Joomla Day Austin 2011

The first ever Joomla Day Austin occurred on September 15, 2011 in Downtown Austin, Texas at the Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz. The venue is unique to most Joomla days as it is an old theatre that has been restored and updated with new seating and amenities that allow for group events to be held.

Another unique idea to Joomla Day Austin was the continuous single-stage presentation format. Due to the unique venue having only 1 stage on which to present, event organizers Kyle and Melinda Ledbetter worked with members of the Austin Joomla Users Group to come up with a format that would have 2 Presenters at the same time for each session throughout the day.

In addition, each session tied together to showcase a complete site redesign of the Minis and Friends website from start to finish. The website was chosen by the Austin JUG members from a group of local Non-Profits who were in need of a website makeover.

The Event turned out to be a huge success from the eyes of both the event organizers and the attendees. Listen in to the podcast and hear the reaction from many of the presenters and the recipients of the free website makeover as well.

Thanks to Kyle and Melinda Ledbetter for allowing us to record this podcast on location, and to all of the guests for taking time to talk to our hosts. Last, but certainly not least, I want to thank Jen Kramer and Dianne Henning for once again taking the time and effort to bring this podcast to you folks here on JoomStew Radio.

Read on to listen to the Joomla Day Austin Podcast.

JoomStew Radio Joomla Day Austin 2011 Podcast

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Hosts:

Dianne Henning: Hosting Paris

Jen Kramer - Joomla 4 Web

Guests:

Sally Iwanski - Minis and Friends

Tim McReynolds - Minis and Friends

Jeremy Wilken - Gnome on the Run

Alex Andreae - Source Coast

Ryan Ozimek - Open Source Matters

Jon Coonen - CMS Expo

Cory Webb - Cory Webb Media

Brian Edgerton - Edge Web Works

Kyle Ledbetter - Joomla Day Austin

Melinda Ledbetter - Joomla Day Austin

Joe LeBlanc - Joe LeBlanc

Mike Carson - Joomla Showroom

Wordpress is Not Equal to Joomla

Well, it looks like we are finally going to make the move from WordPress to Joomla starting this week. We will not be posting a show over the next few weeks, and hopefully this will be the last blog post on this platform.

Dianne suggested we should make a case study out of this experience, so taking her idea one step farther, I decided I would do a live blog series over on my business site at Roberts Web Design.

So if you want to know the details of how we are migrating from WordPress 3.2 to Joomla 1.5, then Joomla 1.6 and finally Joomla 1.7 when it's released in a few weeks, you can follow along there. Here's the first post in the series:

Migrating From WordPress 3.1 to Joomla 1.7 - Part 1

Joomla Development with Andrew Eddie

JoomStew Radio had the opportunity to sit down this week with one of the Lead Developers of the Joomla! project, Andrew Eddie. It's always a great pleasure to speak with Andrew, and today's show was no different.

Joomla will be releasing Joomla 1.7 in the next 30 days, and we got a chance to talk to Andrew about the new release, the changes in the Development Release Cycle, the Framework Separation, Ebay and Microsoft involvement in the Joomla Project and his thoughts on Forks based on Joomla code.

I'd like to take a minute to give special thanks to my co-hosts Dianne Henning and Alice Grevet for all they do to keep this place going. Without them, we wouldn't have a show and I'd be off doing something else by now. Thanks Ladies.

As always, thanks to Andrew for taking the time to share his thoughts with us, it's never a boring show when we get a chance to speak with you.

Now check out the latest JoomStew Radio show below!

Hosts

Robert Vining: Sobi Templates
Alice Grevet: Hosting Paris
Dianne Henning: Hosting Paris

Guests

Andrew Eddie http://www.theartofjoomla.com

JoomStew Radio - State of Joomla Development with Andrew Eddie Podcast

JoomStew Radio - State of Joomla Development with Andrew Eddie - Mp3 Download

http://www.joomstew.com/podcast/2011/joomstew_06-22-2011_jdev.mp3

Joomla News

• Congratulations to Andrea Tarr and Omar Ramos on joining the PLT. We are looking forward to the new CLT member announcements!
• Peeking at 1.7 - With less than a month until Joomla!  CMS 1.7 you can get a quick look at the Community blog on joomla.org from Elin Waring
• All Together As A Whole has opened a Translation Center for all open source projects that are related to Joomla!. Read more on ATAAW: http://www.alltogetherasawhole.org/group/translators/forum/topics/joomlar-beyond-english-and

Joomla Events

• JoomlaDay Malaysia - June 25th The great event up high in the sky!
• JoomlaDay Chicago - August 5 - 6 Lots of folks heading that way following the Leadership Summit.
• Joomla Day Bosnia and Herzegovina - Friday, Aug 12th - Sunday, Aug 14th... This is the first event held in Bosnia... be there!

