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+title: Community News August 2023
+subtitle: Your monthly update for the FlowForge and Node-RED communities
+description: News from the FlowForge and Node-RED communities
+date: 2023-08-08
+authors: ["ian-skerrett"]
+image: "/images/blog/community-news.jpeg"
+tags:
+    - posts
+    - newsletter
+---
+
+Welcome to the FlowForge newsletter for August 2023, a monthly roundup of what’s been happening with FlowForge and the wider Node-RED community. 
+
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+
+## New Release
+
+Last week we released FlowForge 1.10, featuring improvements to our device management solutions and the new ability to import environment variable templates. Read about the details of FlowForge 1.10 in our [release announcement](https://flowforge.com/blog/2023/08/flowforge-1-10-release/). 
+
+## Upcoming events
+
+### Getting Started with OPC-UA and Node-RED
+
+OPC-UA is a popular communication protocol used to communicate industrial data between different types of hardware and software. Our next webinar show how to use Node-RED to create an OPC-UA client that can read OPC data and visualize the data in Node-RED. We are glad to welcome Mika Karaila, Research Director @ Valmet Automation and creator of the OPC-UA nodes, as our webinar speaker. 
+
+[Sign-up today](https://flowforge.com/webinars/2023/getting-started-opcua-node-red/) to join us on July 27. 
+
+
+## From our Blog
+
+- Our developer advocate, Richard Meyer, published a series of articles on OPC-UA:
+  - Part 1: [How to Deploy a Basic OPC-UA Server in Node-RED](https://flowforge.com/blog/2023/07/how-to-deploy-a-basic-opc-ua-server-in-node-red/)
+  - Part 2: [How to Build a Secure OPC-UA Server for PLCs in Node-RED](https://flowforge.com/blog/2023/07/how-to-build-a-secure-opc-ua-server-for-plcs-in-node-red/)
+  - Part 3: [How to Build an OPC UA Client Dashboard in Node-RED](https://flowforge.com/blog/2023/07/how-to-build-a-opc-client-dashboard-in-node-red/)
+
+
+
+- [First Pre-Alpha Release of the new Node-RED Dashboard](https://flowforge.com/blog/2023/07/dashboard-0-1-release/) - update on FlowForge's work to develop the next generation of Node-RED dashboard.
+
+- [How to add images to Node-RED dashboards when using FlowForge](https://flowforge.com/blog/2023/07/images-in-node-red-dashboards/) - some tips on how to add images to a dashboard when running Node-RED instances in a docker environment, like FlowForge.
+
+- [Creating a Historical Data Dashboard with InfluxDB and Node-RED](https://flowforge.com/blog/2023/07/influxdb-historical-data/) - an in-depth article on how to store historical data in InfluxDB that can be visualize with Node-RED dashboard.
+
+
+## From the Community
+
+- **Featured Node**: [Buffer Parser](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-buffer-parser) - a really useful node for parsing buffers/arrays that are common in industrial data.
+
+
+## Join Our Team
+FlowForge is expanding our team. Check out the current openings:
+
+- [Contract Front-End Engineer – Node-RED Dashboard](https://boards.greenhouse.io/flowforge/jobs/4911532004)