Please post your topics for discussion for Wednesday night here.

Hi Partic,

During the last couple of weeks I've been wondering about some topics I would like to discuss on the Brisbane Group Meeting. You might be able to raise them on the Melb Meeting if you find them interesting.

Extensions development and the use of MVC pattern
I see the potential of the MVC pattern on the 1.5 version but there are many web developers that don't use it at all on Joomla component development.
Questions: How important is the use of software engineering techniques(MVC) on Joomla programming? When to use?

The competition with online freelancers
Lets say I am interested in getting a freelance trough a web site like www.joomlancers.com or www.elance.com. Once I start looking at the jobs and the offers I wonder how Joomla developers can compete with such low prices and big solutions.
Questions: How reasonable should I be when posting my bid? Is it possible to compete as a serious developer? Is that worth?

Taking Joomla seriously
Sometimes I listen Programmers with different backgrounds(.NET, JAVA, etc) under estimating the potential of the Joomla Framework.
Questions: Why is that?

Thats it! Let me know how it goes.

Cheers!
Jose Soares

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This is the first email notification I have rec'd so I figured I had best come along

A maybe for me tonight....

Thanks Jose for highlighting some questions from BJUG meeting, I believe all of them are relevant across to all Joomla developers/users.

We'll definitely be there tonight

Cool guys, let me know how it goes.

Some of the sites discussed tonight:

FREEWAY Open Source ECommerce - www.openfreeway.org
DIMDIM - Video conferencing - www.dimdim.com
DIMDIM OPEN SOURCE - www.dimdim.com/opensource/dimdim_open_so...mmunity_edition.html

Can anyone fill me in on this?

We gotta do something about offering easy access to the minutes of each meeting guys.
It took me a full five minutes to just get here... (Seaching had me in Canberra's area!)

Can we add another menu on the LHS that only appears for logged in users and when Melbourne nav is linked?

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!

As always, please message me if I have a boo-boo or to update your details etc.

Minutes seem accurate to me ... excellent job thank you

BTW

Still dont have an answer to the Question I posted ... what date is proposed for J! Day 09???