The Registered Joomla User Group team are pleased to announce that we are making some changes to enhance the relationship between the team and JUG coordinators.
 
* We have made a gallery page for the people in the team know who we are and what their special skills are.

* We are tweaking the JUG directory to ensure it stays up to date and is easier to handle that includes removing the deadwood and locating JUGs who have lost their way a bit.

* The rules are being translated to native languages similar to the German and Spanish ones already made. If you can assist in any way, please let us know.

* We will organise a regular JUG news spots and ask groups to have a general round up in the Registered JUG Google group. We suggest all sign up with the group,

Other behind the scenes improvements are :

* Have an ideal  7 day response limit from application to approval. (But this is not possible in all cases).

* Update and rebuild the JUG welcome pack
 
Thanks for reading and commenting in the people.joomla.org group .

Liam
 

 
 

MTV is one of the few TV channels that is truly famous around the world. Broadcasting in over 60 countries, MTV has has had a profound impact on the music industry and popular culture.

MTV recently re-launched their website in Greece using the power of Joomla: http://www.mtvgreece.gr.

Greetings, Community

Welcome to another Google Summer of Code (TM) (GSoC) update from the team! Back in March we were honored to be told by Google that we had made the list and that the Joomla project was accepted into the Google Summer of Code program this year.

Yesterday Google announced the eight students accepted to Google Summer of CodeTM for Joomla.  We’re excited about the projects these students have proposed and most of all about having these developers participate in the Joomla development community.

• Javier Gómez: Language Installation for the CMS
• Lucas Tiago De Castro Jesus: Language Translation Extension
• Aaron Schmitz: Google API
• Diana Prajescu: Facebook API
• Florian Voutzinos: Workflow API
• Kavith Thiranga Lokuhewage: JS / CSS Compression API -
• Prasath Nadarajah: MediaWiki API
• Stefan Neculai: Web Services API

The next few weeks are going to be key for the student’s success in the program. Mentors and students will be working together closely to formulate plans that will guide them through the rest of the summer. Students will be learning how to work with the development infrastructure and studying the Joomla APIs and design patterns.

The students have already been participating in fixing bugs and on the development mailing lists.

The community can get involved in helping and assisting the students by joining our mailing list, giving them feedback on development mailing lists, and following the work in their github repositories. Although the students are going to be taking their direction from mentors, input and advice from the development community at large will be very helpful and is an essential part of the open source development process.

These students were chosen from among more than 50 applicants, and choosing the final projects was very challenging. Thank you to all of the students who applied and community members who submitted project ideas and provided feedback to students.

Joomla! is one of 180 open source projects participating in Google Summer of Code 2012.  We appreciate Google’s support of student work in open source projects.

Last week we gave you a glimpse of a possible new design for Joomla 3.0.

To recap some of the key points:

• Kyle Ledbetter and his Joomla Usability team ( http://ux.joomla.org ) are redesigning Joomla using Twitter Bootstrap ( http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap ).
• Making Joomla 3.0 mobile-ready is a very high priority.
• The release of Joomla 3.0 is still over five months away and much work is still to be done. What you see here are ideas, but only ideas so far. Look for more information as work progresses.
• Head over to http://ux.joomla.org if you want to get involved.

Joomla 3.0 is due in September and the team have been hard at work bringing the next era of Joomla to life.

One of the most important changes will be an overhaul of Joomla's design. Both the visitor and administrator areas are being redesigned from top-to-bottom.

The next web revolution will be the mobile revolution. As hundreds of millions more people come online, many of them will only be using mobile devices. Our aim is make Joomla 3.0 completely mobile-friendly, while still remaining recognizably Joomla.

Kyle Ledbetter and his Joomla Usability team ( http://ux.joomla.org ) are redesigning Joomla using Twitter Bootstrap. Twitter describes Bootstrap as being: "an extensive front-end toolkit for developing web sites and applications." Using Boostrap allows Joomla to create a mobile-ready experience based on a hugely popular framework that many other developers and designers already know and love. You can find the offical Bootstrap project homepage at http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap.

The release of Joomla 3.0 is still over five months away and much work is still to be done, but here are some teaser shots of where things are today. Look for more information as work progresses and head over to http://ux.joomla.org if you want to get involved.

De acuerdo a la Wikipedia, FLISoL, Acrónimo para Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre, es el evento simultáneo de Software Libre más grande de Latinoamérica. Se presenta en todos los países latinoamericanos y en él se habla acerca de Software Libre desde 2005. En 2008, más de 200 ciudades de 18 países participaron en la FLISoL.

According to Wikipedia, FLISoL, an acronym for Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre (Latin American free software install fest), is the biggest event for spreading Software Libre since 2005, performed simultaneously in different countries of Latin America. In 2008, more than 200 cities from 18 countries of Latin America participated on a FLISoL.

