Last week Mark wrote the first Production Working Group Leadership status blog. At last Saturday's meeting, for some strange reason I volunteered to write one this week.
Work continues on 1.6. As Mark stated last week, the biggest task remaining for the release of 1.6 is ACL. The other night Louis showed me some mockups of one of the UI widgets and they look quite sharp. It is pretty...
The Global Moderators would like to announce a new addition to the Global Moderator team.
Olaf Offick (aka ooffick) has graciously accepted our request to join the team stating, "I would be honored".
We, the Joomla community, are very grateful for the time and effort that Olaf has contributed to the project. He represents the true spirit of "giving back" to an Open Source community.
Please join...
There are many times when one can't help but be impressed by the Joomla! spirit. On September 29-30, 2009, the great people in the Mongolian Joomla! community will be celebrating their Joomla! pride with their first annual Joomla!Day Mongolia. One of the most impressive announcements forthcoming at this Joomla!Day: the showcase of the more than 200 Mongolian government Web sites that have...
The Joomla! community will be gathering in Pretoria, Gauteng on 8, 9 & 10 October 2009 for another exciting and interesting Joomla! Day. The balanced programme will include topics suitable for new/potential Joomla! users through to experienced Joomla! web site developers.
The Questions & Answers sessions are particularly fruitful - tap into the wealth of knowledge in participants heads! Come...
Sydney JoomlaDay 2009 conference (Sat 17th Oct) and workshops (Sun 18th Oct)
Conference
This our third year and it's a HUGE one. We have a fantastic speaker line-up of Joomla core team, including Andrew Eddie, Sam Moffat and Brad Baker, and hand-picked industry experts, including Steve Burge of Alledia.com, working alongside inspiring presentations of real-life success stories from our local...
It's time to vote for Joomla! in the annual Packt Publishing CMS Awards.
There are two places to vote:
We love saying that Joomla! is an award-wining CMS, and I'm sure lots of you do to, so let's get the vote out.
Also, this year you can vote on extensions and templates. We had to nominate five of each, and it was really hard because of all the great...
It's already a tradition, that on the second Saturday of October the Hungarian Joomla! users come together on their Joomla!Day, or Joomla!Nap in Hungarian. This year it will take place on October 10, from 10.00 am CET to 5.00 pm CET in Hungary, organized by Joomla! User Association Hungary (JUAH). The last year venue worked well, so we decided to return to CEU Conference Center, Budapest.
Hi everyone. This is the first of what we hope will be regular blogs to let you know what the Production Leadership Team is working on. In case you missed it, we're the people who coordinate the development, documentation, communications, bug squashing, and translation efforts for Joomla.
Currently, we are hard at work getting version 1.6 ready. To that end, we are meeting weekly to sort out...
On December 11 & 12, 2009, we are preparing a weekend packed with presentations, workshops and catering for the entire Joomla community—from beginners to developers. All will occur at "Espai Jove de Gràcia" in Barcelona. Learn more and register online at http://www.joomladay.info.
Third party developers are vital to the success of Joomla!. To be effective developing extensions you need up to date information about developments in the Joomla! core and how to work effectively and using best practices when extending it. With this in mind, the Joomla! Project is tentatively planning a conference for third party developers on Saturday and Sunday December 5 and 6 in New York...
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