Joomla Day Bosnia and Herzegovina 2011

 Joomla BA community is proud to announce the first Joomla Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina!

First Joomla Day conference will be held in small city of Tesanj in middle Bosnia. It will be held from 12. until 14. August 2011.

This event will be a first event of this kind and with more then 8 of the most knowledgeable speakers and trainers mostly from Europe countries but also from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This 2 day event will include presentations and workshops held on two different locations in Tesanj. Partner of First Joomla Day conference is Municipality of Tesanj.

Event Date: Friday Aug 12th, 2011 - Saturday Aug 14th, 2011

WEB: www.joomla.ba/konferencija
Contact: konferencija@joomla.ba
City info: Wikipedia

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Adobe Ideas 1.2 released to AppStore!

Version 1.2 is available for download worldwide!
Adobe® Ideas is your digital sketchbook, letting you capture and explore ideas anywhere you go. Adobe Ideas is an ideal companion for the professional design applications from Adobe, including Adobe Illustrator® and Adobe Photoshop®. Now with a new in-app purchase option, you can get up to 10 drawing layers plus a photo layer for each sketch as well as layer transformations – move, rotate and scale each layer.
Sketch design concepts while sitting in a cafe, capture and store color themes while browsing through the photos on your phone, or jot down notes on a photo. Any time you need to explore creative ideas, Adobe Ideas is there with you.

Features:

• Simple vector-based drawing tools
• Zoom without jaggies or big pixels
• Variable-size brushes using multi-touch control
• Vector eraser
• Gallery-style organizer to quickly scroll through your ideas and color themes
• Huge virtual canvas
• Display ideas on an external VGA display (requires VGA adapter)
• Automatic creation of harmonized color themes from your photos or images
• Pick specific colors from photos or images easily
• Separate drawing and photo layers
• Easy creation of multiple versions of design concepts
• 50-level undo/redo
• Fast zooming and panning
• Save drawing to “saved photos” album on iPad and iPhone
• Ability to email ideas as PDF files for editing in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop or for viewing with any PDF viewer
• Available in French, German and Japanese
In-app Purchase:
• Layers: available for in-app purchase. Create up to 10 drawing layers plus a photo layer for each sketch; control order and opacity for each layer. New Move tool offers move, scale and rotate for each layer.
What’s new in version 1.2:
New Layers functionality (Premium feature): $4.99. Create up to 10 drawing layers plus a photo layer for each sketch; control order and opacity for each layer. New Layers Move tool offers move, scale and rotate for each layer.
• Huge performance improvement to zooming and panning
• VGA Out – connect to an external display or projector to show sketch content real-time (requires Apple VGA adapter)
• Left/Right toolbar setting- customize the location of your toolbar.
• Improved stroke smoothing. Some smoothing occurs while drawing.

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Joomla Day France 2011

The French Speaking Joomla! Users Association (AFUJ) is proud to announce the 5th Joomladay France in Lyon.

Four hundred open source experts, business users, developers, and community users are expected to come to Conference Center "Espace Tête d'Or", in the second-largest metropolitan area in France.
This event will be a top notch event with 16 very most knowledgeable speakers (high level users, professionnals or developpers themselves!) from the Joomla community.

This 2 day event will include 2 tracks, a beginners track and an advanced track so there will be something for everyone, no matter what your experience level:

- Saturday : a special day for french speaking users like a Forum in Real Life !
 Many thematics workshops on specific topics to work in small groups of difficult issues.

 - Sunday : many conferences on topics such as Joomla 1.6, its new framework and multilanguage functionnality, Community Builder, Virtuemart, backups extensions, Flexicontent, K2, templating and templates framework, JFusion, SEO... And a special beginners day! These beginners will therefore explore the creation of Joomla site, from A to Z, with the bonus of a USB key containing all the available knowledge necessary. Together they will spotlight Joomla! and its features, community, and resources.

 An ideal opportunity to get to know others around France, Belgium, Switzerland, and many more country using Joomla!

Date: Saturday, April 2nd & Sunday, April 3rd 2011
Venue: Conference Center "Espace Tête d'Or", Lyon, France

Registration is limited, so make sure that you get your tickets in time!
For more information, follow us on Twitter, visit www.joomladay.fr

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Joomla Night Stockholm: World Wildlife Foundation Uses Joomla

This weekend is Joomla!Night Stockholm. Click here for more information on the event.

