Sessions

Saturday November 17, 14:00-14:45 in Auditorium, by Steve Fisher Keynote

The web is not a fixed width. So if the medium is fluid, should the process be fixed? Fireworks and Photoshop are not flexible enough to demonstrate media queries, button and menu states, HTML5 and JavaScript behaviors, dynamic resizing of elements and navigation flow. Diving into responsive design projects can be daunting. Old design practices are cumbersome when thinking in terms of web systems that will span a wide variety of devices and dimensions. Steve will delve into how he handles the r...

Friday November 16, 15:00-16:00 in Room 4, by Ronni K.G. Christiansen Integrator

There is many options for Ecommerce with Joomla - but none other than redSHOP tries to aim for the highscale ecommerce sites natively built on Joomla with advanced features and integrations. In this presentation Ronni will go through some of the key aspects of running an advanced ecommerce site with Joomla, redSHOP, redCRM and an integration to an online ERP system. The goal will be to demonstrate how Joomla can be utilized to make a ecommerce site that is in the pricerange of $100.000 on a bud...

Friday November 16, 11:15-12:15 in Room 3, by Peter van Westen Integrator

Modules give your website power and appeal. You can turn your dull site into an exiting and dynamic masterpiece. Unfortunately, Joomla! only gives you limited control over defining on what pages your modules are placed. You can only do this based on the menu items. This is where Advanced Module Manager comes in and throws all limitations aside. We'll look at the different possibilities it gives you to assign modules to... well... to virtually anything you can think of. Be ready for an in-depth ...

Friday November 16, 16:30-17:30 in Room 2, by Jessica Dunbar Integrator

Adventures in project management. This session we will discuss the project management, and process. Define Project management and differentiate between project and process management Describe the causes of failed projects The basic functions of project management Project Management Tools The 8 activities in every project Scope, and Statements of work Work breakdown structure Estimated tasks and durations Assign resources and Scheduling...

Saturday November 17, 16:15-17:15 in Room 3, by Ryan Ozimek Integrator

Pairing Joomla with a best-of-breed CRM service gives organizations and companies a full end-to-end integration of their marketing, sales, and operation processes. Bridging the gap between the front-end sales and marketing tools, and the back-office services in a CRM tool is a functionality that helps organizations in this streamling process. In this presentation, we'll cover best practices in integrating Joomla with CRM services, making it easy to provide payment processing services, event reg...

Friday November 16, 15:00-16:00 in Room 3, by Andrea Tarr Developer

How to take advantage of the bootstrap framework in your extension so you can leave the designing to the designers....

Saturday November 17, 14:45-15:45 in Room 2, by Kyle Ledbetter Designer

The goal of the JUX in Joomla 3.0 is to standardize the UI across Joomla components. Let's have a discussion with component devs, template designers and end users about which UI design patterns should become the new standard for Joomla 3.0. We can even break out the laptops and show the beauty of Bootstrap by producing some rapid application prototypes and reveal how extensions developers are empowered by the new Joomla JUI....

Sunday November 18, 15:15-16:15 in Room 2, by Sam Moffatt Developer

This session will walk through building a simple services application using the Joomla! Platform, building a simple web application and then tying the two together to build a complete AJAX powered application. Great for people interested in building applications outside of the CMS as a simple introduction on how to achieve this....

Sunday November 18, 10:00-11:00 in Room 5, by Christopher Nielsen Case Study

I will discuss topics ranging from the questions beginners should ask when developing a community site with Joomla CMS to exploration of some advance features we built for the Puget Sound Partnership's mypugetsound.net community portal. This was a 3 year government support contract with the State of Washington which had many interesting process challenges and rich feature integrations....

Friday November 16, 16:30-17:30 in Room 3, by Louis Landry Developer

At eBay, we've leveraged the Joomla Platform to build RESTful service applications, slick web applications, and job execution daemons to perform long-running tasks asynchronously. In this talk we will go over how we design our systems, the ways that we have had to stretch (and in some cases change) the Joomla Platform, and if possible give a brief tour of the applications....

