JoomStew Radio at Joomla Day Chicago 2012 - Part 3

Part 3 in our Series covering JoomlaDay Chicago 2012 continues with a great discussion on how Joomla is being used by the Boston's Children's Hospital with the support of Cloudaccess.net. Next is a discussion from Gabe Wahhab and Luke Summerville of Savvy Panda who talk about Inbound Marketing. Randy Carey closes out this segment discussing User Experience in the Joomla Admin area.

Hosts:

Dianne Henning - QB Graphics
Sandra Ordonez - Collaborative Nation

Guest:

Sarah Maloney - Boston Children's Hospital
Jonathon Gaffill - Cloud Access

Gabe Wahhab - SavvyPanda.com
Luke Summerville - SavvyPanda.com

Randy Carey - Carey Tech

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JoomStew Radio at Joomla Day Chicago 2012 - Part 2

Today's JoomStew Radio continues our coverage of Joomla! Day Chicago 2012 with special guest Brian Prince, Principal Cloud Evangelist at Microsoft, who took some time to discuss how Microsoft is engaging the Open Source Software Community today through new programs like BizSpark, which provides software, support and visibility to new Startups.

Listen in to hear what this veteran conference speaker thinks of the Joomla Community and how Microsoft is changing it's culture to meet the needs of today's open source software developers.

Hosts:

Dianne Henning - QB Graphics

Sandra Ordonez - Collaborative Nation

Guest:

Brian Prince - Microsoft BizSpark

JoomStew Radio - Joomla Day Chicago 2012 - Part 2

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Joomla Day Chicago 2012 Opening Day

Image Credit: Jon Neubauer - Thanks Jon

This first session was a warm-up for Dianne and Sandra to get the party started early at Joomla Day Chicago held August 10th and 11th at the Chicago Marriott Midway.

To kick things off, Mike Demopoulos discusses how Sengistix not only uses Joomla for their consumer facing website, but also use Joomla for a customized secure intranet that allows their staff at the Sengistix response center to have a single point of contact to find any data they might need to assist an individual in an emergency. Listen in to learn more about how Joomla helped to make this possible.

The second half of this show is a great conversation with Tenko and Tina from www.siteground.com about what Joomla site owners should look for in a hosting provider and then moves into a discussion that highlights the comraderie and openness of the Joomla community. Oh, and drinking... there just might be drinking in the Joomla Community as well.

You can tell by the end of the session the girls were right back in stride, and it really shows when these 2 ladies are having fun. Glad to get this posted! Be sure to thank our sponsor www.joomlashowroom.com for helping JoomStew make an appearance at JoomlaDay Chicago, and special thanks to our guests for taking the time to stop by and share their stories with us.

Hosts:

Dianne Henning - QB Graphics

Sandra Ordonez - Collaborative Nation

Guests:

Mike Demopoulos - Sengistix.com

Tenko Nikolov - Siteground.com

Tina Kesova - Siteground.com

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Joomla Day Chicago 2012

This week's JoomStew Radio features the upcoming Joomla Day Chicago organizer Mike Carson. We sat down with Mike to find out what's going on with this year's 2 day Joomla Business Conference and Learning Expo.

With over 30 speakers scheduled between both days, it's sure to be a world class event you won't want to miss. Day 1 is geared toward larger corporate enterprise and education solutions that are using Joomla within their businesses. Day 2 is focused on the users and site integraters and will be more like a typical unconference style event.

Microsoft has stepped up to sponsor the Friday Night festivities and there's a full evening of Music and Entertainment scheduled for the attendees and their guests.

JoomStew Radio is proud to be sponsored by Mike and Joomla Showroom for this year's Joomla Day Chicago with Dianne in attendance flying the JoomStew Banner and wielding the famous white Snowball Microphone. Be sure to stop by and say Hi, she'll be perched high atop the vendor area at the top of the steps.

For those of you that haven't yet bought your ticket, there's still time left, and if you use the coupon code joomstew in all lower case, you can get an extra $20 off the 2 day ticket price! Thanks Mike!

Visit their website for more information and to purchase tickets to Joomla Day Chicago 2012.

Joomla Day Chicago 2012

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JoomLadies at J and Beyond 2012

The lost tapes from JoomStew at J and Beyond 2012 are back! After a hard drive failure followed by a graphics card glitch, I'm happy to report we're back on schedule. This week's episode features a great group of Ladies who participate in the Joomla project and community at various levels, from core code to owning businesses, and everything in between.

