Joomla 5th Birthday Bash Special Guests

Brian Teeman and Andrew Eddie

Brian Teeman

Andrew Eddie

What better way to celebrate Joomla's 5th birthday than with two original founding members of the Joomla! project: Andrew Eddie, know as ‘Mr Joomla’ around the forums and Brian Teeman, who is considered by many to be the ‘Voice of Joomla’. They join us to share memories of the history and their involvement in the project, as well as their vision for the future. The podcast is a fitting and enlightening tribute to Joomla! on its 5th anniversary. Happy Birthday Joomla!

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Joomla News

Our CMS Rocks - Guests Hils Cheyne Babs Gösgens
Hils, you and Babs have been working hard to get a special project launched in time for Joomla’s 5th Birthday, care to share a bit about that?

OSM Nominations - 7 positions are open, and 3 of them are specific: Treasurer, Capital Chair, and Developer Liaison - Nominations close September 10. Appointments announced October 1, 2010.

OSM Contractor Reports - Open discussion on Joomla Developer Contracts with bi-weekly reports now being published. Good transparency.

Joomla! Community Magazine - 3rd Issue Launches Today, September 1, 2010 with a new International Category that features articles in several languages.

Joomla 5th Birthday Movie has been released on the official Joomla Youtube Channel. Thanks to an awesome global team led by Hils Cheyne, with Producers/Directors Jeremy Wilken and Svein Wisnaes  that worked relentlessly to get this done on time.

Useful Links

How Joomla! got it's name: http://brian.teeman.net/joomla-gps/whats-in-a-name-why-is-it-called-joomla.html

Open source devs site to help Katrina victims:
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/general-news/116-open-source-developers-rally-to-help-katrina-evacuees.html

http://lynnepope.net/hurricane-katrina-my-year-part-1

http://lynnepope.net/new-pc

Contributor of the Week

The Entire Joomla Community

This week's JoomStew Radio, with your hosts Robert Vining and Alice Grevet, will air on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 with 2 very special guests; Brian Teeman and Andrew Eddie will be here to celebrate Joomla's 5th birthday, to discuss the Joomla project and how its evolved over the past 5 years.

We'll kick off the show with Hils Cheyne and Babs Gösgens as they help us with some big announcements during the News segment, and then get right into the discussion with Brian and Andrew.

We're really excited to have these 2 founding members of the Joomla! project as guests this week, and hope you'll find time to listen in as JoomStew Radio celebrates 5 years with Joomla!

Far and wide across this great nation, Joomla! users have been waiting. Waiting for their voice to be heard. Waiting for their vote to count. On October 16th at the footsteps of Washington DC, the wait will be over. We will finally be hearing from the President himself... Mr. Ryan Ozimek, President of Open Source Matters!

For many months now, NoVA Joomla has quietly lobbied from inside the Beltway to build a collation of representatives from across the nation. Delegates are traveling from the District of Columbia, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Virginia, Nebraska, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas; we're even expecting visitors from England and Greece! Will you be represented? Only if you attend! Come with us and wave the Red, Green, and Blue! (and orangey-yellow too!)

Our congress will be discussing and deliberating over many important Joomla! topics:

• Website Strategy
• Template Development
• CCK Components
• CRM Tools (to help you keep in touch with your constituents)
• Social Networking Tools (start a campaign!)
• Security (good enough for the military, and good enough for your site)
• Extension Development
• ...and many, many more!

Not everyone is the recipient of a pork-barrel project. In light of this, Joomla! Day DC is being offered at $49.95 for a limited time: a price that should keep everyone's budget balanced. This special offer is made  possible by a public-private partnership involving our generous sponsors.

This monumental event will reinforce your rights and responsibilities as a citizen of the Joomla! community. Do your civic duty by making plans to join us this fall. Declare your independence from proprietary software by registering today! Don't make a Federal case out of it: sign up for Joomla! Day DC 2010 before the early bird rate expires on August 31st.

This week JoomStew takes a break between series to tweak and fine-tune our next lineup of shows. What's cooking in September? Extensions and lots of 'em! We'll be covering CCK's (Content Construction Kits), community extensions, and much more, returning on Wednesday, September 1, so come and get it!

Please Mr. Postman

We invite you to use this interlude as an occasion to comment (below), sharing your ideas and reactions. How often does someone ask you what you really think? Please submit your topic ideas to help make JoomStew more interactive. You may also use the contact form. Who knows? Really interesting submissions just might make it into the stew…

Thanks so much for all the support you've shown us, and we look forward to seeing you all again next week!

Our Guests

Chris Rault of Joomla Junkie
Kyle Ledbetter of Admin Praise
The guys from Turtle Apps

Chris Rault

Kyle Ledbetter

Turtle Apps

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Joomla News

Turtle Apps, producers of the Joomlala video, have kindly and generously shared their music with JoomStew for the intro tune! Chris Irwin, Creative Director, and Luke Detering, Project Manager, join us to talk about what they do and how they made the video. Keep it coming guys!

Click on through to read the rest of the news!

