcgg'},
{ url: 'https://exsuntrasolutions.com/', title: '@ubong.dev'},
{ url: 'https://0nisec.blog/', title: '@ty4rel'},
{ url: 'https://2024.squiggleconf.com/', title: 'SquiggleConf'},

### Starlight in the wild

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{ url: 'https://tanka.dev/', title: '@grafana'},
{ url: 'https://butterfly.linwood.dev/', title: '@LinwoodDev'},
{ url: 'https://docs.likec4.dev/', title: '@likec4'},
{ url: 'https://docs.castopod.org/develop/en/', title: '@ad-aures'},
{ url: 'https://baomidou.com/', title: '@baomidou'},
{ url: 'https://dmno.dev/', title: 'DMNO'},
{ url: 'https://how2neovim.io', title: 'how2neovim'},

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