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Highly Successful French Joomla Community is Holding Joomla Day France This Weekend
Yes, this weekend it's time for Joomla Day France held in Lyon. This year will mark the 5th Joomla Day France so congratulations are in order for the whole French Joomla Community.
To mark the occasion, we talked with Nicolas Ogier who is helping to organize weekend's event. If you want to know more, go to http://www.joomladay.fr.
1) Tell us a...
JPeople Communication Manager
JPeople would like to announce our new Communication Manager, Isidro Baquero.
Isidro has been a member of the JPeople translation team since the very early days. He has been a profound help in the Spanish community on the site where he works to assist those members. He is also a local moderator of the International Spanish forums...
Giving Thanks for Community Help Documenting Governments Using Joomla!
I'm constantly traveling from one event to another, and many times I find myself in front of a crowd of government leaders and managers interested in using Joomla! within their agencies. At each of these events, I receive the typical question one would expect: "so, which governments around the world are using Joomla, Ryan?" For...
Interview with John Coonen from CMS Expo
This year we've been interviewing people who run Joomla Days around the world.
There are also unofficial conferences happening all the time that feature Joomla heavily and we're going to try and introduce them here also. These unofficial conferences won't get the same level of publicity as official Joomla Days, but it's useful for the community to...
J and Beyond 2011 - an International Joomla Conference
J and Beyond is an international Joomla conference taking place in the Netherlands in early May.
The first J and Beyond conference was held in Germany last year and was a huge success, attracting Joomla developers from all over the world.
We spoke with Robert Deutz, one of the organizers, about this year's event:
Monaco Yacht Show Uses Joomla
The Monaco Yacht Show is the most presitigious superyacht show in the world.
Superyacht are yachts from 25 meters to over 90 meters long.
This year will be the 21st year of the event which attracts over 30,000 participants to Moncao, the small principality in the south of France.
Their new website for the event runs in Joomla: http://www.monacoyachtsh...
Barnes Noble Uses Joomla
Barnes & Noble is the largest book retailer in the United States with over 1300 stores. Their company history goes back to 1873.
They're also known for the Nook e-book reader that was launched in 2009. The company is encouraging developers to create apps for the Nook and as part of that effort they've just launched a new Nook Developer site,...
Exact Software Uses Joomla
Before every Joomla Day this year we're featuring a major Joomla site from the country hosting the event. This weekend is Joomla Day Netherlands and they actually have six high-profile Joomla sites.
Exact Software is a Dutch company that moved all it's sites over to Joomla this week. Exact provides business management software and they emply over...
Outstanding Dutch Joomla Community Celebrates Sixth Joomla Day
Looking for the most active and successful Joomla community in the world? There's a good chance you'll find it in the Netherlands.
The community in the Netherlands and Belguim runs multiple Joomla User Groups and this weekend will hold its sixth Joomla Day. Hundreds of open source experts, business users, developers, and community users will be...
Joomla Day New England
Yes, this weekend it's time for Joomla Day New England held in Vermont, U.S.. Before the event, we spoke with Jen Kramer who's helping to organize the Joomla Day. Click here for more about the event.
1) Tell us a little about yourself and your background
I've been building websites for 11 years now, and building with Joomla since the Mambo days. I...
Eiffel Tower Uses Joomla
Joomla Day France is this weekend and this year we've been celebrating each Joomla Day by featuring a local Joomla site.
This week we have a particularly big site: the official Eiffel Tower website runs on Joomla: http://www.tour-eiffel.fr. Wikipedia says the tower is "the most-visited paid monument in the world; millions of people ascend it every...
Joomla Community Magazine | June 2011
The June installment of the Joomla Community Magazine is here!
Joomla! is a huge, worldwide community, encompassing many languages and many cultures. When we are able to work and collaborate together, we can do amazing things with incredible results. When we bring our joy into what we do, it is shared with all.
In this issue:
Editor’s Introduction
Joomla Community Magazine | May 2011
IN THIS ISSUE:
- Lessons about openness and transparency from a budget discussion, written by Paul Orwig
- Nicholas G. Antimisiaris...
Joomla! Community Magazine | April 2011
The April issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here!
IN THIS ISSUE:
A special thanks to the members of our Joomla! community who contributed articles to this month's issue: Eric Lamy, Dmitry Strizhov, Andrew Eddie, Hagen Graf, Sean Redfearn, Victor Drover, Jarrod Nettles, and Chad Windnagle.
Editor’s Introduction Get Open, written by Cristina...
Joomla! Community Magazine | March 2011
The March installment of the Joomla Community Magazine is here!
IN THIS ISSUE:
Thanks to the members of the Joomla! community who are contributing authors in this month's issue: Abolhassan Firoozmandan, Hagen Graf, Grigor Mihov, Denys Nosov, Nick Savan, Joe Sonne, Jeremy Wilken, Mehmet Yazici.
Editor’s Introduction:
Inspiration, and the Winds of...
Joomla! Community Magazine | February 2011
The February issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here!