J&Beyond 2011 dates and venue announced - Thanks to the phenomenal success of J&Beyond 2010, plans for the next event are now finalized: J and Beyond 2011 will take place May 6 - 8, 2011 at the Rolduc Conference and Hotel resort in Kerkrade, Netherlands. A call for papers is out, sign up for the newsletter, and book those dates!

Production Leadership Team Summit 2010 - The next PLT Summit will be held around the Joomla Day West in San Jose in October this year.
Primary focus:

1. Establishing the policy and process to create releases in a more timely and efficient manner.
2. Allow for innovation to be incorporated at a pace that keeps up with user needs.
3. Taking community suggestions now

Packt launches fifth annual Open Source Awards
The 2010 Award will feature a prize fund of $24,000 with several new categories introduced. Voting ends last week in September. While the Open Source CMS Award category will continue to recognize the best content management system, Packt is introducing categories for:

1. Most Promising Open Source Project,
2. Open Source E-Commerce Applications
3. Open Source JavaScript Libraries
4. Open Source Graphics Software

New JUG Site Directory Launched: http://community.joomla.org/user-groups.html
Features integrated Google Maps and upcoming Calendar for Events. JUGs are invited to update their listings!

Contributor of the Week:
Cristina Solana - Created a new Joomla User Group website this week that allows Registered User Groups to update their own listings, and potential new JUGs to register. Great work!

Useful Links:

What You Need to Know About Joomla 1.6. Part 5: Templates

Joomla! User Experience Development Group - http://jux17.org

Bad Boy of the Week:

Torkil Johnsen in his Taking Joomla Forward blogpost http://www.torkiljohnsen.com/2010/08/13/taking-joomla-forward/

Working in the Community:

Joomla Bugsquad - Wilco Jansen has stepped up to organize testing for the Joomla 1.6 ACL. This is an RC blocker that needs to be completed to get Joomla 1.6 out the door. They need help testing in the bugsquad. http://docs.joomla.org/Portal:Bug_Squad

Joomla! User Groups - Update your new listing on the new JUG site directory. You can login and add information about your meeting locations and when your group meets.

NEWSFLASH! - A very special guest will join us in the studio this week to announce the Official JoomStew Radio Theme Song! It's big, so don't miss it!

On August 18th JoomStew Radio winds up its four-week series on Joomla templates with a look at template features and updates in Joomla! 1.6.

What are the new features and functions?

How can they be used?

What does this mean for my 1.5 templates?

To shed light on these questions, Chris Rault of Joomla Junkie and Kyle Ledbetter of Admin Praise return to JoomStew to share their knowledge and give you the inside scoop on what you need to know.

Overriding question

Joomla 1.5 brought us the template override, preventing version upgrades from overwriting template customizations. What will 1.6 do to my websites and overrides? Inquiring minds want to know!

Honey, does this template make my backend look fat?

With Joomla! 1.6 the admin area finally gets the attention it deserves. Not only does the template manager offer more control over template styles and assignments, but 1.6 allows you to install and tweak admin templates for the backend as well.

Don't miss this podcast to find out about 1.6 features and functions, and what it means for you and your websites!

The first two shows of our 4 Week Template Series focused on User Experience Design and Design Trends with template developers, both commercial and freelance. Today, we discuss how Joomla! site builders use templates in the sites they build.

Our Guests

Joe Sonne of JoeJoomla.com
Dianne Henning of Hosting Paris
Sully Sullivan of Terrace Media Group

Joe "JoeJoomla" Sonne

Dianne Henning

Sully Sullivan

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Joomla News

Joomla!Day DC: Saturday, October 16, 2010. The $49.95 early bird ticket price is in effect until August 31. The venue is the Microsoft office building in DC. Seating is limited so sign up fast! The list of speakers is growing it promises to be a star studded event! Our guest Sully is an organizer for this event and he explains more in the podcast... Promote Joomla!Day DC with a banner!

On the Economics of Joomla - Action Required!  Aarti Mahajan is a graduate student in Innovation & Entrepreneurship Management at Ghent University in Belgium. Aarti’s doctoral research is aimed at revealing the entrepreneurship and revenue generation opportunities within the Joomla! ecosystem. Fill out a survey about your activity with Joomla! to help in this research endeavor.

What You Need to Know About Joomla 1.6. Part 4: Access Control Levels by Jen Kramer is now out on the Joomla! Community blog. This gets down to the nitty gritty, the part we’ve all been waiting for! Who gets to do what? Jen walks us through the new ACL with some spiffy graphics.

ATAAW Movie Team has started shooting video and they have something really special in the works for the upcoming Joomla 5th Birthday video. August 15th is the deadline. Questions or comments please post them on the blog.

Pub Night for JUG Toronto - Wednesday  - August 11th
JUG Toronto - Meeting  and Workshop - August 21st

Useful Links

Joomla! Template Tools Part One, by TeamEaSE published in the July issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine gives a good overview of templates, including some of the template options mentioned in the podcast.

Contributor of the Week

Jen Kramer for her tireless efforts on the ACL Tutorials. We all know it’s tough to do tutorials on software that’s still in development. Good job Jen!

