Community Magazine

As an administrator on the Joomla! Facebook group, a while ago I saw that a member posted that he had clicked to update his site and it was broken. What could he do to get his site back?

Are you, like many others online, having a hard time creating your online presence and building an audience? Are you searching for a new content management system? Are you a seasoned website developer looking to network? Luckily, there's a place that can help with all these situations and more. Free up some time in your schedule Saturday, July 18 and head to Minneapolis for JoomlaDay Minnesota.

Lynda.com features some great Joomla training videos and now lyndaLibrary makes free access to lynda.com available at many US libraries.

Remember Mambo? How about the “rhuk-milkyway” template? Take one fair-sized site which to the public eye looked manageable, but beyond held a behemoth of an intranet with hundreds of registered users and six versions of templates pointing to odd morphed versions, each spaghetti-ing between versions, transparent gifs, shaded borders of images, css files and hard-coded JavaScript routines of slideshows... you name it, it was there. It was no small job to make any change at all, let alone move this whole thing to Joomla 3.

The Joomla World Conference is back for its 4th consecutive year, and we are proud to be hosted in Bangalore, known as the Silicon Valley of India. This is a big change from past years, so I sat down with the man behind the curtain to find out why. Here’s the interview with Jon Neubauer, leader of the JWC team and event organizer extraordinaire.

Last week Joomla version 3.4 was released. It’s brought to you by the Production Leadership Team (PLT) and over 130 total contributors, and it fixes 700 bugs.

With so much information coming from the various Joomla teams, it can be hard to stay on top of all the latest awesomeness. To make your lives a little easier, the Joomla Magazine Team and the Joomla Extension Directory Team are working together to share more information via existing channels.

Most Joomla community members are familiar with major Joomla conferences like the Joomla World Conference and JandBeyond. Most of us know about the various JoomlaDays held throughout the world almost every single week of the year, and most of also know about our local JUG meetings and newer conferences like the Joomla Developer Conference. There is, however, a new official event type that most of us know nothing about: the JoomlaCamp.

With events scheduled on four different continents throughout April and May this year, there are abundant opportunities to connect with the Joomla community. Whether you call Asia, North America, Africa or Europe home, there’s probably something near you. May ends with J and Beyond, one of the largest events of the year, which will be held in the Czech Republic this year. Joomla! User Group (JUG) meetings and JoomlaDays are intended for everyone from casual users to core developers. Visit the Joomla! Events site to browse all events, submit an event or learn how to organize your own event.

The Joomla Community Magazine exists for the community, and by the community. It’s not called the “Joomla Magazine” for a reason. The JCM was created primarily as a platform for community members to share their stories, tips and knowledge about Joomla. As long as a steady flow of articles comes from the community, the magazine will continue to exist. This has been the case for nearly five years, but lately, submissions have been down. It’s time for the community to rally around the magazine!