Joomla User Group Brisbane

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Past events

• Our Next Meetup!

  Wed, 19 Jun 2013, 08:00 - 09:45 in Spring Hill, Australia

  PLEASE NOTICE:More details will be posted when confirmed.CheersJeff

• Outsourcing and Design

  Wed, 15 May 2013, 08:00 - 09:45 in Spring Hill, Australia

  OutsourcingJacqueline and Nicola from Webhost will be giving a talk on using a local designer and the benefits of local support. They will be using one of their projects to highlight this by showing a website from the beginning with a chosen template, then adding the required artwork to customise the site for the client and then the programming of Nicola to bring all of this together.

• Our Next Meetup!

  Wed, 17 Apr 2013, 08:00 - 09:45 in Spring Hill, Australia

  The NightThe subject for the night is outsourcing artwork. See meetup with same date.The VenueThe venue is confirmed as "The Edge" for the next six months. If you need a Google Map you can just click on this link to see where "The Edge" is.The Edge has an in-house cafe that serves strong coffee and other beverages, however, meals and stronger drinks will have to wait until after the meeting.

• Our Next Meetup!

  Wed, 20 Feb 2013, 08:00 - 09:45 in Spring Hill, Australia

  The NightThe subject for the night is...The VenueThe venue is confirmed as "The Edge" for the next six months. If you need a Google Map you can just click on this link to see where "The Edge" is.The Edge has an in-house cafe that serves strong coffee and other beverages, however, meals and stronger drinks will have to wait until after the meeting.

• Our Next Meetup!

  Wed, 21 Nov 2012, 08:00 - 09:45 in Spring Hill, Australia

  The NightThe subject for the night is...The VenueThe venue is confirmed as "The Edge" for the next six months. If you need a Google Map you can just click on this link to see where "The Edge" is.The Edge has an in-house cafe that serves strong coffee and other beverages, however, meals and stronger drinks will have to wait until after the meeting.

• Our Next Meetup!

  Wed, 17 Oct 2012, 08:00 - 09:45 in Spring Hill, Australia

  The NightThe subject for the night is...The VenueThe venue is confirmed as "The Edge" for the next six months. If you need a Google Map you can just click on this link to see where "The Edge" is.The Edge has an in-house cafe that serves strong coffee and other beverages, however, meals and stronger drinks will have to wait until after the meeting.

• Our Next Meetup!

  Wed, 22 Aug 2012, 08:00 - 10:00 in Spring Hill, Australia

  Subject is yet to be decided and everything is tentative at this point including the venue.N.B. This meetup is being held a week later due to the Ekka Public Holiday.

• Our Next Meetup!

  Wed, 18 Jul 2012, 08:00 - 10:00 in Spring Hill, Australia

  Subject is yet to be decided and everything is tentative at this point including the venue.I'll update the meetup details over the week.

• To familiarise with menu's and templates, design headers

  Wed, 7 Sep 2011, 09:30 - 11:30 in Brisbane, Australia

  Understand Menu creation, how to change web headers, how to look for templates and test upload and if happy upload to live website

• Joomla Hack-a-thon

  Fri, 10 Jun 2011, 09:00 - 11:00 in Spring Hill, Australia

  We all know and love Joomla, and we all benefit from the plugins/bugfixes/etc that the joomla community creates.Lets take a meetup night to hack at Joomla (whether that be the core, modules, plugins etc) and see what we come up with.

• Idiot's Guide to using Firebug

  Thu, 12 May 2011, 09:00 - 11:00 in Spring Hill, Australia

  I'm sure many members would be interested in learning the basics on how to use Firebug to interpret and debug their Joomla sites, especially those who are relatively new to Joomla and code generation.

• Joomla and Server setting optimization

  Thu, 10 Mar 2011, 09:00 - 11:00 in Spring Hill, Australia

  Some detailed information on what to look for in a joomla host would be great. Ie what are the optimum PHP memory limits, should safe mode really be on or off and what security measures to install if it is off.Reasoning: we are having intermittant 500 internal server errors, and have spent 2 weeks trying to find out the reasons behind this. Are some templates too feature rich and demand too much processor power? Are there any other factors which generate 500 internal server errors?

• Brisbane Joomla Day - "Joomla Futures"

  18-19 Jun 2010 in South Brisbane, Australia

  Joomla 1.6 is on the way! Come and learn about how this major release will make it even easier to build compelling web presences.Presenters and trainers at the Brisbane Joomla Day are professionals sharing years of experience and a wealth of knowledge. From core and component developers to savvy designers and administrators, learn the tricks of the trade first hand.The conference includes workshops, lectures and networking opportunities.

