Shopware Open Stage — Monthly Community Sessions
Shopware Discord Server
Every 3rd Thursday of the month in Discord
What is the Open Stage?
Once a month, we want to open our open stage on Discord to give you and us the opportunity to present topics, give presentations (from very short to really long), start discussions, and exchange ideas in a completely uncomplicated way and without any major pressure.
Get started as a speaker, learn new things or see what we are up to.
We invite you to:
Bring a topic you’re working on
Present something small or big
Join a discussion
Share a challenge you’re facing
Show your contributions
Suggest a new community activity
We aim to create an open, kind, and supportive stage for everyone.
Share your ideas
Session Types Talk (20–30 min) Deep dive: demos, architecture, features, workflows, learnings.
Tiny Talk (5 min, beginner-friendly) Quick insight: bug fix, first contribution, helpful command, small change, open question.
Discussion (10–15 min) Guided conversation on plugin structure, testing, deployment, productivity, and community ideas.
Join us
Here’s what’s coming up next on the Shopware Open Stage. Be there live on Discord: chat.shopware.com
Open Stage agenda
Sandro Groganz: Business Models and Licenses for Shopware Extensions
Many devs adopt permissive MIT licenses without considering business impact, as anyone can commercialize their code. This talk covers viable Shopware extension business models, compares MIT vs copyleft (GPLv2, GPLv3, AGPL), and asks: if code is open, what's your revenue?
Benny Poensgen: DDEV and shopware-cli: why not get most out of both?
DDEV and shopware-cli are a match made in local dev heaven. Fast container environments, native Shopware tools, custom commands and hooks: automate snapshots, asset builds, and more. From simple ddev start to multi-service setups with Redis and Elasticsearch, both scale. Why compromise?
