Start: 2010/05/11 - 7:30pm End: 2010/05/11 - 9:00pm Location: O'Reilly Media Speaker: Doug Bierer description: Joomla is a content management system (CMS), which enables you to build multi-user Web sites quickly. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular free and open source Web site software available. Joomla, which operates on top of a LAMP stack (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP-perl), is designed to be easy to install and set up even if you're not an advanced user. Many Web hosting services offer a single-click install, getting your new site up and running in just a few minutes. If your clients need specialized functionality, Joomla is highly extensible and thousands of extensions (most for free under the GPL license) are available in the Joomla Extensions Directory . "In the talk, Doug Bierer, founder of unlikelysource.com, which maintains an open source Joomla extension, will cover: - what is Joomla and why it may be useful to you - rapid website development using Joomla - expanding beyond the core by installing extensions - how you can write your own Joomla modules -- Kyle Rankin NBLUG President The North Bay Linux Users' Group http://nblug.org IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug kyle(a)nblug.org