Badboy of the Week

Robert Deutz for a late apology to Philip Locke, Robert was busy sleeping... @philiplocke: 7am Sunday morning & working #fail Phillip Locke promises to give you a wake up call next Sunday Robert so you can share in his misery!

Working in the Community

Joomla Article on Wikipedia - Sully has a blog post on ATAAW looking for help to update the Joomla article on Wikipedia. Go there, comment, and get in touch!

Joomla! is widely recognized as a CMS solution with templates in plentiful supply: template clubs, free templates, template frameworks, tools and generators*. The last two JoomStew shows have focused on what is under the hood of some commercial templates, and how to make templates usable. In our upcoming August 11 podcast, JoomStew Radio talks with freelancers Joe Sonne (JoeJoomla) , Dianne Henning, and Brian Sullivan, about how they approach adding a template to a new site. Do they custom build their own, or use a commercial template either out of the box or tweaked?

Homemade or instant?

If you have ever quick-loaded a new installation of Joomla! complete with commercial template and demo content, then you know that a beautiful designer website with all the bells and whistles can be yours within minutes. Or maybe you want more control, originality, and only the essentials, so you build from scratch. Whether you choose one of these methods, or something in-between, it all boils down to priorities, skill, and time.

Tweak preview

It is always inspiring and instructive to hear how fellow freelancers pull a website together. So whether you're a do-it-yourselfer, quick-fixer or tweaker, don't miss this podcast for some good JoomStew food for thought on custom and commercial templates!

* for a good overview of template options, see Joomla! Template Tools Part One, Joomla! Community Magazine, July 2010

This week's JoomStew Radio is the first broadcast that was pre-recorded due to the time differences of our guests. We thought it was the perfect opportunity to move the show away from Blog Talk Radio and keep the show hosted right here on the JoomStew Blog so you don't have to go anywhere else!

What sparked the idea for this week's topic on Design Trends was an article that Anthony Olsen published in the July issue of the Joomla Community Magazine entitled Joomla Template Design Trends in 2010.

Our Guests:

Anthony Olsen of Joomla Bamboo
Jon Lackey of Zuno Studios
Matt Lipscomb of USA Freelancers

Anthony Olsen

Jonathan Lackey

Matt Lipscomb

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Joomla News:

The Aug 1 issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine hit magazine.joomla.org on Monday. This is the second issue produced by the mag team under the leadership of Paul Orwig. Check out the new and beautiful Table of Contents with an improved view of article titles.

• We have original illustrations from Herman and Nelleke at http://www.yepr.eu. Their creations are fresh, insightful, with a little touch of whimsy!
• And we are announcing the initiative to build an International Stories section. Our goal is to bring you articles in numerous language categories from all around the world by September 1.
• If you have an article idea to contribute, please sign up and become a JCM Author.

JoomlaDays coming up!

• JoomlaDay West is a 3 day event, including JoomlaNight, Unconference and Hackable Conference, from October 1-3, 2010. The early bird rate is available through August 31 at $150, after which date the fee will be $250 per attendee. Venue: Ebay North Campus Town Hall in San Jose, California.
• JoomlaDay Italy will be held on  Saturday, October 9th, 2010. I is free for the first 700 registrations! Venue: Congress Centre VeronaFiere, Italy.

J!UX - The Joomla User Experience  group on the People site is establishing goals and taking a roll call of folks ready to help. As Kyle Ledbetter puts it: "We need people with ALL SKILLS to make this a successful project!" There is already a very exciting list of Joomla talent ready to devote their time to making the Joomla user experience even better. JUX do it!

Interview: Meet Joomla! User Marco Barbosa on joomlablogger.net. Thank you Kristoffer Sandven for another great profile interview!

Useful Links:

Google Website Optimizer

Contributor of the Week:

KyleLedbetter - for taking the lead on the J!UX Group and organizing it even further.

Badboy of the Week:

Joomors For starting a Joomla Rumors Twitter account... we know who you are! Idle rumors will get you many followers but come to no good!

Working in the Community:

ATAAWmovies Needs volunteers to start getting their videos together... the 15th of August is the submission date for video!

JUX Design Team is looking for volunteers!!!

Look for the new JoomStew Podcast section right here on the site! We will be uploading all of our podcast episodes before Wednesday so you can subscrbe with iTunes, listen here on the site, or download an MP3 to go!

After our inspiring lineup of JoomStew radio guests last week discussing J!UX 1.7 and admin templates, we continue our four part series on templates with this week's topic, Design Trends. Join us with guests Anthony Olsen of JoomlaBamboo, Jonathan Lackey of Zuno Studios, and USAFreelancer's own Matt Lipscomb. Freelancers and developers alike are sure to find it informative and visionary!

JoomStew goes takeout

This week for the first time JoomStew Radio will be pre-recorded, and made available for download at our normal show time, Wednesday August 4. The program format will include the same ingredients as usual: news, our panel of guests, contributor of the week, bad boy of the week, and how to get involved. The same JoomStew you know and love, served up in a sesame seed podcast!

We want to hear your thoughts!

If you have ideas to submit, questions you'd like to ask, thoughts or comments, let us know by dropping us a note. Compelling remarks just might make it into the stew…

As always, thanks for listening!