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Detroit Location http://www.sfldlib.org/ Tuesday, December 15, 2009 7:00 PM Tuesday Night Event starts at 7:00 Updates and Maintenance Keeping Joomla! Up to Date Upgrading Components Working with a Development Site Please RSVP with Our Meetup.com Account   Read More for meeting agenda...

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Detroit Location Motor City Free Geek Technical Center 31690 Ryan Rd. Warren, MI 48092 Tuesday Night Event starts at 7:00 Updates and Maintenance Multi-Language with JoomFish... http://www.joomfish.net/ I just finished putting together my first multilingual website, www.hokunaia.com .  In this next session I will show you how it came about and how I used joomfish to accomplish this.   Please RSVP with Our Meetup.com Account   Read More for meeting agenda...

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Click here to check out The Detroit Joomla! Users Group!      Joomla! Detroit Resources from Chris

Detroit Location Motor City Free Geek Technical Center 31690 Ryan Rd. Warren, MI 48092 Tuesday Night Event starts at 7:00 This month Chris Minchington will be taking us through a first person tour of creating the new Motor City Free Geek website. You can check out a preview of the site here... http://qwrky.com/site... Read More for agenda...

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Detroit Location Motor City Free Geek Technical Center 31690 Ryan Rd. Warren, MI 48092 Tuesday Night Event starts at 7:00 Last month we had no real agenda at all, and it turned out pretty darn good I think.  So I intend to run headlong into the same experiment again.  Come with a web project or problem to share and we will field as many as we can and try to involve the group conversation. Otherwsite I will come with a couple of components to show off...

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Detroit Location Motor City Free Geek Technical Center 31690 Ryan Rd. Warren, MI 48092 Tuesday Night Event starts at 7:00

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This month we have a new presenter, Jason Shinn of www.ebusinesscounsel.comAs Joomla! developers, web entrepreneurs, and business folks I think Jason has some really valuable content that we will all enjoy interacting with.

The Nuts & Bolts of Conducting E-Commerce

By Jason Shinn

And the following month, I am planning on a focused review of Zoo, the new content creation kit from the yootheme folks. 

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Detroit Location Caroline Kennedy Library 24590 George St Dearborn Heights, MI 48127 Tuesday Night Event starts at 7:00  And the following month, I am planning on a focused review of Zoo, the new content creation kit from the yootheme folks.  Next meeting in July will probably focus on new features in the Beta release of Joomla! 1.6 and some of the developments with content construction kits like K2 and Zoo. We will be coming back west to Caroline Kennedy Library, Youth Program Room. The Dea. Hgts. North - Carolyn Kennedy Library is a great location just north of Ford and Telegraph.    http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-displaylibrary.pl?RC=19802 Thanks to Vincent for setting up this space for us...

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Detroit Location Caroline Kennedy Library 24590 George St Dearborn Heights, MI 48127 Wednesday Night Event starts at 7:00 And the following month, I am planning on a continued focus on Conent Construction Kits or CCKs

• Zoo, the new content creation kit from the yootheme folks.
• K2, from JoomlaWork
• Jseblod, the fully featured alternative

Comparison Spreadsheet

There was also mention of a comparison spreadsheet online for all of the Joomla! CCKs out there.  I did some mild mannererd googling, and came up with it here.

Here is the original forum post.

User Reviews

Want to see how these CCKs stack up on the user reviews, many of them are in the Joomla! Extention Directory.

Next Meeting Location

Next meeting in July will continue to focus on new features in the Beta release of Joomla! 1.6 and some of the developments with content construction kits like K2, Zoo, and Jseblod.
We will be coming back west to Caroline Kennedy Library, Youth Program Room.

The Dea. Hgts. North - Carolyn Kennedy Library is a great location just north of Ford and Telegraph. 
 
http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-displaylibrary.pl?RC=19802

Thanks to Vincent for setting up this space for us...

Click here to check out The Detroit Joomla! Users Group!

Detroit Location Caroline Kennedy Library 24590 George St Dearborn Heights, MI 48127 Tuesday Night Event starts at 7:00

• Zoo, the new content creation kit from the yootheme folks.
• K2, from JoomlaWork
• Jseblod, the fully featured alternative
• Drupal, the other CMS with a great CCK

Comparison Spreadsheet

There was also mention of a comparison spreadsheet online for all of the Joomla! CCKs out there.  I did some mild mannererd googling, and came up with it here.

Here is the original forum post.

User Reviews

Want to see how these CCKs stack up on the user reviews, many of them are in the Joomla! Extention Directory.

Next Meeting Location

Next meeting in July will continue to focus on new features in the Beta release of Joomla! 1.6 and some of the developments with content construction kits like K2, Zoo, and Jseblod.
We will be coming back west to Caroline Kennedy Library, Youth Program Room.

The Dea. Hgts. North - Carolyn Kennedy Library is a great location just north of Ford and Telegraph. 
 
http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-displaylibrary.pl?RC=19802

Thanks to Vincent for setting up this space for us...

Click here to check out The Detroit Joomla! Users Group!

Dearborn Location Caroline Kennedy Library 24590 George St Dearborn Heights, MI 48127 Tuesday Night Event starts at 7:00

Open Source Hosting Options

• Local Development Platforms, just for testing
• Shared Hosting, cheap and easy
• Virtual Private Server, flexible
• Dedicated Server, commitment
• Cloud Hosting,the best of all worlds... or too good to be true?

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Dearborn Location Caroline Kennedy Library 24590 George St Dearborn Heights, MI 48127 Tuesday Night Event starts at 7:00

We are teaming up with another local user group, Refresh Detroit.  Come out and meet a wider variety of Detroit area web professionals and entrepreneurs.

http://refresh-detroit.org/

I will attempt to inform the Refresh Detroit as to where Joomla! fits in within the grander discussion of web design and how it compares to other open source projects.

Here is a little bit about Refresh Detroit from their website...

Refresh Detroit is a part of the Refreshing Cities organization. We are a group of web professionals whose goal is to promote web standards, usability, and accessibility, and to spread the knowledge of web design in the Detroit and Ann Arbor Michigan areas.