The Vancouver Joomla! DocCamp event starts

Vancouver Joomla DocCamp Jan19

Yes … we are here! We actually started around 9:30 and more people joined in. We started our day with a group discussion about Content Management Systems, their concept, differences and such. We also discussed their impact on our everyday lives and organizations that use them. Then learned a little more about the history of Joomla CMS project and the fact that it is a free and open source open source

Our team consist of 3 main groups of people. Writers, Designers and Developers. The night before I installed a copy of Joomla 1.5 and created Administrator accounts for all the participants. This way we could all poke around and play with CMS front-end interface and back-end administration panel. People had some questions regarding the Joomla Section, Category, Article management and how they relate to the Joomla Menu Management system and whether Joomla’s is able to handle a solid Content Editorial and approval process. We also discussed how Joomla! CMS frame work can turn into an intranet and social networking framework in several stages.

In this session all participants are free to use any Internet medium they are most comfortable with. Some are using their blogs to write about their first experience with Joomla and how it works, and a few have actually signed up for accounts on the Joomla Documentation Wiki (http://docs.joomla.org) so they can directly contribute the Joomla knowledge repository.

In my upcoming blog posts I would like to introduce our participants one by one and tell you more about them.

[tags]vancouver, doccamp, joomla, rmdstudio, community, open source, documentation, collaboration[/tags]

Blogosphere just got better!

My good friend and business associate, Ash Sanieyan from PeerGlobe Technology, has launched his new website and blog. PeerGlobe’s new website is powered by the Joomla CMS version 1.5 and so far it looks pretty good. Ash is constantly improving the site as he is going. Once he told me that he can’t wait until everything is perfect and I agreed. That is exactly why we have created content management systems so we can gradually fine-tune and grow the content of our websites.

Ash Sanieyan at the Adobe AIR Workshop - The Network Hub, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Ash is a brilliant developer, and his specialties are Ruby on Rails, Facebook Applications, and Mobile Applications. Just two nights ago we hosted the Adobe AIR Workshop together at The Network Hubs, and he was showing everyone how to put a flex user interface on top of a Ruby On Rails MVC design.

PeerGlobes blog is still new. We are looking forward to many useful insights that Ash will publish for us.

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Vancouver Joomla Doc Camp Event January19th 2008

We have 4 days left to the Vancouver’s first Joomla! DocCamp event. This is a community collaborative documentation event for the newly released open source content management system Joomla! 1.5.

Just to let you know that we are not going to sit in isolated seats and write boring user instructions inside a Wiki. This is supposed to be a fun social event, therefore we are going to do the complete opposite:

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The rmd Studio Facebook page is up

My Facebook Page

A little facebook promotion wouldn’t hurt 😉
Would you care becoming our facebook page fan please? (I dislike the term fan) but supporter, encourager, and something in that category!

If you are on the facebook and would like to follow our news, events, products, services, and narcissistic self portraits while we are at work then click here to go to our facebook page.

You do need to have a facebook account to be able to see it of course!

[tags]facebook, page, rmdstudio, vancouer, marketing, promotion[/tags]

Vancouver Adobe AIR Workshop

Adobe® AIR™ is this nifty technology that allows web developers to use their existing knowledge of HTML, AJAX, Flash, and Flex and develop desktop applications that are actually powered by web applications !!!

Cool isn’t it?

Why don’t you join us for a evening of breath taking Adobe AIR and learn to:

  • Create your first Flex and AIR app from scratch
  • Create your first database driver flex and AIR app using JAVA, PHP and Ruby on Rails
  • Create custom components and flex component overview and how to use somebody else’s flex components!!
  • Understanding Caringorm 2.2, Live Cycle Data Services

Workshop will be held at the beautiful Network Hub 3rd floor – 422 Richards Street Vancouver on January 16th from 6:00 – 9:00 PM

If you have developed any Adobe AIR applications, we would like to also invite you to be on the spot light and make little presentation for us. I’m sure many would love to know more about your great development skills.

There will be free Coffee and Snacks served at the event

This workshop is sponsored by:

PeerGlobe Technologies

The Network Hub - Startup Launch Pad

rmd Studio Inc. - Custom CMS & Social Media Technology Solutions

Tazzu Business & Technology Community

[tags]adobe air, vancouver, networkhub, web application, desktop application[/tags]