We introduced the one-click update in Joomla! 1.7. When it worked, it was marvelous. Unfortunately, it wasn’t as robust when it came up against all the various hosting situations and differently configured systems. Many people turned to Nicholas Dionysopoulos’ AdminTools to do their updates.

We are happy to announce that with Joomla 2.5.4, we have added a new core component, Joomla! Update, that Nicholas wrote based on his experience dealing with updating across a wide variety of hosts with his Akeeba Backup, Kickstart and AdminTools. Once you have the component installed, you will be able to use it for the next release. So all of you who update to 2.5.4 will be able to use it to update to 2.5.5.

This component will also let you decide whether you want to continue getting updates for the 2.5.x long term support release or jump up to the newest 3.0.0 short term release when it comes out in September. See the section on Options for details.

Joomla! 2.5 was released in January of this year and the stable version is now available to download at joomla.org. New features including automatic notifications of core Joomla! and extension updates and a powerful internal indexer and search function have brought a new realm of usability and functionality for both site administrators and users.

What you may not know is that there is a free training webinar outlining the 24 new features, and, more specifically, the core Joomla! multilingual functions available in Joomla! 2.5. One of the things that Joomla! focused on with this release is the internationalization of websites and encouraging users and website owners to create sites that can be accessed from anywhere in the world. One of the biggest barriers to that is language accessibility. The Joomla! Community has tackled that head on with the new and refined Language Manager and other multilingual capabilities now available in Joomla! 2.5.

What We’ve Done

It is an incredible honor to be a part of the team that helped bring Google Summer of Code (GSoC) back into the Joomla community for 2012. This year, the Joomla community is certainly shaping up to be an exciting one. We’ve had Joomla 2.5, undoubtedly the most advanced and functional version of the CMS released early this year. On top of that, the community has been able to get their hands on yet-another top-notch OSM president who will continue to bring new energy, ideas, and direction to Joomla’s legal entity.

On Friday, March 16th, around 2:00pm EST I got the email. Google had approved Joomla’s application. We were in. We waited about an hour to make sure it wasn’t a dream and to fill out our Google-Melange profile. Then, the social-media-sphere took over. Tweets, Skype messages, and Facebook comments all started to pile in congratulating us. The team, had they been able to, would’ve clinked glasses of champagne at the news. It was a big, exciting moment, and I’m honored, and proud to have been a part of it.

The Road Ahead

Now that we’re in, the real work is about to begin. Running the program is going to take a lot more effort, and that’s the road we face now. The work that students will be doing for the Joomla program won’t stop here. The mentoring they receive will travel with the student wherever they go. Future education, and future jobs - the student will get a lot from the program.

Get Involved

The next Joomla Roadmap Meeting is being held as part of the J and Beyond conference that is taking place May 18-20 in Bad Nauheim, Germany. Ideally, we'd like to come out of the meeting with some tangible accomplishments, but we recognise that may not be possible given the time constraints. More important is to bring people together to bounce ideas around and to form groups that will work to bring particular features into Joomla.

To encourage features to be brought forward in a timely and organised process we would like to see those people with an interest in promoting a major feature or change get together in a team under the Production Working Groups banner.

If you are interested in helping with a feature for Joomla 3.x, whether or not you can come to the Joomla Roadmap Meeting at J and Beyond, please fill out the Joomla Roadmap Meeting: Production Working Group form and let us know.

Thanks to everyone who helped with squishing bugs and writing documentation this weekend at the Joomla Pizza, Bugs, and Fun global party. Volunteers from around the world helped to commit, or make ready to commit, over 30 bug fixes. Work was done on another 70 trackers. We'll post graphs shortly showing the work that was done.

A number of people tackled the documentation, fixing, updating and adding to the information available at docs.joomla.org. You can see a list of the recent changes at http://docs.joomla.org/Special:RecentChanges

Thanks for all the time and effort you put into making Joomla a better product and in giving back to the project.

To comment or discuss this post, go to http://people.joomla.org/groups/viewdiscussion/1456-discussion-on-thanks-to-all-who-gave-back-at-the-joomla-pizza-bugs-and-fun.html?groupid=713

We are announcing a Joomla! Pizza Bugs and Fun event scheduled for Saturday, March 3, 2012. The event is global for virtual participants with local venues where ever they are organized. We squashed a lot of bugs last month, but as more people use a new release, we always find more. We'll also have documentation ready to be worked on.

Con el lanzamiento de Joomla! 2.5, la comunidad de usuarios ha puesto un gran énfasis en que la instalación del CMS y el proceso de gestión de cambios sean tan simples y directos como sea posible.

