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Joomla! Day Sydney 2008
Joomla! Day Sydney 2008 (http://sydney.joomladay.org.au) is scheduled for Monday, May 19, 2008, in conjunction with CeBIT Australia (http://www.cebit.com.au/). Community members from Sydney, Australia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney) are finalizing plans for a great event to be held at the beautiful and world famous Sydney Conference and Exhibition Centre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Convention_and_Exhibition_Centre) located in Darling Harbour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darling_Harbour). The event agenda (http://sydney.joomladay.org.au/) is designed to share a broad range of technologies and ideas with a diverse audience of designers, students, charities, businesses, technical experts, and end users.
Topics include:
A technical discussion entitled Joomla! 1.5: Under the Hood delivered by Andrew Eddie (http://www.newlifeinit.com/), Joomla! Core Team member and Development Working Group coordinator.
Andrew will also present a session on Joomla! 1.5 Template Overrides, an empowering toolset for Web site designers and developers.
Brad Baker (http://www.xyzulu.com/), Joomla! Core Team member and Joomla.org forum administrator will share helpful information for Web site Performance and Security.
Dinah Randall (http://spikesystems.com.au/), founder and president of the Sydney Joomla! User Group (http://www.joomladay.org.au/index.php?option=com_content view=category layout=blog id=33 Itemid=80) and Joomla! Day conference organiser will speak on Joomla! Creative - Templates and Design.
Norm Douglas (http://nerdsonsite.com.au/intro/AU/default.asp) will present an overview entitled Getting Started with Joomla!.
Patrick Jackson (http://www.kpsystems.com.au/) will share Joomla! Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategies and techniques needed to improve visibility of Joomla! Web sites.
Damian Hickey (http://www.openfreeway.org/home/blogs/damian-hickey/browse/1.html) will share how Freeway (http://www.openfreeway.org/) easily integrates with Joomla!, resulting in powerful eCommerce solutions.
Ashton Murphy (http://ashtonmurphy.com/) will share his experiences on the Google Highly Open Participation Contest (http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8/) and a cool surprise.
At the end of the day, attendees can ask questions of a panel of Joomla! experts.
Following the event, all are invited for drinks and conversation Monday evening and to visit the Joomla! stand at CeBIT from May 20th to 22nd. Throughout the Open CeBIT conference, several Joomla! open source presentations will be held at CeBIT's Open Source Theatre.
Register now (https://www.mycebit.com.au/rego08/index.php) for Sydney Joomla! Day. Those who register by May 14th will receive early bird discounts and a better chance at getting one of the T-shirts only available for the first 100 registrants. Registration ends on Saturday, May 17th. We hope that the Sydney Joomla! Day 2008 is a great success and an enjoyable and informative way to have fun with Joomla!.
For more information, see:
Sydney Joomla! Day 2008 (http://sydney.joomladay.org.au/)
Register now (https://www.mycebit.com.au/rego08/index.php)
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Joomla! Google Summer of Code 2008 Projects
The Joomla! community is pleased to announce that Google is sponsoring 15 amazing projects (http://code.google.com/soc/2008/joomla/about.html) in our fourth Google Summer of Code (http://code.google.com/soc/). Students and mentors from all over the world will work together this summer to bring great things to Joomla!. This year, Joomla! is honored that CiviCRM (http://civicrm.org/node/328) is also part of the team. Sincere thanks to Google for their continued support of Joomla! and the 175 other free and open source organizations participating.
Congratulations to the Joomla! Google Summer of Code 2008 Students
Your proposals were selected from a very competitive pool of nearly 100 applications. Thank you to the mentors willing to share time for this important effort. Projects that held the most promise were selected and we look forward to seeing this work shared with the community this fall.
This summer, each GSoC project team (http://developer.joomla.org/gsoc2008.html) will share their progress on the developer.joomla.org (http://developer.joomla.org) site. Community members are invited to use the links below to join these conversations as the blogging begins over the next few weeks. End user feedback is an integral part of building useful solutions. If you have questions, please contact (http://developer.joomla.org/gsoc2008/16-overall-project/19-gsoc-project-managers.html) Wilco Jansen or Ian MacLennan, Joomla!'s GSoC project managers.
Joomla! Google Summer of Code 2008 Projects and Students
Advanced Media Manager (http://developer.joomla.org/gsoc2008/advanced-media-manager.html), Nakul Ganesh S, Mysore, India (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysore)
CiviCRM: Aesthetics and Usability (http://developer.joomla.org/gsoc2008/civicrm-aesthetics-and-usability.html), Jon Volkman, Seattle, Washington (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle%2C_Washington)
CiviCRM: Multi-language Support (http://developer.joomla.org/gsoc2008/civicrm-multi-language-support.html), Piotr Szotkowski, Warsaw, Poland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw%2C_Poland)
Contact Directory (http://developer.joomla.org/gsoc2008/contact-directory.html), Chantal Bisson, Quebec City, Canada (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City%2C_Canada)
Content Type Management (http://developer.joomla.org/gsoc2008/content-type-management.html), Ercan Özkaya, Konya, Turkey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konya%2C_Turkey)
Custom Content Layouts (http://developer.joomla.org/gsoc2008/custom-content-layouts.html), Jaap Woltjes, the Netherlands (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Netherlands)
Forms (http://developer.joomla.org/gsoc2008/forms.html), Mostafa Muhammad, Cairo, Egypt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo)
Multi-DB Support (http://developer.joomla.org/gsoc2008/multi-db-support.html), Alex de Azevedo, Brazil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil)
Multimedia Portal (http://developer.joomla.org/gsoc2008/multimedia-portal.html), Marcelo Eden, Recife (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recife), Brazil
OpenSocial (http://developer.joomla.org/gsoc2008/opensocial.html), Shannon Quinn, Atlanta, Georgia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta%2C_Georgia)
Research Management (http://developer.joomla.org/gsoc2008/research-management.html), Luis Galárraga, Guayaquil, Guayas Ecuador (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guayaquil)
Semantic Web (http://developer.joomla.org/gsoc2008/semantic-web.html), Danh Le Phuoc, Vietnam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam), studying in Ireland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland)
Tags (http://developer.joomla.org/gsoc2008/tags.html), Jacek Zielinski, Poznan, Poland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poznan%2C_Poland)
Unit Testing (http://developer.joomla.org/gsoc2008/unit-testing.html), Scot Inscore, Whitewater, Wisconsin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater%2C_Wisconsin)
Version Control (http://developer.joomla.org/gsoc2008/version-control.html), Flavio Kubota, Campinas, Brazil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campinas%2C_Brazil).
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