Included in the discussion are your host Dianne Henning and Sandy Ordonez, along with Melinda Ledbetter, Elin Waring, Marijka Stuivenberg, Grace Francisco and Sarah Watz.

Listen in on this fun session where the ladies discuss several topics about the open source project that is Joomla. It's one you won't want to miss.

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JoomStew Radio, live from JAB12, with Joe LeBlanc, Sandy Ordonez, Dianne Henning and Altansukh (Sukh) Tumenjargal

Continuing with Part Two of JoomStew at JAB12 held in Bad Nauheim, Germany from May 18-20, 2012. We are joined by Sarah Watz of PixPro.net, talking about the EU Cookie law that recently went into effect, and Hagen Graf of Cocoate.com, who told us of his recent experience at Joomla Day Iran, and Joe Sonne, aka JoeJoomla, who shared his impressions of his first international Joomla event.

A special thanks to Joe LeBlanc for the voiceover intros, and to Sandy Ordonez who joined Dianne Henning as a co-host for this series.

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JoomStew Radio at J and Beyond 2012

The 3rd Annual International Joomla Conference, J and Beyond, took place on May 18-20, 2012 in Bad Nauheim, Germany at the Dolce Hotel and Resort. JoomStew Radio was lucky enough to have Dianne Henning and Sandy Ordonez there to record some of the Joomla Rock Stars in attendance, and today is the start of the infamous JabStew 2012 Series.

In our first episode, we've got the event organizers Robert Deutz and Brian Teeman talking about how J and Beyond originally came together, along with OSM President Paul Orwig sharing his thoughts on the event. We also hear from several other guests at the table, including Chad Windnagle, who shares the progress of this year's Joomla Google Summer of Code.

This episode runs about 25 minutes long and should give you a good idea of the energy at this year's event. We've got about 5 to 6 shows worth of tape to publish, so look for another episode in a day or two!

Thanks to everyone for taking the time to visit with Dianne and Sandy at J and Beyond this year... And especially to you two ladies for doing such a great job as hosts.

If I didn't include you in the text above, don't hesitate to let folks know in the comments below!

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Square 1 CMS - Light Joomla Distribution

This week we sit down with 2 great developers within the Joomla Community, Jeremy Wilken and Joe LeBlanc. Both have been part of the Joomla Community for many years, and they have come together to collaborate on a new Joomla Distribution they call Square One CMS. Think of it as the latest Joomla build on a diet. No extensions ship with Square One except the User Manager, ACL and Article component. However, all of the Joomla default extensions are readily available in the Extensions manager and can be added with one click of the mouse.

The idea behind Square One, is to give site builders and developers a clean slate to build out your own distro of Joomla that you can deploy over and over again. Think of it as a Distribution you can use to build Distributions!

Listen in while we discuss how Square One came about, and where these guys plan on taking it in the future.

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Robert Vining: Sobi Templates

Dianne Henning: QBGraphics.com

Guests

Jeremy Wilken - Gnome on the Run

Joseph LeBlanc - Cory Webb Media

Joomla News

Open Source Matters has added four new board members, Ofer Cohen from Israel, Leonel Canton, from Guatemala, Paulo Griiettner, from Brazil and Thomas Hampton from the USA. Welcome to all!

The Joomla GSoC (Google Summer of Code) student projects for Joomla have been announced. The community can get involved in helping and assisting the students by joining the mailing list, giving them feedback on development mailing lists, and following the work in their github repositories.

Don’t forget the two big events happening in May! The CMSExpo from May 6-8, and J and Beyond from May 18-20. If you haven’t gotten your tickets yet, you can still grab a discount code from the JoomStew podcasts of each of these events.

ThemeForest and CodeCanyon are running a Joomla Template and Extension contest with over $10,000 in prizes. A great opportunity for developers to make a little extra money. You can find out more information on our Blog.

A new Joomla site will be added to the family... events.joomla.org is now up and Running! Congrats to the Events team for getting it launched!

Introductions

Jeremy - Tell us who you are, where you’re from and what you do please?

Joe - Tell us who you are, where you’re from and what you do please?

Topic Discussion - Introducing Square One CMS

Site: www.squareonecms.org

Github: https://github.com/square-one/square-one-cms

Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/square-one-cms

RV to Jeremy - Alright... so Jeremy, Square One CMS is described as a light Joomla distribution. Can you explain what that is and how it came about?

DH to Joe - When did you first notice Square One and start to get involved with the project?

RV to Jeremy - Who do you think benefits by using Square One? Is it geared toward site-builders, those new to Joomla, seasoned devs? Where’s the market niche for this?

