Process Analytics  - September 2022 News
Tags: news, typescript, analytics, visualization
Published: 2022-10-06 07:38:56


Welcome to the Process Analytics monthly news 👋.

Our monthly reminder: The goal of the Process Analytics project is to provide a means to rapidly display meaningful Process Analytics components in your web pages using BPMN 2.0 notation and Open Source libraries.

Goodbye summer 🏖️, welcome colorful autumn 🍂! For the Process Analytics team, fall activities and news start to color the project calendar 🔥. From preparation for Hacktoberfest, to improving the integration of bpmn-visualization in projects, September was a busy month. Let’s see what’s what 📚.

## Events

### Participation in Hacktoberfest 2022 as maintainers

This year again, the Process Analytics team is participating in [Hacktoberfest 2022](https://hacktoberfest.com/), as we did in Hacktoberfest [2021](https://medium.com/@process-analytics/hacktoberfest-2021-with-process-analytics-44eecc238ead) and [2020](https://dev.to/marcin_michniewicz/hacktoberfest-challenge-398g).

So what is Hacktoberfest 🤔?

It is the biggest open source event globally, organized by DigitalOcean 🌐. During the month of October, all open source enthusiasts (called _contributors_) are encouraged to participate by contributing to open source projects.

On the other side, project _maintainers _are invited to prepare their repositories to receive valuable contributions from the community. The Process Analytics team worked hard in September 💪 to create different contribution categories. 

You can find more details about our participation in [Hacktoberfest 2022 with Process Analytics](https://medium.com/@process-analytics/hacktoberfest-2022-with-process-analytics-add185b50721).


#### Promoting Hacktoberfest with Process Analytics

We have also developed a small application that can be easily customized and used by Hacktoberfest maintainers to promote their own projects. The application shows a simple process explaining how to participate. It is available as a [live demo](https://cdn.statically.io/gh/process-analytics/bpmn-visualization-examples/62a27db/demo/hacktoberfest-custom-themes/index.html) of the [bpmn-visualization-examples](https://github.com/process-analytics/bpmn-visualization-examples/) repository.


![Hacktoberfest 2022 theme with Process Analytics](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/sbcmkae4fpdpechjmqkz.gif)


### Participation in ICPM, the leading Process Mining conference

Our demo proposal submitted to the [International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM) 2022](https://icpmconference.org/2022/) has been accepted 🥳 . 

What is ICPM❓

It is a leading conference for process analytics researchers, practitioners and vendors. During a one week event, the latest scientific results, tools and trends are shared and discussed by community leaders.

As part of the conference structure, a demo session is organized to showcase innovative process mining tools and applications. The Process Analytics team is going to present a live demo. Join us during the week of October 23-28, 2022 in Bolzano 🔥.


## We are on Discord

We have set up a [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/HafnBYsRXd) server for Process Analytics. You can now join and get in touch with us.

Different channels are available for different purposes:

* To get our latest news, visit the **📣 news **channel.
* Use the ❓ **questions-answers** channel if you have any question related to the project usage.
* We welcome any feedback and suggestions. Just ping us on the **feedback **channel and we’ll be more than happy to read/listen.
* Finally, two channels are dedicated to contributors: 💻 **contributing** and **hacktoberfest**.


## bpmn-visualization JS/TS library

In September, we released 2 versions of the bpmn-visualization library: [0.26.1](https://github.com/process-analytics/bpmn-visualization-js/releases/tag/v0.26.1) & [0.26.2](https://github.com/process-analytics/bpmn-visualization-js/releases/tag/v0.26.2).

These 2 releases improve the integration of _bpmn-visualization_ in projects.


### Simplified bundler and framework configuration to integrate bpmn-visualization

It is now easier to use _bpmn-visualization_ in Parcel, Webpack and Angular projects 🔥. Previously, it was necessary to add a special configuration to the bundler to integrate _bpmn-visualization_. Starting with version 0.26.2, this is not needed anymore.


### Clarified TypeScript support

In the past, the minimum version of TypeScript required by _bpmn-visualization_ to work was not clearly indicated. We’ve fixed that too:

👀  _bpmn-visualization_ currently requires TypeScript 4.5. This requirement is enforced by automatic tests and there is no plan to increase the minimum TypeScript requirement in the upcoming _bpmn-visualization_ versions.


### Plans for the future

Here are the topics we will be addressing in the coming months:

* Development of  Process Analytics/Mining use cases using the bpmn-visualization libraries
* Simplification of integration in TypeScript projects


## That’s all folks!

We hope you enjoyed this September project news and are looking forward to what the rest of the fall will bring 👋.

In the meantime, stay on top of the latest news and releases by following us:



* Website: [https://process-analytics.dev](https://process-analytics.dev/?utm_source=dev.to&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=news)
* Twitter: [@ProcessAnalyti1](https://twitter.com/ProcessAnalyti1)
* GitHub: [https://github.com/process-analytics](https://github.com/process-analytics)
* Discord: [Join our server!](https://discord.com/invite/HafnBYsRXd) 

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