The Joomla Developer community web site has been re-vamped using Joomla 1.5.

The developer site is a great place to keep upto date with what is happening in the Joomla development and is frequently updated with information releating to the ongoing development of Joomla by over 50 bloggers.

To find out more about the latest activities covering the Joomla! Development Working Group, which includes both the Joomla! Development Team and the Joomla! Bug Squad then visit the Joomla developer web site.

The Joomla! Sites and Infrastructure Working Group is having its first general meeting on Friday, June 13, 2008 which will be held in conjunction with Joomla! Day Vancouver. The purpose of the meeting is discuss issues relating to moderating practices and member involvement in the Joomla! forums plus more.

Joomla! Day Vancouver begins at 9:00 AM on Saturday, June 14, and the Speakers attending the event include Chris Adams, Brad Baker, Levis Bisson, Michelle Bisson, Steve Burge, Louis Landry, Jennifer Marriott, and Toni Marie Swats.

To find out more read the offical post

Sites and Infrastructure Meeting at Joomla! Day Vancouver

The spanish Joomla community are holding a get together on Saturday, April 19th, 2008. The event will take place at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

The agenda for the day will cover the the following topics

• A presentation on the Joomla! project, community, and directions by Franck Scipion, event organizer.
• Practical tips and development examples using the Joomla! 1.5 framework and a discussion of multi-lingual support for Joomla 1.5 using JoomFish will be shared by Alex Kempkens, Joomla! Core Team member.
• The value of collaboration and cooperation will be the focus of Joomla! Core Team member Chris Davenport’s presentation. The project is working to encourage broader involvement given lessons learned from GHOP, GSoC, Bug Smashing and Doc Camp events, and even through use of simple tools, like Wikis.
• A round table discussion led by experienced Joomla! site developers with corporate, educational, event, eCommerce, and community-driven Web sites, will reveal helpful strategies and interesting case studies.
• Breakout sessions will cover diverse topics, such as installation, migration to Joomla! 1.5, SEO optimization, extension development, designing groups in Joomla! 1.5, security, and community support issues.

For more information and to read the offical announcement visit the Joomlaspanish.org web site

The French Joomla community have announced their second annual Joomla! Day which will take place on Sunday, April 27, 2008, in Paris.

Michelle Bisson, Joomla! Core Team Member will traveling from Quebec to the meeting to discuss the Joomla! project, working group roles and responsibilities, and how our international community has worked together in order to build Joomla! into one of the greatest open source content management systems in the world.

The following topics will also be covered during the meeting.

Getting started with Joomla!
Joomla! 1.5 Templates
Joomla! and the JCE editor
Using Joomla! for social networking sites
Virtuemart, the open source solution for e-buying
Developing Joomla! extensions
Meet the experts, a panel discussion with all presenters

For more information read the offical post at the Joomla! web site.

Joomla! Day France 2008

The Joomla community have announced the availability of Joomla! 1.5.2 [Woi]. The latest release is a maintenance update which addresses some minor bugs plus updates.

The updates include the following.

• Support for non-Gregorian date output
• Removed dependency on server locales for date output
• TCPDF Upgraded:
• Supports RTL languages
• Supports GIF images inline in generated PDF (if PHP extension GD2 is enabled)
• Fix for cache folder deletion with legacy mode enabled
• Disable page caching when debug is enabled
• Ability to disable Flash Uploader in Media Manager
• OpenID functionality fixes
• Advanced article filtering options now available using Article Preferences

API Changes:

• Addition of JFactory::getDate() to get a JDate object (supports overloading of JDate for non-Gregorian dates)
• Addition of JExit()
• JView::get() defers correctly to JObject::get()

For more information about the latest release read the offical announcement at the Joomla web site.