DH to Joe - You’ve recently partnered with Jeremy with both of you joining Cory Webb Media. Congrats. Have you had a chance to use Square One in your work there?

RV to Jeremy - So now that you’ve gotten Square One trimmed down, what’s the next step for Square One? Where do you see it going over the next 6 months?

RV to Joe - Where would you like to see Square One improve Joe? Do you share Jeremy’s vision, or do you have a full-on ulterior motive?

DH to Jeremy - Have you seen much community support for S1 since you released the first stable version? Are you looking for volunteers in specific areas?

RV to Joe - I know Jeremy stated he hopes work done in Square One will make it back upstream to the Joomla project. Have you seen any support of that yet from the community or members of the joomla project?

DH to Jeremy - You’re again part of the J and Beyond Video team this year, will you also get a chance to do a presentation on Square One at JAB 2012?

RV to Joe - We mentioned Joomla and GSOC in the News earlier, are you participating in that this year? Can you talk a bit about that?

Working in the Community

The RCC (Regional Community Coordinators) is working on getting an oversight of all the regional communities that exist in the world. Although this work isn’t finished yet, the RCC will be contacting as many local community and JUG leaders as possible in order to learn from them, and enable them to share their experiences on how to set up and maintain local communities, translations, events and JUGs. The RCC is in formation now, check the Help Wanted forum later this month if you would like to get involved!

The Showcase site team has grown (http://community.joomla.org/showcase/) and they are encouraging sitebuilders to register and submit their Joomla websites for a potential selection as site of the month.

Submit your news

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CMSExpo: 2012 May 8–10, 2012, Chicago, Illinois

JoomStew Radio is proud once again to have John and Linda Coonen, founders of CMS Expo, as our special guests today on the show. They have spent the past 5 years building the web industry's most successful CMS focused conference. From the FOSS platforms you know and love, like Joomla, Drupal and WordPress, to a whole host of new CMS platforms both Open Source and Proprietary will be featured at this year's Expo.

If you depend on the web for your livelyhood, you don't want to miss this event. This year's conference has an allstar lineup, no matter whether you want to learn more about Mobile, or need to understand Content Strategy, CMS Expo has assembled the best in the business to bring you great information you won't find anywhere else.

Join us as we discuss a little about the History of CMS Expo, and then talk about what this year will bring. Settle in, it's a great show!

LISTEN UP! If you would like to save a little extra money on this year's Ticket, John and Linda have extended a special offer for JoomStew listeners. You can take advantage of an additional 10% off your ticket price by simply using the code STEW2012 when you checkout at www.cmsexpo.net!

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Hosts

Robert Vining: Sobi Templates

Dianne Henning: QBGraphics

Guests

John Coonen: www.cmsexpo.net

Linda Coonen: www.cmsexpo.net

Joomla News

• A First Look at the Mobile-Ready Joomla 3.0... Joomla 3.0 is due in September and one of the most important changes will be an overhaul of Joomla's design. Both the visitor and administrator areas are being re-designed from top-to-bottom. The next web revolution will be the mobile revolution. Read more: http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1568-30-first-look.html
• On April 28th, Joomla! will be represented at FLISoL, the Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre (Latin American free software install fest), which is the biggest event for promoting Software Libre since 2005. The event will happen simultaneously in different countries of Latin America. http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1567-joomla-presente-en-la-flisol-2012.html
• Google Summer of Code:The GSoC student submissions deadline is past and they are being reviewed - the accepted proposals/students should be announced on the 23rd. You can find the GSoC Schedule on the blog post: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2012

Topic Discussion

RV to John - This is the 6th Annual CMS Expo, can you give us a quick snapshot of  the history of the Expo? How did you get started?

DH to Linda - It seems the CMS Expo has become more and more popular each year. Can you talk a bit about the growth and how do you manage it all?

RV to John - Obviously with a name like CMS Expo, it’s more than just a Joomla, Drupal and WordPress conference. How many different CMS’ will you feature this year and how do you get them all to play nice together?

DH to Linda - I see you have a special event for Joomla specific topics, can you tell us a little more about that? What’s the Main focus this year? Do you have an overall theme?

RV to John - I know you’ve been a fan of Open Source for some time John, do you only offer FOSS learning tracks or do you also cover Proprietary systems as well?

DH to Linda - Would you say the conference is geared mostly toward developers or site builders, or is there something for everyone at the CMS Expo?

RV to John - So in just a few minutes, tell my why I should plop down my hard earned money to attend this year’s CMS Expo?

DH to Linda - Are you planning any after hours events this year? Are there things to see and do around the event?

