# Community News April 2023

> A roundup of April 2023 news from the FlowFuse and Node-RED communities, covering platform updates and community highlights.

Welcome to the FlowFuse newsletter for April 2023, a monthly roundup of what’s been happening with both FlowFuse and the wider Node-RED community.

## Upcoming events

### Node-RED Ask Me Anything

Back by popular demand, FlowFuse is hosting a monthly Node-RED Ask Me Anything session on April 13th. This is a great opportunity to ask Nick O’Leary, co-creator of Node-RED & FlowFuse CTO, and Rob Marcer, Node-RED FlowFuse Developer Educator your questions about Node-RED.

### Connect, Integrate, Visual Industrial Production Metrics with Node-RED

Join Steve McLaughlin from FlowFuse as he showcases how easy it is to use Node-RED to visualize popular production metrics using Node-RED. [Register today](/webinars/2023/industrial-data-node-red/).

## From our Blog

[Comparing Node-RED Dashboards Solutions](/blog/2023/03/comparing-node-red-dashboards/) - A popular article comparing Node-RED Dashboard, uibuilder and FlexDash.

[IBM Cloud removes Node-RED starter application](/blog/2023/03/ibmcloud-starter-removed/) - IBM has discontinued their Node-RED Starter Application, discover how to migrate to FlowFuse.

[The benefits and drawbacks of using Node-RED function nodes](/blog/2023/03/why-should-you-use-node-red-function-nodes/) - Node-RED function nodes provide a great deal of flexibility in Node-RED. Discover the benefits and drawbacks of using them.

[FlowFuse 15. Now Available](/blog/2023/03/flowforge-1-5-0-released/) - FlowFuse 1.5 included updates to the UI and architecture to allow for future features.

Node-RED Quick Tips - Rob Marcer, FlowFuse Developer Educator has a weekly series of Node-RED hints and tips

- [Node-RED Tips - Importing, Exporting, and Grouping Flows](/blog/2023/03/3-quick-node-red-tips-5/)
- [Node-RED Tips - Smooth, Catch, and Math](/blog/2023/03/3-quick-node-red-tips-4/)

## From the Community

### Quantum for Node-RED

Discover how you can incorporate [quantum technologies](https://theailaboratory.wordpress.com/2023/03/24/quantum-for-everyone/) into your Node-RED flows.

### Image recognition within Node-RED

Kazuhito Yokoi, a researcher at Hitachi, has published an [interesting article](https://kazuhitoyokoi.medium.com/sharing-node-red-flow-of-image-recognition-application-on-github-4d667cdea9f7) detailing how to incorporate TensorFlow into a Node-RED application to do image recognition.

### Custom Node Spotlight - node-red-contrib-web-worldmap

If you would like to include a map in your next project Worldmap is a really good place to start. You can pass coordinates in to set the map to a location or you can use the built in search tool to find a location. As a user manipulates the map a stream of updated coordinates can be passed back to your flows to trigger additional actions. It's a really useful tool, take a [look here](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-web-worldmap).

## Join Our Team

FlowFuse is expanding our team. Check out the current openings:

- **Developer Advocate - Manufacturing & Industrial Automation**