This is the second Joomla event to take part in a new tradition we're starting in 2011: Before each Joomla!Day / Joomla!Night around the world we're going to feature a great local Joomla site.

In Sweden we have http://www.minplanet.se. Minplanet is an initiative of Världsnaturfonden WWF, the Swedish part of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and encourages the Swedish people to become even more environmentally conscious.
In 2009 the website won a prize as #44 of the top 100 sites in Sweden in a yearly competition arranged by Internetworld (IDG). Click here to read more.

The website which has 20,000 members is built with extensions for community, blog, forum, events and more. In addition, some major custom extensions have been developed by the Pixpro team in Stockholm, such as the Green promise (Miljölöftet).

”This was launched in the fall 2009, and since, one of the swedish counties runs a competitition to see which cities have saved the greatest amount of carbon emissions. They can follow their results in realtime on Minplanet, ” says Elin, editor in chief at Minplanet

One of the custom components was for Google Maps. itshows the dots of the people that took "Green promises" (vowed to save a certain amount of energy...for example "only use public transport" and so on).

There's a list of over 100 different "Green promises" that people can choose from and add to their profile. Our component then automatically calculates the amount of saved carbon dioxide and puts it into their user profile which is then displayed on the google map.

 

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Adobe AIR News Roundup: 10/12/2010

With the recent release of Adobe AIR for Android and upcoming preparations for our Adobe MAX conference, there is significant amount of AIR-related news to monitor including new tutorials, featured applications and development libraries. Although our team is active on Twitter and Facebook, we plan on posting news roundups on the Adobe AIR team blog in coming weeks to help the community learn about the latest news.
News Roundup: 10/12/2010

• The Adobe ActionScript 3 SDK for the Facebook Platform provides an ideal solution for building rich, social experiences on the web. Recently this library was updated to include new capabilities and bug fixes. Using this open source library, developers can quickly build Flash and AIR apps across devices and screens. Alan Greenblatt, a Flex partner solution architect at Adobe, recorded a video tutorial demonstrating how to take advantage of this library.
• Adobe evangelist Lee Brimelow recorded a video demonstration that shows how to build and publish an application to the Android market in under seven minutes.
• Ryan Stewart recorded a session on Adobe TV titled "Debug Adobe AIR for Android Applications." For developers looking to understand the basic developer workflow for troubleshooting issues in their apps using Flash Builder, Ryan’s recording provides a valuable overview.
• AppBrain is currently maintaining a list of AIR applications available on the Android market.
• Rich Tretola built an application that demonstrates "accelerometer, camera, geolocation, multitouch, stage orientation, and keyboard events.
• The Land of Me is a collection of playful learning activities that adults and children can enjoy together. The application, developed by a very talented team at Made in Me, allows adventurers aged 2 years old and above to explore a colorful, enchanting world with heartwarming characters. The first chapter is available free and additional chapters are available for purchase. The application recently caught the eye of the BBC News Channel. Congratulations to the team at Made in Me for building such an inspiring application! 

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Are JUGs worth it?

Several Joomla User Groups (JUG) have reports of around a hundred people attending, joomladays might have 3-400 people attend. So why in some cases do JUGs only have 4 or 5 attend their meetings and 100 at a national event?

How do you make a JUG successful, is it food? beer? or dancing penguins and a late night disco?

Several JUGs have on an average membership of 40 people, but few ever turn up. Here is an example of trying to get one JUG off the ground. (this is not a JUG I have attended!)

The first meeting was highly publicised across Joomla and twitter. It attracted loads of responses, the room was booked, about 12 people turned up. Apparently they enjoyed themselves and were looking forward to the next event.
 

At the next event around 20 people turned up. All Joomla users again, but only 8 were of the ones that turned up the time before.
 

Due to circumstances, the next meeting was 3 months later, but this time with star billing of some serious professional Joomla people.
 

Despite the assurances and confirmations of around 20 people, only 7 turned up. Yes for those that turned up, it was enjoyable, informative and new connections were made. But is there a point in the next meeting?
 

How do you or would you go about making your JUG successful? can you share your tips?

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