RV to John and Linda - Any last words you want to share about this year’s CMS Expo?

Working in the Community

If you want to get involved, there are lots of ways to do that!

• Join the Site Showcase Team! It’s just a few hours a month and the only skill you need is the ability to recognize a Joomla site when you see one (a little experience with Mosets Tree helps, but isn't necessary). http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=681&t=710049
• Help Wanted in the Community... check the Joomla Forum for opportunities. http://forum.joomla.org/viewforum.php?f=681&sid=10b7cf221e27a8d885b9046a6cf89ed3
• Become an author! Write an article for the Joomla Community Magazine! The next deadline is April 23 for the May issue.  http://magazine.joomla.org

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J and Beyond 2012 - May 18th - 20th, 2012, Bad Nauheim, Germany

We sat down with two of the lead organizers of J and Beyond 2012, Robert Deutz and Brian Teeman, who shared with us a few upcoming treats in store for JAB12. This year's event runs from May 18th - 20th,  in Bad Nauheim, Germany, where Elvis Presley was based during his military stint. J and Beyond is an event geared towards developers and designers... In the words of Brian Teeman, "If you think you can't afford to go, you can't afford NOT to go!"

JOOMSTEW EXCLUSIVE - There are still tickets available, and as a special offer to JoomStew, Robert and Brian are offering the early-bird rate of 149 euros to the first 5 JoomStew listeners who sign up using the code joomstew . Go to www.jandbeyond.org now to take advantage of this special!

JoomStew will once again be recording live from JAB, so dust off your Blue Suede Shoes and join us in one of our panel discussions! Here are last year's JoomStew sessions from J and Beyond 2011.

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Hosts

Robert Vining: Sobi Templates
Dianne Henning: QBGraphics

Guests

Robert Deutz: http://www.rdbs.de
Brian Teeman: http://brian.teeman.net

Joomla News

• We are now up to Joomla 2.5.4, and with that we have a new and improved updater that has been added to core. Joomla! Update, is based on Nicholas Dionysopoulos’ experience dealing with updating across a wide variety of hosts using his Akeeba Backup, Kickstart and AdminTools. So, all of you who update to 2.5.4 will be able to use it to update to 2.5.5. Read more: http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1564-new-and-improved-updater.html
• This past week, it was announced that the Joomla core files have been downloaded more than 30 million times from Joomla.org! Joomla now averages around 1 million downloads every month. (NB: No records were kept from Sept 2005 - until sometime in 2007.)
• Google Summer of Code: The student deadline has passed, and the mentor deadline is just around the corner, April 20th! They are looking for high-quality developers who can commit to the summer schedule and mentor a student. More details: http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1560-join-our-google-summer-of-code-success-story.html

Topic Discussion

RV to RD - J and Beyond is now entering its 3rd year as a truly International Joomla Conference. From what we’ve seen, it’s been a huge success each year. How are things   for this year’s event?

DH to BT - Another great schedule has been posted for this year’s sessions. Can you talk a bit about the process you go through to determine the speakers and sessions you will host this year?

RV to RD - The PLT has scheduled another Roadmap meeting to coincide with this years J and Beyond conference and from the looks of the new schedule just released, you guys have added some breakout sessions to support that. Can you tell us a bit about your work with the Joomla PLT this year?

DH to BT - JAB created the Joomla Open Source Creative and Artistic Recognition awards that have become somewhat popular among the community. Can you tell us about the process for that and what’s changed this year? (Nominations for all these awards will be collected until 27th April.)

RV to RD - In the past, you’ve made available tickets and various sponsorships to attendees on a case by case basis. This year, you’ve established a Scholarship Program. Can you tell us a bit about how that’s going?

DH to BT - Will we see video again this year for the sessions? And, can we still get tickets to attend the event?

RV to RD - How’s sponsorship going for this year’s event?

DH to BT - Last year’s theme was the Knights of Open Source, this year you are basing it around Elvis Presley? Will we have a special musical evening?

Working in the Community

If you want to get involved, there are lots of ways to do that!

• Andy Tarr is leading the Roadmaps sessions at JAB12 this May. There is a call for a variety of proposed or existing Production Working Groups, even if you aren’t attending JAB, you can still join a working group! Check out the link: http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1559-joomla-roadmap-meeting-production-working-groups-a-lightning-talks.html
• Help Wanted in the Community... check the Joomla Forum for opportunities. http://forum.joomla.org/viewforum.php?f=681&sid=10b7cf221e27a8d885b9046a6cf89ed3
• Become an author! Write an article for the Joomla Community Magazine! http://magazine.joomla.org

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