• Introducing Developers to Joomla

  Fri, 18 Jun 2010, 03:30 - 05:30 in South Brisbane, Australia

  Training from Andrew EddieIntroducing Developers to Joomla is a short, half-day course (approximately 3.5 hours) that introduces developers to the Joomla framework and extensions.Course ContentThis course is aimed at people who are already familiar with how to set up a Joomla web site. This course introduces the programmatic concepts behind the Joomla framework and extension development. The following topics are covered during the session

• Joomla 1.5 Fundamentals

  Fri, 18 Jun 2010, 03:00 - 05:00 in South Brisbane, Australia

  Training from Greg Egan from Learn ICTThis three hour workshop is for those who are running, or intending to run, the current (latest) version of Joomla - 1.5.This workshop will cover:* Getting Joomla* Installing Joomla* Understanding Content - Sections, Categories and Articles* Controlling Menus* Users and Groups* Templates - changing, installing and minor modifications* Working with Components, Modules and Plugins

• Introducing Designers to Joomla

  17-18 Jun 2010 in South Brisbane, Australia

  Training from Andrew EddieIntroducing Designers to Joomla is a short, half-day course (approximately 3.5 hours) that introduces designers to the Joomla templating system and customisation techniques.Course ContentThis course is aimed at people who are already web savvy and have already designed static HTML page sites or dabbled with Joomla web site design.

• Free Joomla! 1.6 Lectures

  Sat, 15 May 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Toowoomba, Australia

  Joomla core developer and co-founder Andrew Eddie will be giving a day of free lectures on Joomla 1.6 on Saturday, the 15th of May 2010 at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba, Australia, and you're invited. This is a unique opportunity to hear about the new Joomla 1.6 features and will be relevant for site administrators and developers alike.Andrew will give three lectures:1. An introduction to the new features in Joomla 1.6 for site administrators2.

• Why Joomla is the best CMS in the world!

  Mon, 15 Mar 2010, 09:00 - 11:00 in Brisbane, Australia

  There are thousands of web CMS but we think Joomla is the best in the world for the following reasons:* Short learning curve* Highly extensible with huge extension set* Strong community* Underlying PHP Framework* and more...This topic is for new people to Joomla, for Joomla developers trying to win work by highlighting Joomla's competitive advantages and for business and organisational managers evaluating Joomla.

• Joomla eCommerce in Detail

  Mon, 8 Feb 2010, 09:00 - 11:00 in Brisbane, Australia

  We haven't had a meeting on Joomla eCommerce yet, so I think the topic will be of interest.We'll have detailed presentations on VirtueMart and Magento but I'd like to make a presentation about OpenFreway as we will have a mature Beta of our new Joomlaised version. There will also be brief summaries of other eCommerce systems. If you want to make a presentation on one, just let me know.So if you are interested in making money using Joomla, come along and get a great update.

• End of year get together

  Mon, 23 Nov 2009, 09:00 - 11:00 in Brisbane, Australia

  We've had a good year in our Joomla Users Group, growing from zero to over 200 members. This meetup is a chance to celebrate the successes of the year and blow off some steam. Not sure where to have this yet. The iLab location is just a placeholder until we we get suggestions from group members today. Anyone got good ideas about a venue that has good food and drink, is not too busy, not too expensive and people from our group would feel at home in?

• Hints of building Joomla sites fast - and more...

  Tue, 1 Sep 2009, 09:00 - 11:00 in Brisbane, Australia

  We have not had a meeting for a couple of months. How about people come along with their current challenges around Joomla. I'll also arrange a case study to be presented by a group member. Something that seems to interest everyone is how to speed up the pace of development on sites so I'll arrange someone to give their take on this topic to start a lively discussion. I'd also like to talk about our progress towards creating a powerful Content Constructor Kit implementation for Joomla in Jentla.

• The inside scoop on Joomla 1.6

  Tue, 7 Jul 2009, 09:00 - 11:00 in Spring Hill, Australia

  Hi,Andrew Eddie has been hard at building Joomla 1.6 so let's have that as a focus of our meeting. Andrew is really busy so this will be an informal presentation but we'll put some effort into placing 1.6 into a context about where Joomla is headed. There is lot's of great stuff to look forward to!Damian Hickey will also do a presentation and demo about our new high end version of Jentla which does all the things a large corporate or government will want from Joomla.

• Joomla User Group Brisbane July Meetup

  Mon, 6 Jul 2009, 09:00 - 11:00 in Spring Hill, Australia

  In this global economic crisis people really are looking to Free and Open Source solutions and Joomla in particular as a shining light as a brilliant FOSS CMS with very deep community and commercial support. The Joomla Day event will be a showcase of the benefits of Joomla for those new to Joomla, those already developing Joomla and those interested in using Joomla to improve their business processes.We've been waiting a while for the first Joomla Day in Brisbane. It will be a great day!

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