Learn Joomla! with JoeJoomla on July 20, 2010 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Ascend, 25 Watline Avenue, Suite 201, Mississauga, ON L4Z 2Z1. You can register online, simply click here or the banner above and it will take you to the Joomlatraining page. Look on the menu bar for Joomla and go to the submenu "live joomla training". JoeJoomla's class is the Toronto class but there are also classes in several cities for beginner, intermediate, and template classes.
Joomla! has been involved in Google's Summer of Code event for the last several years. This year Joomla! didn't make the list of approved projects. A lot of disappointment was expressed by many when the list of open source projects to be involved was published and Joomla! was not on it. There was some angry finger pointing, and from others philosophical explanations, to explain why this might have happened.
I was excited about GSoC for the first time since I agreed to be a mentor this year for a student. I haven't been involved with GSoC in the past in any capacity and finally when I decided get involved, there is no GSoC. I felt the let down personally. It's easy to be disappointed but maybe the rejection of Joomla! for inclusion in the 2010 GSoC is a blessing in disguise.
Recently I had a meeting with a product manager at a company who told me that their IT department had just been given approval to revamp their website. They are going to use an obsolete website development tool to create essentially a collection of static web pages. It's hard to believe that people are still putting resources into static HTML websites these days. It's obvious they have no idea what a true content management system like Joomla! is. Website systems like Joomla! are cost effective as well as easy to use and maintain. They are not going to be positioning themselves for the future with the decision that they made.
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Joomla! has been involved in Google's Summer of Code event for the last several years. This year Joomla! didn't make the list of approved projects. A lot of disappointment was expressed by many when the list of open source projects to be involved was published and Joomla! was not on it. There was some angry finger pointing, and from others philosophical explanations, to explain why this might have happened.
So you have that great new blog going and you're really excited about it. You wrote what you think should be a popular entry and you have your commenting system enabled to capture all the great compliments that everyone is going to give you.
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