Schedule:

• 10:45 Joomla! 101 - Topic will be posted as it becomes available.
• 11:40, Short Break
• 11:45, CMS EXPO Summary - Jess Dunbar
• 12:15, Short Break
• 12:20, CCK for Joomla: mountain vs. jungle (K2 vs. ZOO) Part 2 - Vic Drover
• 12:45, Site Showcase - Michael Stedemann, http://www.naturalpathhealthcenter.com/
• 1:00, Group troubleshooting/open discussion

• 1:15, Announcements and networking
  • JCal Pro 2 (Stable) released
  • Upcoming events?
    
    • Milwaukee - Chicago JUG Outing - July 11th
    • JDay New England - May 30
    • JDay NYC - October 12
    • JNight New Orleans - October 31 (or the 28?)
  • Speaker(s) for next meeting
    • Jess Dunbar - Spam control for Joomla
    • who else?
  • Site Showcase for next meeting ??
  • Thanks:
    • Joomla 101 moderators
    • Anything Digital and Connexion Tech
    • ARC Technologies
    • Jess and Michael

  Speakers:

  Jess Dunbar
  
• Working with a sister company since January 2009, to work on a statewide enterprise site using Joomla. The project focuses on advertising local businesses.The website has already has sales over $500,000.00 before it was launched.
• Passion for technology with a background including Networking and Computer Science.
• Self taught Web developer with ten years of experience developing websites. After using FrontPage, Dreamweaver and .Net Jess found Joomla! and never looked back.
• Invited to speak in the Netherlands on Social Networking, Google, and Search engine optimization.
• Will be working with a professor at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point to set up a JUG in Central Wisconsin.
• In her free time she enjoys playing softball, volleyball and various sports. She has played on a Class A National Softball Team and enjoys watching the Milwaukee Brewers and Green Bay Packers with her family and Friends.
  

  
  

  Victor Drover:
• Professor Drover is on Faculty at the Medical College of Wisconsin (Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry) where he spends his days exploring the mechanistic details of dietary fat utilization and their impact on the development of diabetes and heart disease.
• Prior to moving to Milwaukee in 2007, he was a Faculty member at SUNY Stony Brook (New York).
• Victor obtained his Undergraduate, Master and Doctoal degrees in Canada. During his time as a career student up North, he started his web design firm Anything Digital (1997) and primarily built static web sites for amateur sports teams.
• After emigrating to America in 2002, he discovered Mambo and Joomla, and began implementing dynamic solutions to clients based on this infrastructure.
• In 2005, Victor began maintaining his own repository of Extcal, a Mambo extension that evolved into the JCal Pro extension for Joomla. In July 2007, JCal Pro was released as a commercial GPL extension, one of the first of it's kind in the Joomlasphere.
• In December of 2008, Victor joined the editorial team on the Joomla! extensions directory and co-founded the JUG Milwaukee.
• When not in the laboratory, Victor continues to manage the staff and direction at Anything Digital and keeps a keen eye on all product development and testing.