Esto permitirá a los usuarios migrar más fácilmente y con frecuencia a la última versión de Joomla!, y aprovechar todas las ventajas de seguridad asociadas con el funcionamiento del nuevo código. Creemos que los usuarios Joomla! de todo el mundo agradecerán realmente este nuevo proceso.

Comience ahora mismo:

• Descargar Joomla! 2.5
• Joomla! 2.5 - Anuncio de lanzamiento
• Nuevas características en Joomla! 2.5
• Joomla! 2.5 - Historial de cambios y detalles
• Nuevas caracteŕisitcas en comparación con Joomla! 1.5

The Joomla Project’s latest CMS release includes a release of the project’s PHP Framework: Joomla Platform. In 2010 the project made plans to officially decouple the core of Joomla (now the Platform) from the CMS. This allows site implementers to utilize both the full featured CMS, and as well as allow developers to use the light but powerful Joomla Platform core to power web applications.
The Joomla 2.5 CMS release includes notable features that until now have been available only to those developers who have been using the Joomla Platform as a stand alone application. Among others, some of my favorites are:

• JWeb
• JImage
• JWebClient
• JGrid

Joomla 2.5 is right around the corner. For those of you who want to blog about the launch, talk with your customers or update your extension / template information, here are some resources you can use:

The artcile New Features in 2.5 showcases several new features in Joomla 2.5. In addition to supporting MS SQL Databases covering SQLServer 2008 and SQLAZure, Joomla 2.5 supports Azure Storage CDN and Azure deployment. Windows Azure is the Cloud platform from Microsoft. To learn more, please visit Windows Azure. Sign up here for a Windows Azure Free Trial account. This article covers a use case to deploy new Joomla site on Windows Azure. I will follow up with another use case where we will cover migration of Joomla 2.5 site (Windows Server and SQLServer Database) to Windows Azure. Migration will require customizations to Joomla Scaffolder framework.

Joomla 2.5, due out in January 2012, will have a host of new features including new search functionality, multi-database support, and update notification. The following article describes these features. Many people in the community have contributed to making these features possible, some of whom are listed here. Moving from 1.7 to 2.5 can be done with the one-click upgrade within Joomla and most extensions that run on 1.7 should also run on 2.5.

El Villarreal CF, equipo de fútbol de la Primera División de la Liga española que ha disputado la UEFA Champions League este año, acaba de inaugurar su nuevo portal oficial, completamente realizado con Joomla!.

El portal http://www.villarrealcf.es ha sido desarrollado usando Joomla! 1.5 junto con extensiones como K2 y Joom!Fish. Aún le queda algo de desarrollo por delante, pero según parece el club quería tenerla antes de Navidad.

El fútbol está considerado como el deporte más popular del mundo. Nacido en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, actualmente es jugado por más de 250 millones de personas en más de 200 países, siendo el deporte con mayor audiencia televisiva a nivel mundial.

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Villareal CF, a First Division spanish football (soccer) team which has played the UEFA Champions LEague this season, has just launched its new official website, completely done using Joomla!.

The website http://www.villarrealcf.es has been built using Joomla! 1.5 along side with extensions like K2 and Joom!Fish. There's some development pending yet (like the english translation), but probably the club wanted to have it live before Christmas.

Football is considered as the most popular sport in the world. Born during the second half of the 19th century, it's currently played regularly by over 250 million people from over 200 countries, having the highest global television audience in sport.

Ahora que Joomla.org también habla español y está más cerca de todos los hispanoparlantes, debemos comenzar a colaborar de manera real y efectiva.

La comunidad Joomla! quiere integrar a todas las personas de habla hispana, que de alguna forma estén involucrados con el software Joomla!, para que podamos compartir el conocimiento y crecer como familia. Notarás que de esta forma, Joomla! está con nosotros y cada día más cercana, cumpliendo todas nuestras necesidades y de la forma más eficiente posible, porque la unión hace la fuera y compartir el conocimiento es crecer personal y profesionalmente.

Thanks to everyone who participanted in the Joomla! Pizza, Bugs and Fun this past weekend. Over 60 people worldwide tested, coded/fixed and documented new features and issues in Joomla! 2.5, helping to get it ready for release. Some of the countries represented were the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Denmark, The Netherlands, Israel, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Chile, Argentina,  Australia, Malaysia, South Africa, Algeria and India. Over half of the people participating were not in the Joomla Bug Squad so we had a lot of new volunteers. It was great to see so many people come out to help.

Statistics over the Weekend

These are the statistics from the Joomla CMS Issue Tracker and Joomla CMS Feature Tracker for the period. Thanks must also go out to the people not on these charts including those who did documentation, those who tested but didn't have a login to the trackers and those giving support.

The charts are in two groups. The Issue tracker is for fixing or improving existing features while the Feature tracker is for creating new features for 2.5.