Introductions

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

Topic Discussion

• Joomla 1.7 Release - What can we expect from the new Joomla 1.7 release due July 10th? It seems the community has stepped up to add features to this release, instead of relying solely on what we’ve called ‘core’ developers in the past. Is that the case?
• New Developers Release Cycle - Most of the Joomla Community understands the concept of 6 month Short Term releases and a Long Term Release every 18 Months, although my clients are still a bit baffled by it. But this will be our first true 6 month release, with 1.7. Can you talk about who is leading the release and does it seem like the ‘new’ way of doing things is working?

• Joomla Platform - Can you tell us about the Framework separation that went into this release? Will it be a separate download? Will Joomla still work?
• What is the Framework exactly, and what does it do? Is this something where community members can get involved? If so, how?

• Ebay and Microsoft both have become more supportive of Joomla through sponsorship of JoomlaDays and other events, and both have signed a Joomla Contributors Agreement in recent months. Do you see this as a positive move for the Joomla Project? Is there anything we should be mindful of, having such big corporate entities so closely involved in the project?

• Let’s take a stab at forks. There is a growing number of Joomla-dependent or Joomla-related applications, but no one has called theirs a fork. What’s your position on forking the code of an open source project like Joomla?

Working in the Community

• Following this interview here is the developer link on how you can get started: http://developer.joomla.org/getting-started.html
  
• Check out the Help Wanted topic in the forum: http://forum.joomla.org/viewforum.php?f=681 For example, if you would like to help on the bug squad, you don’t necessarily have to be a programmer. You can help track issues, test some proposed bug fixes. You need to be reasonably familiar with using Joomla and willing to learn new skills.
• There is a full list of involvement entry points listed on the June JCM editorial page, http://magazine.joomla.org
• The JCM deadline is June 23rd for the July issue! We welcome your articles!

Submit your news

If YOU have news we can use, send it to us via the Submit Your News! form on the JoomStew website.

Getting to Know Nooku Server

This week JoomStew Radio sat down with Johan and Tom Janssens to discuss the upcoming Nooku Server release, a Joomla! 1.5 distribution.  It's always a good show when Johan stops by, but this week's show has a lot of great information on what we can expect in the upcoming Alpha 3 version of Nooku Server.

Tom is the lead UI/UX Designer for the Nooku Server release and with the help of the Nooku developer community has implemented a truckload of updates to the Administrator area that will make our lives easier. There's also a lengthy discussion in the last half hour of the show on the topic of ACL that you will certainly want to listen to as well.

This was by far the longest show we've done to date, but we just couldn't bring ourselves to split it up into 2 shows. So get ready for an hour and half long podcast!

Thanks again to Tom and Johan for taking the time to sit down with us to discuss Nooku Server, we learned so much, and hope our listeners do as well!

Hosts

Robert Vining: Sobi Templates
Dianne Henning: Hosting Paris

Guests

Johan Janssens - Nooku.org
Tom Janssens - Nooku.org

JoomStew Radio Getting to Know Nooku Server

JoomStew Radio Getting to Know Nooku Server MP3 Download

http://www.joomstew.com/podcast/2011/joomstew_06-08-2011_nooku-server.mp3

Joomla! News

• Joomla! 1.7 alpha has been released and is available for download and testing. The biggest update for 1.7 is under the hood with the separation of the Framework from the CMS. Get it here:
  http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5372-joomla-17-alpha-released.html

• The Joomla! Shop has a few ACL 1.6 t-shirts left, they are now collector’s items and they are going fast! Get yours with 50% off by using the code: jcm50off

• Look for an announcement about the re-design of the OSM web site.... Joomla will be asking for input from the community... you can find out more on JPeople: http://people.joomla.org/groups/viewdiscussion/1240-OSM+web+site+redesign.html?groupid=579g.

Joomla! Events:

• The tallest Joomla Day in the world, Joomla Day Malaysia 2011 will be held at The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, June 25th.

• Joomla Night Chile, July 6.... this event will also be streamed live. Details to be posted.  http://joomlanight-chile.cl

• Joomla Day Chicago will be held on Friday, August 5th and Saturday, August 6th, 2011. This event will offer a pre-conference Joomla training class for those that would like to get up to speed quickly before the conference.

