March 23, 2008 • 1:42 am Comments Off
I am very excited to be attending the next JMUG meeting on Wednesday 28 March! The venue is:
Australian Mathematical Science Institute
c/- The University of Melbourne
111 Barry Street, Carlton
You can read more about the agenda here, and if you are a Joomla! user in Melbourne, you can let people know you are attending here!
Filed under: Joomla! in Melbourne
March 13, 2008 • 9:43 pm 2
The storm in a teacup surrounding the website ratemycop.com appears to run on Joomla!
You can read the Valley Wag story here: http://valleywag.com/367201/go-daddy-is-fightin-mad
The website uses CommunityBuilder and Fireboard to allow users to make comments about their local police officers. Comments under the specific officers range from
“kind, courteous, good natured. everything you would expect from an exceptional police offer.”
to
This cop was performing an unwarranted search of my car. I informed him that it was unlawful, and he said,“The law? I am the law!”
Filed under: Other, Uncategorized
March 9, 2008 • 8:49 pm 5
I have been listening to the TWiT podcast for a long time now, and find it brilliant. I you have not listened to it before, it’s well worth subscribing to. Leo Laporte (the chief TWiT) also produces the most entertaining and informative Mac podcast MacBreak Weekly.
Anyway, my new favourite podcast is FLOSS Weekly, the TWiT Netcast Networks pocast about open source projects. It is now my dream to hear a FLOSS episode about Joomla! When this happens, my life will be complete.
Image above from twit.tv.
Filed under: Uncategorized
March 4, 2008 • 3:30 pm 1
Yesterday on the RMD Studio Blog, there is a very interesting post about their upcoming Social Networking technology for Joomla (among other open-source CMSs). Here’s an excerpt:
“…the packaged GPL version will take a bit longer. We would like to roll it out within the next 6 months or much earlier if possible.”
Read the full article here on the RMD Blog.
Update: Aristocrat (Rastin from RMD) posted this related message on the Joomla Development Group page, in the context of the Summer of Code:
“We have also started GPL projects of our own that need to
be launched soon“
Full thread here.
Filed under: Social Networking , Anahita, Social Networking
March 3, 2008 • 1:00 am 6
I have just posted in The Lounge section of the Joomla! Forums, inviting people interested in becoming contributors to this blog. You can read and reply to the post here: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=271225. (Thread deleted for breaking Forum guidelines about self promotion.) Here is what I posted:
Hello Joomla fans!
For the past few months, I have been working on an unofficial blog about Joomla! You can check it out here:
The reason I began this blog, was because I felt that there was a lack of enthusiast blogs about Joomla! that where not connected to businesses that produce templates, components, or books about Joomla. Many of these blogs are brilliant, and you can find them all by googling “Joomla Blogs”. After you go through the search results for joomla blogging extensions, you will come across them.
So anyway, I started My Joomla News, to try and be just as interesting as Amy Stephen’s http://opensourcecommunity.org/, it is a lot of fun, but I still feel like it should be more.
So I am putting out the call for fellow Joomla users to become contributors to the blog. So if you are interested in posting opinions about Joomla, sharing news about cool new extensions, and experiences about using Joomla that doesn’t quite fall into the category of a joomla forum post, let me know in this thread.
It will be brilliant to develop a communal blog all about Joomla that is as fun and interesting as the joomla community itself.
I also have a secret desire to be part of a Joomla podcast, as this is something our community is lacking. Especially since Joomla Jabber has broadened their focus to include all CMSs. Hopefully a group of Joomla bloggers working together will be able to achieve a Joomla podcast of the quality of TWiT (http://twit.tv/twit)
Cheers,
Nicholas.
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