ELCA Web and Multimedia Development Blog

Components greatly enhance the Joomla platform. Community Builder (CB) gives a social networking ability to Joomla.

Jommunity and Joomsocial are other examples of social components.

But CB has been around since 2004. There is stability. Makes it a good choice.

Many core functions that you would find in social apps.

Registration workflow, email verification.

CB is such an established component, that you can find modules and plugins created for CB!

With CB subs, a part of CB, you can restrict access to portions of Joomla or even outside of Joomla by using URLs.

CB has created a template called MyCommunity that has CB mods in the template.

JoomlaPraise has CB templates.

There is a Privacy Plugin that let’s users control what is seen in their profile.

Wip activities plugin let’s people see others’ activities on the site, like Facebook.

CB Paid Subscription System. Nice!

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Wilco is from the Netherlands. He is currently a boardmember of Joomla and in the development workgroup.

Joomla is Swahili for “All Together.”

Joomla user groups are popping up around the world.
140,000 english downloads of Joomla a month.

4,688 registered extensions for Joomla.

GPL is the key to growth.

If the community is not actively engaged in your project you will not survive. Look at Mambo, the CMS that Joomla forked from.

Plugged Open Source Matters.

Joomla! is a business, not a science project.

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Matt Asay, from the Alfresco CMS, says that the downturn in the economy makes open source the right answer for right now.

Smaller initiatives fare better than larger projects do.

Open source is on a massive growth curve and is not a fad. Open source has gone mainstream.

85% of enterprises use some sort of Open Source.

So what does this mean to our proprietary vendors?
They are consolidating. Buying each other up. This means less choice.

Plus, watch who owns your content with proprietary vendors.

CMIS will open the content world as SQL opened the database world.

Follow Matt at twitter.com/mjasay

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Host of the conference, John Coonen

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Yesterday was more of an introduction, and gearing up for what today has to offer. This is really Day One. My schedule today is as follows:

Breakfast – Now
Keynote Address
Community Builder, a Social Area for Joomla
Joomla Developer I
Joomla Template Design I
Joomla Administration

Complete schedule can be found here. http://www.cmsexpo.net/schedule.html

Tell your friends to tune in!

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Joomla! Kickstart Session

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Ultimate CMS Showdown – wordpress, drupal, And joomla!

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Today through Friday I will be attending the CMS Expo 2009 to gain more knowledge on the Joomla! Content Management System. We in Communication Services hope to build an ELCA branded template for synod and congregational use. Many of you have been asking for something like this, and I am happy to say that the project is under way!

I will be blogging from the expo as I am able. This gives me a chance to try out my new Google phone!

Also, please follow me on Twitter for even more up-to-date info. www.twitter.com/lenmason

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