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Wed 24 September 08 :: Minutes

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Minutes for MJUG meeting 24th September.

Agenda:
6:30-6:45 Networking and chat
6:45-7:00 Joomladay 2009 Melbourne
7:00-8:15 Joomla project showcases
8:15-8:30 Q&A
Attendees:
Total: 21
Raoul @ AMSI,
John Wood @ isitemedia, Developer and joomla hosting,
Pete Nurse @ Sunspot Computing,
Ali Robertson, Joomla dev,
Geoff, new to Joomla, dev for small manufacturing company,
Michael, working FT on joomla web based stock management (not up yet),
Max, I.T. Contractor for Department of Education, Victoria,
Steve, Business improvement specialist new to Joomla,
Gwyn + Martin, Web Design business based in woodend,
Malcolm, developing ecommerce project for selling Dr Wheatgrass with Joomla, also has a house off the grid ready for write-up using joomla,
Colin, setting up a site for community group in Port Philip area,
Nik Mason, photography, web/graphic design, building joomla community sites for a few suburbs around Melbourne. upgrading to 1.5 now,
Patrick Jackson, joomla developer and offering consultation to fix/resolve small issues etc,
Jarrod and Scott, web dev company @ Preflight,
Nicholas, crawl.net.au site for events and news for artists and galleries,
Mathew, Meehan Design, graphic and web design, using Joomla have 3 sites this year with another 3 on the books,
Dave Matthews, manage insideindonesia.org, a volunteer site, 20 editors focusing on Indonesian news socio/local/political. Site is in english language,
Nick, web developer and design initially, now hosting sites (Brisbane) eg: www.cyclingpromotion.com.au,
Matthias, Joomla addict, marketing strategy, chair.


6:40 discussion about organising JoomlaDay 2009
Look at Sunday being a workshop based program where fees are applicable to attend.
Saturday:
  • Andrew Eddie ? (suggested to have sessions on whilst presenting)

  • Sunday:
  • Seek ideas from User Group for Sunday
  • Security workshop (preferably more practical compared to 2008, ie. discuss cpanel literally)
  • Pre-requisite checklist of terms/links relating around Joomla, (Cpanel, hosting etc) for new/novice users to have looked at/visited prior to JoomlaDay2009
  • CD-ROM or Thumb Drives as a potential

  • Presenters:
  • Caroline Stafford was looked into.


  • 7:00 Consider essential Extensions for Joomla as a workshop/presentation
  • have a shortlist of "essentials" once Joomla is installed
  • Prominent sites!!! anyone? eg: like Jetstar abc etc.
  • How to structure the 2 days.


  • 7:15 Sponsorship
  • Need someone (with a phone voice) to manage/promote Nik!!

  • 7:30 Administration
  • Matthias, John, Patrick, Raoul

  • Program
  • Speaker relationship, Patrick, Matthias

  • Design/Print
  • Matthew Meehan (tentative)

  • Venue
  • Raoul, Matthias

  • Catering
  • Raoul

  • 8:05 Talked about dimdim
    Very handy for Joomla training/demo

    8:16 How do people choose templates?
    People tend to have a few favourite developers, such at RocketTheme, YooTheme, Joomlashack etc
    Suggest to subscribe to such sites. MM claims YooTheme's template structure can be "shocking"

    8:30 Conducted (official) round the room introductions, and continued with Q&A

    9:05 Close officially, people talking in small groups.

    10:30 Raoul kicked people out!

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