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From: Unigroup_of_NY <unilist(a)unigroup.org>
Subject: UNIGROUP Meeting 19-JUN-2008 (Thu): Web Development: Joomla! (updated)

NOTE: Unigroup meeting is Thursday, in a NEW meeting location!
Please RSVP _immediately_ if you have not already done so,
if you will be attending, so we can order the proper amount
of food (by 5pm today).

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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - JUNE 2008 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S JUNE 2008 MEETING NOTICE
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When: THURSDAY, June 19, 2008 (** 3rd Thursday **)

Where: ** NEW LOCATION **
Suspenders Restaurant
Rear Event Room
111 Broadway (South of Thames St, North of Pine/Wall Sts).
Lower Manhattan, New York City
** Please RSVP (not mandatory) **

Time: 6:15 PM - 6:25 PM Registration
6:25 PM - 6:45 PM Ask the Wizard, Questions,
Answers and Current Events
6:45 PM - 7:00 PM Unigroup Business and Announcements
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation

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Topic: Web Development: The Joomla! Content Management System
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Speaker: Anthony Ferrara,
Bigtrue INC.

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INTRODUCTION:
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**Note we have a NEW meeting location... for the first time,
we are meeting at Suspenders Restaurant on Broadway, which is
a couple of blocks East and North of our old meeting location.
A few other local user groups meet at this location. We are
planning to replicate our usual spread of food and soft drinks.

At this month's meeting, our presenter from last month,
Anthony Ferrara, will be presenting the Joomla! Content
Management System. Anthony gave us a great presentation on
Apache and FastCGI Web Server Performance at our May meeting.

We have confirmed a great BSD presentation for our July 17th
meeting... FreeBSD 7 Part 2... a followup presentation from
George Neville-Neil of the The FreeBSD Project Core Team...
tentatively something along the lines of: The FreeBSD
Networking Stack (including recent work on supporting very
high speed Ethernet standards, and security/packet filtering).
(George is doing this work on the FreeBSD network stack.)

We are also planning a Launch Meeting for recent releases of
Solaris and OpenSolaris (Project Indiana).

Novell is also interested in hosting a meeting on SuSE Linux
(possibly on the Real-Time Linux Kernel, which was being
demonstrated at the SIFMA show last week).

We have also found a new contact inside of Apple, so we hope
to set up a technical meeting on OSX as well.

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SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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To REGISTER for this event, please RSVP by using the Unigroup
Registration Page:
http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-rsvp.html

This will allow us to automate the registration process.
(Registration will also add you to our mailing list.)
Please avoid emailed RSVPs.

Please continue to check the Unigroup web site and meeting page,
for any last minute updates concerning this meeting. If you
registered for this meeting, please check your email for any last
minute announcements as the meeting approaches. Also make sure
any anti-spam white-lists are updated to _ALLOW_ Unigroup traffic!
If you block Unigroup Emails, your address will be dropped from our
mailing list.

Please RSVP as soon as possible.

Note: RSVP is not mandatory for this location, but it does help
us to properly plan the meeting (food, drinks, handouts,
seating, etc.).

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MAIN PRESENTATION
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Topic: Web Development: The Joomla! Content Management System

Joomla! is an award winning php/MySQL based Content Management
System. It is designed to be both very simple to use, very
extendible, and very powerful. Joomla! was a fork off of Mambo
in late 2005, and has been growing feverishly ever since. The
project as a whole has well over 8 years of active GPL development.

Brief overview:
- What is Joomla!
- Why not write your own?
- Common misconceptions about Joomla!
- Joomla from a Developer's view
- How Joomla! scales.
- Fundamental differences between other platforms
(Drupal, WordPress, etc)


Web Resources:
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The Joomla CMS
http://joomla.org
http://docs.joomla.org

JoomlaPerformance (Anthony's Joomla site):
http://www.joomlaperformance.com

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Speaker Biography:
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Anthony Ferrara is the team lead of the Joomla! Bug Squad, a
member of the Joomla! Developer work group, owner and operator
of JoomlaPerformance.com, and has released open source several
caching programs to increase website speed. He has quite varied
background ranging from Mathematics to Emergency
Medicine (and quite a bit in between).

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Company Biography:
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Anthony's company, Bigtrue INC, specializes in consulting and
development focusing on performance (specializing in
the Joomla CMS).

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Giveaways:
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Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR has been kind
enough to provide us with some of their books, which we will
continue to raffle off as giveaways at our meetings.

O'Reilly has been kind enough to provide us with some of their
books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our
meetings.

Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support
provided by their User Group programs.

Note: The chances tend to be about 1 in 5, that any attendee of
our meeting will walk away with a fairly valuable giveaway
(ie. most books are valued between $30 and $60)!

** Thanks to our friends at Sun Microsystems, Unigroup also has
some Solaris 10 DVDs to raffle off.

As always, all of the books will be available for review at the
start of the meeting.

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Fee Schedule:
Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00
Non-Member Single Meeting: $ 20.00
Student Yearly Membership (with ID): $ 25.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with ID): $ 5.00
Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.

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Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This includes
"wraps" such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled
vegetables as well as assorted salads (potato, tossed,
pasta, etc), cookies, brownies, bottled water and assorted SOFT
beverages.

** Note: We are not yet sure about the exact nature of the food
at our new meeting location.

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Directions:

Suspenders Restaurant
Rear Event Room
111 Broadway (South of Thames St., North of Pine/Wall Sts.)
Wall Street Area
Lower Manhattan, New York City

This facility has free Wi-Fi and a VGA Projector/Screen.

Located on the West side of Broadway, as an underground restaurant,
just North of Wall Street. Cross Streets: Between Thames (North)
and Pine (South) Streets.

There are multiple blocks of parking lots a couple of blocks to
the West, between Washington and Greenwich Streets, starting at
the Battery Tunnel and extending North for a number of blocks.

Nearest mass transit stations, are the '4/5' (Wall Street),
'R/W' (Rector Street), '1/9' (Rector Street), '2/3'.

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Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
Please tell your friends about Unigroup!

< general information about UNIGROUP removed; see http://www.unigroup.org />

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-Rob Weiner
Unigroup Executive Director
unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org
http://www.unigroup.org

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