Friday November 16, 17:30-18:15 in Auditorium, by Pascal Finette Keynote

Mozilla created with Firefox an unlikely success story - bringing an Open Source product to a global consumer market and competing with some of the largest companies in the world along the way. In his keynote Pascal will take you on a journey through the colorful history of Mozilla - from the modest beginnings as a skunkworks project at Netscape to an organization which, in the face of mobile, currently reinvents itself. Along the way you will learn about the key lessons Mozilla learned and ho...

Friday November 16, 16:30-17:30 in Room 1, by Achim Fischer Developer

There's an app for that! Well, at least one is on it's way to Android 4 (ICS) devices. In this presentation I will show you the upcoming Joomla! client "Chimoora" and what it means to bring the experience of a Joomla! powered website to mobile devices in general. The first version of Chimoora will support Joomla! featured articles (Blogs) and Discussions (forum extension). Marketplace (classified ads), Private Messages (now part of Discussions) and more will follow. Both sides, the native Andro...

Friday November 16, 11:15-12:15 in Room 7, by Joomla Production Leadership Team (PLT) Developer

Version 4.0 of the CMS is due in less than 18 months. It provides a chance to move to a unified content model, adopt new features from the platform and produce a modern, flexible, forward looking CMS. Discuss what CMS4 should be and how we get it built....

Friday November 16, 12:15-13:15 in Room 7, by Joomla Production Leadership Team (PLT) Developer

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Friday November 16, 19:00-00:00 in Room 6, by Joomla Production Leadership Team (PLT) Developer

Join us for a chance to show off your coding skills by squishing bugs. This is a good chance to be walked through how you can submit code to Joomla. Testers are also welcome, but you should have your computer already set up to install patches and run Joomla locally. In at least one for these bug squish sessions we will be going over testing your code and creating unit tests. We will also work on code styles and show you how to use a tool to locate code style different issues....

Saturday November 17, 19:00-00:00 in Room 6, by Joomla Production Leadership Team (PLT) Developer

Join us for a chance to show off your coding skills by squishing bugs. This is a good chance to be walked through how you can submit code to Joomla. Testers are also welcome, but you should have your computer already set up to install patches and run Joomla locally. In at least one for these bug squish sessions we will be going over testing your code and creating unit tests. We will also work on code styles and show you how to use a tool to locate code style different issues....

Saturday November 17, 09:45-10:45 in Room 4, by Elin Waring Developer

We call it a content management system but what does that mean in the web today? What we mean by web content has changed radically since 2003 when the Joomla!'s content model was created. New ideas like the Unified Content Model are poised to reshape how we think about creating and managing original content. At the same time, the web is more and more about pulling and pushing data from all over and web site construction is about putting together external data in original and compelling ways that...

Saturday November 17, 10:45-11:45 in Room 1, by David Hurley Developer

This session is designed to be a very detailed, close approach to developing applications based on the Joomla! platform as the framework. Intended for developers interested in seeing examples and learning more about the steps involved with releasing a stand-alone application. Exploring the actual code and logic involved with developing a web-based application based on the Joomla! platform as the underlying framework. Session will involve hands-on examples of actual code. Discussion of Joomla! p...

Sunday November 18, 10:00-11:00 in Room 5, by Jon Neubauer Case Study

As more and more organizations turn to Open Source technologies to power their online presence, one struggle that seems to recur is finding the balance between capability and usability in a CMS. With the Joomla! CMS situated as a powerful and robust platform for building an online presence, yet still maintaining a great level of usability and efficiency in day to day operations, many organizations are exploring their options when it comes to migrating to Joomla! to make life easier. During this...

Saturday November 17, 17:15-18:00 in Auditorium, by Kevinjohn Gallagher Keynote

(OR HOW I LEARNED TO ASK ‚"IS THE COOL THING THE RIGHT THING") Platform and technology agnostic where possible, and drawing on strong examples from Open Source projects, the presentation aims to show how we've moved from asking ‚ "Are we doing the right thing, or the newest/coolest thing?". Designed to kick-start conversations rather than consensus; I choose 10 slides from a deck of about 50, tailored to the conference and audience....

