Last week, Kyle Ledbetter gave an amazing presentation covering the standard set of core UI elements for the frontend and the backend of Joomla! 3.0. Kyle is a principal usability engineer at Ebay and leader of the massive JUX effort. You can access the recorded version on the Joomla! Youtube channel. Kyle explained how the new UI is not simply a front end or back end template, but rather a set of common UI elements for everyone. He explained how developers can contribute to the JUI core, and help to maintain the best practice of using a common UI, if they note a missing element. Please stay tuned as there will be a follow up webinar on this project.

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Over the last few years, a lot of work has gone into Joomla's social media resources, particularly Twitter and Facebook.

We now have over 75,000 Facebook fans and 33,000 Twitter followers.

As these social channels get busier, we're looking for additional help in managing these five Joomla accounts:

• Twitter: http://twitter.com/joomla
• Facebook: http://facebook.com/joomla
• Google+: https://plus.google.com/112939345266070287086/posts
• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Official-Joomla-Users-Group-52867
• YouTube: http://youtube.com/joomla

With Twitter we simply need help posting.

With the other four networks we need help posting but also moderating.

Please click here and post on this thread in the Joomla forums if you can help.

You're invited to learn about the future of the Joomla! User Interface!

Until the upcoming release of Joomla! 3.0, Joomla! has lacked a common User Interface (UI) for components, which has led to an inconsistent User Experience (UX). The Joomla! User eXperience (JUX) group is hosting a free & live webinar on Thursday, June 7, 2012 at 16:00 - 17:00 pm UTC (click for your local time) to illustrate how the new common UI, based on Boostrap by Twitter, will affect and benefit the Joomla! community. Register Now! Space is limited.

JandBeyond 2012 wrapped up just a week ago and it was a third, highly successful, year for the event.

JandBeyond 2012 surpassed all their previous records and will be back again to try and do even better in 2013.

Congratulations to the organizers and to the attendees who came from around the world.

If you weren't able to make, we hope to see you next year! In the meantime, here's a round-up of articles and multimedia from the event.

If you want your JandBeyond response added to the list, tweet a link @joomla and we'll add it here.

We incorporated Joomla Roadmap meetings as part of the J and Beyond conference held in Germany recently. The Joomla Roadmap meetings are part of an effort to help organize and encourage the efforts of volunteers and to move Joomla development in directions where the community wants to go. Thanks to the coordinators and volunteers whose work makes this a success!

These meetings were structured to be working meetings where we could take actual steps forward to accomplishing goals that people were interested in. We started with several lightning talks on topics as diverse as Update & Migration, Multi-site, User Experience, JavaScript, Unit Tests for the CMS, Search, Unified Content Model (UCM) and Web Services. The following morning we held breakout sessions for people interested in each of these topics, followed by recaps of what was accomplished and what the next steps were that the groups would be taking.

Each of the groups comes together as a Production Working Group. You can find more information on the groups at http://docs.joomla.org/Production_Working_Groups including how you can join the effort.

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