"I'm sorry we missed the meeting last night, however we were able to watch via the live steam which was EXCELLENT." was the response to a first time experiment by the Joomla User Group Brisbane.  The 23 in the room were joined by around 75 other people from Australia and possibly around the world - an awesome result given the live telecast was not really promoted.  The streaming, via

The Melbourne Joomla User Group are beginning a series of occasional skypecasts with Joomla luminaries, developers, experts and enthusiasts around the world.

Pete Nurse has organised the first Melbourne Joomla Expert skype cast for Saturday April 18th at AMSI (where we have the monthly MJUG meeting).

This month we'll be skype conferencing with Amy Stephen, who's on the Joomla! Communications...

The next meeting of the Melbourne Joomla User Group will be on Wednesday April 22nd from 6:30pm.

Topic: Check back soon!

Photo Gallery Show Down

The Photo Gallery Show Down at the March 2009 New England Joomla! User Group meeting was full of great information.  Some of our User Group members showed the various photo galleries they have used in their Joomla! sites.

Romola Chrzanowski started things off by showing us where she has used Phat Fusion. She then went on to show us a photo gallery from Coffee Cup that...

Four Joomla fans and a conscript spouse got together at Mulligan's in Mississauga last night for JUGT's third Pub Night. Matthew Redican took a picture or two, we'll update if he sends them along to us.

The meeting must have been a success as we didn't wrap up until the staff came along just before midnight advertising last call.

The group advanced plans to start organizing formal meetings that...

Buliding Community sites: what works/doesn't, extensions you can use, good sites and your experiences. Also, we're looking at re-building this site in Jom_social so let's discuss this. We are also cranking up a site for Sydney JoomlaDay soon, so you can all have your say - it's a communtiy event!

In case you hadn't heard, Joomla 1.5.10 looks to be ready soon.

Keep an eye on the Joomla Forum Announcements board for details and upgrade instructions.

The next meeting of the Melbourne Joomla User Group will be on Wednesday March 25th from 6:30pm.

Our key topics this month... more coming soon.

• Joomla evolves through developers creating patches. So let's adopt a patch and make Joomla better! As a User Group, we'll go through the various aspects of the development process to create or extend some existing functionality.
  
• Two ideas: Joomla!...

Joomla Day New England: Latest News

We have a schedule! We have logistics! The website is almost ready!

Do join us on May 30, 2009, 9 AM to 4 PM, at the Marlboro College Graduate Center (MCGC) in Brattleboro, Vermont. The cost will be $45.

Our speaker list includes:

• Mitch Pirtle, VP of Development, KickApps
• Rob Schley, Joomla Core Team Member and Open Source Matters Vice President
  
• Elin Waring, Open...