JoomStew Radio – August 18, 2010 – Template Series 1.6 Updates and Features

Our Guests

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