JoomStew Radio Community Extensions

Today JoomStew welcomes two very special guests, Joe Palmer of SoftForge and Parth Lawate of TechJoomla, to talk about Joomla! community extensions, namely Community Builder and JomSocial. Listen to their stories of what these extensions can do, and learn some clever new ways to use them. Plus don't miss the surprise appearance from a special globe-trotting guest at the end. Joomla! is all about community, and this show is all about community extensions!

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Joomla News:

OSM Nominations Part 1: Philip Locke, Paul Orwig, Altansukh Tumenjargal were added to the OSM Board on October 1st and there was said to be more nominations coming once new roles were outlined.

Joomla Community Magazine October Issue launch: The October issue launched on Friday under the leadership of Dianne Henning, standing in for Paul Orwig who was busy attending JDay West.

Sobi Pro reached Beta: Sigsiu.net released the first public beta of SobiPro. It’s a completely new component from the ground up! If you would like to take for a test drive, you can visit the Sigsiu.net developer portal and sign up to download.

Call to OSM: regarding Joomla Press: Official Joomla! Book. Amy Stephen posted a blog on the ATAAW site today citing the recently announced “official guide” to Joomla and her concerns about transparency, openness and inclusiveness. It has received a number of comments. We salute Amy for consistently working for important organizational and community values!

JoomlaDay West: It was a great event and video is available to the CLT open discussion:

More video available from joomlacommunity at livestream.com

JoomlaDay DC: will be held at Microsoft’s offices in Chevy Chase, Maryland just outside of Washington, DC on Saturday, October 16, 2010. Tickets are selling quickly, but you can still get yours today! Tell em JoomStew sent ya!

JoomlaDay Denmark: October 29 & 30, held for the first time in Kolding, Denmark at the International Business College (IBC). They have an English version on the website so check it out!

JoomlaDay UK: Joomla!Day UK 2010 will be held at Trinity Park Conference Centre in Ipswich, Suffolk from Saturday, 30th October to Sunday, 31st October 2010 inclusive. Sessions will be available for all levels, from beginner through to experienced developer.

Just in: Joomla Night Stockholm: Counting down the days: 3 weeks, 6 days and some hours - follow Twitter for more details.

Topic Discussion:

The 2 most popular social network extensions for Joomla are Community Builder and Jom Social. We've invited 2 specialists that use JomSocial and CB to build websites for clients on a regular basis, Parth Lawate from TechJoomla and Joe Palmer from SoftForge to discuss the ins and outs of each of these.

Our questions to our guests included the following:

• What types of communities have you built with Community Builder and JomSocial?
• What Extension-specific plugins or modules do you install with them? Do you have a ‘standard’ build you use?
• Talk about moderation and ACL a little bit, does Community Builder or Jom Social have it’s own ACL to add usergroups and assign responsibilities to them?
• Let’s talk about modifying the look and feel of the extension, does CB or Jom Social use its own template system or can you use html overrides within the Joomla template?
• Talk about some of the specific challenges you’ve faced with client builds and how has CB or JomSocial helped to address them?

Bad Boy of the Week:

Yepr for the great illustration of Paul Orwig wearing a pink tutu in this month's Joomla Community Magazine!

Contributor of the Week:

Dianne Henning - For getting the Joomla Community Magazine out the door each month! And as Editor in Chief this month! Great work Dianne! Love ya!

Working in the Community:

Join the BugSquad and help finish Joomla 1.6. They need your help! http://developer.joomla.org