• Joomla Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina will be held in Tesanj from Friday, August 12th - Sunday, August 14th.

• Joomla! Day Cape Town, South Africa dates have been confirmed for Friday, August 19th and Saturday, August 20th. Details will be announced on their website http://www.joomladay.co.za

• If YOU have news we can use, send it to us via the Submit Your News! form on the JoomStew website.

Working in the Community

• This month’s issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine has a ton of information on how you can get involved. For a synopsis, go to magazine.joomla.org and see the editorial.  http://magazine.joomla.org/issues/Issue-June-2011/item/477-J-is-for-Joy

• Very specifically, there is a new Help Wanted section in the community forum, where particular positions will be posted: http://forum.joomla.org/viewforum.php?f=681. Check in regularly to see where your help might be needed!

JoomStew Radio – Molajo - A New Direction

Today, JoomStew Radio is proud to have several members from the Molajo team as our guests. They explain what Molajo is (and isn't), who's behind it, and who the target market is. This is a show for everyone, from site builders to developers. A lively discussion covering all things Molajo ensued.... templates for Molajo, core extensions, Joomla! extensions, the extension builder, and how to get involved with Molajo.

Amy Stephen sums it by saying, "The Molajo project is just the start of what we will see with developers collaborating using the Joomla! Framework. We really appreciate this opportunity to share with the Joomla! Community what we are working on, and why, and how to get involved when the time comes. Thanks to Robert, Dianne, and Alice for having us on the show. Go Joomla!"!

Hosts

Robert Vining: Sobi Templates
Alice Grevet: Hosting Paris
Dianne Henning: Hosting Paris

Guests

Amy Stephen
Cristina Solana
Babs Gösgens
Klas Berlič
Matt Thomas

JoomStew Radio - Molajo - A New Direction Podcast

JoomStew Radio - Molajo - A New Direction Podcast - MP3 Download

http://www.joomstew.com/podcast/2011/joomstew-05-25-2011-molajo.mp3

Joomla! News

• As you all know by now, JAB11 was held in Kerkrade, The Netherlands from May 6th to May 8th: www.jandbeyond.org. There is a lot to share from the conference; photos, videos and J.O.S.C.A.R. award winners! We here at JoomStew would like to thank all of you who sat down with us and got “Stewed” at JAB11.
• For a great pool of photos, visit the JAB11 Flickr group.
• The session videos are being compiled at the JAB11 Vimeo Group.Thank you, Jeremy Wilken, for all the time you have put into the videos, and to the 12 volunteers who recorded all the awesome sessions at JAB11.
• Kristoffer Sandven’s blog, JoomlaBlogger.net offers an excellent video overview of some of the attendees’ impressions.
• And, a HUGE congratulations to all of the J.O.S.C.A.R. (Joomla! Open Source Creative and Artistic Recognition) award winners!
• The Joomla! Shop is offering 50% off every item using the code jcm50off while supplies last!

Joomla! Events

• The first (ever) official JoomlaDay Greece 2011 event is coming up this weekend, Friday, May 28th and Saturday, May 29th.
• The tallest Joomla Day in the world, Joomla Day Malaysia 2011 will be held at The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, June 25th.
• Another first, Joomla Day Chicago will be held on Friday, August 5th and Saturday, August 6th, 2011. This event will offer a pre-conference Joomla training class for those that would like to get up to speed quickly before the conference.
• And yet another first, Joomla Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina will be held in Tesanj on Friday, August 12th - Sunday, August 14th.
• If YOU have news we can use, send it to us via the Submit Your News! form on the JoomStew website.

Working in the Community

• If you would like to contribute as a developer you will find the Development Strategy has been updated, link is included here: http://developer.joomla.org/strategy.html
• Reminder: the J.O.S.C.A.R. award winning Joomla! Community Magazine deadline is the 23rd of the month for the 1st of the month publication. Sign up to become an author!

JoomStew Show Sponsors

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Wilco Jansen and Amy Stephen getting 'Stewed at J and Beyond 2011

Today's JoomStew Radio - Live at J and Beyond 2011 features an excellent discussion between our Host Dianne Henning, Amy Stephen, Wilco Jansen, Joseph LeBlanc and Hagen Graf.

They dive into the topic of how the Joomla! Bug Squad was started during the development of Joomla 1.5, along with many of the ideas behind the formative years of Joomla development.

