Kiama Joomla User Group

KJUG Meeting Minutes for 28 June 2008

Not much to report this meeting

Took sometime to get users to have joomla operational, but after getting Sandra and Tracy going, and Graeme agreed to watch, yes we were having a Joomla user group meeting!!

• Went through global settings
• Stared to look at Menus
• Installed a template and played around with it.

KJUG Meeting Minutes for 31 May 2008

Helping us help each other

Election of office holders for 12 months

• Convener – course of meetings – Tim
  
• Treasurer – monies for tea/coffee, milk, munchies (remote hosting around $100-120 per annum)? – $5 per meeting – Position TBA
  
• Secretary (rotates)

Meeting place:

• Kiama Library
  

Meeting time:

• (2 hrs @ 2pm per month @ Library)

Minutes:

• Secretary (rotated) published on blog

Blog

• Feedreader – RSS feeds, way to go
• Using the blog’s tags and categories
• All members are Editors except admin
• Q&A on blog

General support and documenation

• The CD
  • CD contents word file
  • IE7 and Opera
• www.joomla.org
• Extensions

• • new extensions
  • recent upgrades
  • Commercial vs Non-commercial vs Registered

• Joomla forum
• Joomla documentation wiki

Website

• An idea – buy host space on Joomla friendly host for JKUGgers to have their own sub domains to play with.
• Cheaper for all concerned
• Investigate to see if it will work

Meeting finishes 5pm. Next meeting 28-6-8 at Library @ 2pm