What a day! Gabe and I have been working feverishly for the last 5 weeks to get the first Joomla Milwaukee meeting organized. It looks like our hard work paid off as over 35 people turned up. There were people of all interests and experience levels and were it not for the robust participation of the group, I might have thought folks just showed up for the free lunch (thanks Arc Technology for the grub and Joe for the great blog post).

I've just read an interesting "anti-joomla" article called "How to choose the right CMS". While I don't agree with the broad-stroked advice of the author regarding Joomla, I was intrigued by some of the promising new CMS options out there.

In particular, I liked the look of Concrete5 CMS and the"What is concrete5" demo video got me even more interested after just the first 60 seconds.

Well it's official, JoomlaMilwaukee.com is now a recognized Joomla! User Group (JUG).

Elin Waring,  President of Open Source Matters (the copyright and trademark holder of the Joomla! project) wrote this morning to say that we are officially "Joomla! User Group Milwaukee II". As soon as the administrative tasks are completed at Joomla.org, I'll be updating this site to indicate the status change.

Hello Milwaukee!

You've reached the home of Joomla in Milwaukee and the surrounding area.  I am totally pumped as there i only a week until our first meetup on Jan 29.

There are less than a dozen seats remainingfor this meeting and I can't wait to see you all there.