Take a few minutes out of your day to have a listen, and leave us a comment below with your thoughts!

JoomStew Radio at J and Beyond - Part 5

JoomStew Radio at J and Beyond - Part 5 MP3 Download

http://www.joomstew.com/podcast/2011/jabstew-bbq-pt5.mp3

JoomStew at Jab11 - Part 4 - Anything Digital and Microsoft

In Part 4 of JoomStew at J and Beyond 2011, Alice and Dianne have a new round of guests, including Fernanda and Jas from Microsoft, Hagen Graf from Cocoate and Toni Marie and Victor Drover from Anything Digital.

I know what you're thinking… Microsoft at JAB11? Really? Well, listen in on this podcast to find out some interesting developments that Vic and Microsoft plan to work on in the very near future regarding Joomla and IIS servers.

As always, we want to thank J and Beyond 2011 and the Knights of Open Source for allowing us to record these impromptu sessions at the Ebay sponsored Barbeque on Friday night, and to all of our guests for taking time to talk with us!

Let us know your thoughts in the comments here on the blog!

Hosts:

Dianne Henning - Hosting Paris

Alice Grevet - OPA Europe

Guests:

Maria Fernanda Badano - Microsoft

Jas Sandhu - Microsoft

Toni Marie - Mother Road Designs

Hagen Graf - Cocoate

Victor Drover - Anything Digital

JoomStew Radio at J and Beyond 2011 - Part 4

JoomStew Radio at J and Beyond 2011 - Part 4 MP3 Download

http://www.joomstew.com/podcast/2011/jabstew-bbq-pt4.mp3

JoomStew Radio at J and Beyond 2011 - Part 3

This is a continuation of the JoomStew Radio Show that occurred live at the J and Beyond 2011 Conference in Kerkrade, Netherlands. Alice and Dianne set up shop outside at the Ebay sponsored Barbeque held on the evening of Day 1 of the event. There was a steady stream of guests, and this part of the conversation was with a large group of the Molajo Team as well as a few members of the Board from Open Source Matters.

Thanks to Robert, Alex, Brian and everyone else who helped us at JAB11 and allowed us to record these shows there. Without the Joomla Community, we couldn't do this show! You guys are great!

Have a listen and let us know what you think in the comments! There's more of these on the way as well, just have to get them through production and published here on the blog!

Hosts:

Dianne Henning www.hostingparis.com

Alice Grevet www.opa-europe.org

Guests:

Cristina Solana - www.nightshiftcreative.com

Babs Gösgens - www.crossinghippos.com

Matt Thomas - www.joomlaengineering.com

Paul Orwig - www.opensourcematters.org

Amy Stephen - www.molajo.org

Jacques Rentzke - http://www.new-web-consulting.co.za/

Marco Barbosa - http://marcobarbosa.com

JoomStew Radio at J and Beyond 2011 - Part 3

JoomStew Radio at J and Beyond 2011 - Part 3 MP3 Download

http://www.joomstew.com/podcast/2011/jabstew-bbq-pt3.mp3

JoomStew Radio at the J and Beyond 2011 Ebay Barbecue

Alice and Dianne are back with more guests from the Ebay Barbeque held on the first night of the J and Beyond 2011 International Joomla Conference. Their guests include Nicholas Dionysopoulos from Akeeba Backup, Sigrid and Radek Suski from SobiPro and Parth Lawate from Tech Joomla.

The discussion centers around some of the differences between this year's conference and last year's inaugural event in 2010 and then touches on how Joomla Community Members can get involved in the Joomla Project even if you aren't a designer or developer.

Give it a listen and share your thoughts in the comments!

Hosts:

Dianne Henning www.hostingparis.com

Alice Grevet www.opa-europe.org

Guests:

Nicholas Dionysopoulos www.akeebabackup.com

Parth Lawate - www.techjoomla.com

Radek Suski www.sigsiu.net

Sigrid Suski www.sigsiu.net

JoomStew Radio at J and Beyond 2011 - Part 2

JoomStew Radio at J and Beyond 2011 mp3 Download

http://www.joomstew.com/podcast/2011/jabstew-bbq-pt2.mp3

Discussion:

Nicholas Dionysopoulos kicked off the discussion with a point about how it seemed the J and Beyond 2011 conference gained wider exposure this year and was held at an excellent venue from a social aspect. He then talked about how much innovation seems to be going on within the Joomla community, not just inside the project, but outside in the third party developer community.