IN THIS ISSUE:
Thanks to the members of the Joomla! community who are contributing authors in this month's issue: Manolis Markatselas, Peter Bui, Jarrod Nettles, Anh Tuan Bui, and Nicholas Dionysopoulos.
Editor’s Introduction
Coming together to announce a new era... by Paul Orwig
Featur...
Joomla!® 1.6 Has Arrived!
Joomla!® 1.6.0 is now available for immediate download.
This new version of Joomla includes more power, more control, and more options than ever before.
Rebuilt from the ground up in much of the application, this latest Joomla release will delight the casual site builder while helping small, medium, and enterprise businesses succeed in delivering...
The Offical Joomla! Book is Available at Amazon
In October 2010 Joomla!Press, an alliance between Open Source Matters and Pearson Publishing, was announced to the community.
Now, The Joomla! Project is proud to announce that the Official Joomla! Book, the first in the series of publications, was released for sale at Amazon and InformIT on December 23, 2010. The same day the book was ...
Joomla! Community Magazine | January 2011
The January issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here!
IN THIS ISSUE...
A special thanks to the members of the Joomla! community who are contributing authors in this month's issue: Theo van der Zee.
Editor’s Introduction
Joomla! - We Keep It Movin' by Cristina Solana
Feature stories
Alice Grevet invites us to Party Like It's Joomla! 1.6
Jon...
Joomla Community Magazine | July 2011
The July installment of the Joomla Community Magazine is here! Here are the stories in this issue:
Editor's Introduction
Happy first birthday, Joomla! Community Magazine!, by Paul Orwig
Feature Stories
Joomla! 1.7 - Division or Fission?, by Hagen Graf
Outsider's View of Joomla!, by Chad Windnagle
Website Case Studies
Website Case Study: Shark Zone, by...
Government of Greece Uses Joomla
Before every Joomla day this year, we're featuring a major Joomla site from the event's location.
This weekend is Joomla Day Greece which takes place on May 28 and 29 in Athens. Find out more at http://joomladay.gr.
Joomla!Day Greece 2011 Recap
When the opportunity presented itself for me to speak at Joomla!Day Greece on May 28-29, 2011, I hopped at the chance to be there. Having kicked-off two Joomla!Days in the US myself back in 2007, I know how much preparation and anxiety can rest on the shoulders of organizers for these inaugural events. How many people will show up?...
Women's Refugee Commission
Zuno Studios designed and developed this website using the Joomla! CMS, allowing for the client and our...
What You Need To Know About Joomla 1.7
In case you had not heard, Joomla 1.7 will be released on July 19, 2011. This is the first release under Joomla's new 6-month release schedule.
1. Should I update my Joomla 1.6 site to Joomla 1.7?
Absolutely you should. In fact, you must. Joomla 1.6 will reach the end of its life in August 2011, just a month away. After that, Joomla 1.6 will have no...
Where is the code? Where is the tracker?
With the new development strategy there has been a lot of renaming and reorganizing of development resources for the different groups working on development and for people who want to contribute bug reports, patches, features and documentation. In this post I’m going to point you to some of the new and renamed places for things.
Code
First, the...
Multilang in 1.7 What's new?
1.6 has brought a simple but efficient way to implement a multilang site in Joomla!®.
See the tutorial.
1.7 goes further.
- Some bugs were corrected in the languagefilter plugin
- The Language switcher module has new display possibilties. Drop-down for the languages, use of short names like FR, EN, etc.
- Ordering was added in the Language...
Even More 1.7 Features
If you look at the 1.7 beta, which was released recently, you may want to know where to look for new features. In 1.7 most of the changes, even though technically features, are really enhancements of existing functions, making them work better for site users, site administrators and developers. I posted recently about some of them, but here are...
Joomla!Day Malaysia 2011 Recap
Some people might say my presentations are a bit "different". I just think I enjoy an "energized" presentation like everyone else, and I know when open source folks are asked to listen to a keynote at 9am on a Saturday, something more than coffee is needed to keep them awake. So I'm keen on doing my best to keep the audience happy with...
Peeking at 1.7
It’s less than a month until Joomla! CMS 1.7 is scheduled for release, and developers have been busy writing, testing and committing new features, working on the platform, and fixing bugs. So what are some of those new features? There’s something for everyone, webmasters, developers, and designers. Let’s take a look at a few of them.
As soon as...
JED Listing Redesign and Enhanced Features
The JED is planning to redesign the listing details pages and offer enhanced premium features to the community. The individual listing pages haven’t really grown with the needs of the extensions which are listed and the users that are reviewing them, so we have decided to change that.
So, what’s the plan?
We are planning to...
Joomla Ranks Strongly in CMS Market Share Studies
As the year 2010 draws to a close, we are pleased to share two recent reports comparing numerous CMS solutions where Joomla! proves to be a top contender:
Idealware (www.idealware.org) is a non-profit organization in the US that provides software research for the non-profit community. This report, titled “2010 Comparing Open Source C...
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