Radek Suski of Sobi2 and SobiPro fame agreed with Nicholas about the location and mentioned how many more people attended JAB11 this year. He thanked Robert Deutz, Alex Kempkens and Brian Teemen for putting this event together again this year. The group also noted that the venue features a website built on the Joomla platform and that's how Brian Teeman found this location!

Parth Lawate from Techjoomla talked about how it was great meeting all the people he normally only speaks to online, and then discussed some of the extensions that he will show in his presentation that was scheduled for Sunday.

Dianne mentioned the Nooku SkiJam that occurred on Thursday night, and then asked How can International Joomla Community Members who are not coders get involved in the project?

Nicholas responded first with a few great suggestions including writing an article for the Joomla Community Magazine, even if English is not your native language. The JCM has an International category for non-English article submissions that are published every month. Also folks can offer to Translate Joomla into their native language as well.

Radek mentioned that he recently found a bug in Joomla 1.6 and reported it to the Joomla Bug Squad. He then went back and fixed the bug and submitted the patch to the project. It was included in the next release of Joomla 1.6.3 and he said it made him feel good that he was part of the solution. He feels this is very important that developers don't just complain about what's broken, but that they take the time to try to fix the problem as well.

Nicholas also added that every bug patch needs 2 testers, so if you are not a developer you can still report and bug and help test the patch once someone else submits a fix to the tracker.

Parth mentioned that International Joomla Community Members should try to promote Joomla on a local grassroots level so others can learn about Open Source code.

That's a wrap for Part 2, but stay tuned, we have more shows to post from J and Beyond 2011!

We love getting your comments and feedback here on the blog, are you liking the shows so far?

JoomStew Radio at J and Beyond 2011 Day 1 Round 1

Dianne and Alice are currently at J and Beyond 2011 in Kerkrade, Netherlands for the huge Joomla! developer conference. Ebay decided to throw a big Barbecue at the end of Day 1 and the girls decided to set up camp outside and had a steady flow of great guests who came by for a chat.

JoomStew Radio Hosts

Dianne Henning: www.hostingparis.com
Alice Grevet: http://www.opa-europe.org

J and Beyond Guests

Henrik Hussfelt - http://hussfelt.net
Sarah Watz - http://www.pixpro.net
Javier Gómez - http://opensourcematters.org
Jacque Rentzke - http://www.new-web-consulting.co.za
Jen Kramer - http://www.joomla4web.com
Ashwin Date - http://www.techjoomla

JoomStew Radio - J and Beyond Day 1 Round 1

JoomStew Radio - J and Beyond Day 1 Round 1 mp3 Download

http://www.joomstew.com/podcast/2011/jabstew-bbq-pt1.mp3

Highlights of the Discussion

This segment has a lot of great discussion that starts with Henrik and Sarah talking about how nice it is to network with people face to face that we normally only see online. It really makes for a great bonding experience with folks.

Javier Gomez shares about his experience with OSM and the Spanish speaking Joomla! Community and how those barriers continue to come down and the Spanish community is becoming more involved in the core Joomla community. He also mentions our friend Matias Aquirre who created the jUpgrade Component.

Jacque Rentzke from OSM shared how he really enjoyed meeting people that may disagree online, but when you get to meet them face to face, you realize we are all here to contribute our time for free to Joomla!

Jen Kramer talked about her Women in Joomla session and how women are actually well represented in Joomla, compared to other areas of computer science. The problem is, we don't have enough people contributing to the project as a whole. Jen then brought up a great suggestion about the need for more International communities in Joomla and how the Joomla installer could be a great gateway to get people connected with the various Resources from the different languages.

7 More Beers! Thanks Ebay!

Henrik discussed how Molajo is contributing back to the project and the discussion that broke out during the presentation.  He added a submission to http://ideas.joomla.org to contribute more of the Molajo project back into the core.

Ashwin Date discussed the idea that Joomla should create a similar project to the Google GHOP and GSOC contests. This might get more people involved.

Jacques discussed the session that Herman Peeran gave on the future of Joomla 2.0 and the passion he has for the project. Someone he called an undiscovered gem of the community and the need to get these type of people involved in the core.

Alice gave a shout out for the 6 minute lightning talks and how she though there were some fantastic ideas during those sessions.

Dianne closed this little interview with her take on the ad-hoc OSM session that occurred that morning. She really enjoyed the questions and answers that were given during that talk.

Stay tuned for more!