Friday November 16, 16:30-17:30 in Room 4, by Nuno Zimas Integrator

The aim of our session is to introduce Kajoo, a set of Joomla extensions which offer flexible interfaces to handle media assets stored on a Kaltura powered streaming server. The primary scope of Kajoo lies in the content distribution industry. As such, it largely extends Kaltura's data handling capabilities in order to address very specific needs professionals in this area are faced with. All crucial aspects of advanced video management are covered, from ingestion to broadcast, rights management...

Saturday November 17, 12:00-13:00 in Room 5, by Alice Grevet and Dianne Henning Community

The award-winning Joomla! Community Magazine makes Joomla unique in the world of Open Source CMS software. Readership has been growing steadily since its launch in July of 2010. It is a global effort that you can be a part of too. Authors from the community submit articles in many different languages. They include interviews with people doing amazing things with Joomla!, case studies, articles on how to be more successful in your J-based business, as well as articles on templates, development an...

Friday November 16, 11:15-12:15 in Room 1, by James Westley Foreman Community

The world of a Freelancer, Web Designer or Joomla Developer can be very complex and demanding no matter your level of experience with Joomla or business. It can also be an incredibly creative and expansive way of being involved in emerging technologies, and living a life as a successful business owner or entrepreneur. In this workshop we will explore how to be successful as a Freelancer or Small Business Owner and look at ways to structure your knowledge, and business acumen, into creating a un...

Saturday November 17, 14:45-15:45 in Room 5, by Paul Orwig Community

In this interactive discussion, we'll talk about why good governance is important in community driven open source projects such as ours, and we'll share some ideas about how we might be able to improve Joomla's governance....

Sunday November 18, 14:15-15:15 in Room 5, by Jonathan Hogan Case Study

Federation and Single Sign-on open the Joomla experience to a enterprises and social media. This presentation will demonstrate how one company in the real estate vertical market used Joomla as a portal to connect users to dozens of resources and tools via single sign-on. The presentation will also describe how Joomla can support multiple IDPs using Microsoft's Windows Identity Foundation including Google, Microsoft, OpeinID, a private IDP and ADFS. If you have ever wanted to move beyond the log...

Friday November 16, 15:00-16:00 in Room 2, by Alex Andreae Integrator

Your site is up! Now what? Learn how to integrate your site with social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter to maximize your exposure, start getting traffic, and be a part of the conversation for your users. Topics will include the benefits of single-sign on authentication with 'big' social sites, how best to publicize your site to your users (and their friends), and how to integrate social features directly into your site so your users can promote your content for you. The focus of t...

Sunday November 18, 14:15-15:15 in Room 2, by Peter Martin Integrator

Joomla is open source software. One of the benefits of open source software is that you can (and are allowed to) read and change the source code. It's very easy to make small changes in Joomla's core code. It's even easier to lose your changes by just upgrading! In this presentation Peter will show you why you should not use core hacks, some methods to change Joomla without using core hacks, and how to fix core hacks (done by other people)....

Saturday November 17, 09:45-10:45 in Room 5, by Mike Carson Community

This session is for all of you involved with Joomla User Groups (JUG’s) around the world and for those thinking about starting. During this session - or better an open discussion - you are all invited to share your success stories, ideas and suggestion with others. Let’s share our knowledge to get the best out of each JUG and inspire and support others to start as well. We don’t need to reinvent the wheel in each country after all! You will also be able to provide feedback to the Joomla ...

Friday November 16, 12:15-13:15 in Room 4, by Richard Kendall Cabe Integrator

One of the best things about Joomla is its ease of use and the ability of the user to edit their own content. Many developers and implementers sell Joomla to clients because the client can keep their sites updated on their own. The only problem is that client's don't know Joomla usually. How does a developer or implementer go about training their client's to use Joomla effectively? This session will teach the teachers how to train their client's on using Joomla. We'll cover the Ins and Outs of ...

Saturday November 17, 14:45-15:45 in Room 3, by Alan Langford Integrator

ACP started as a simple answer to a tedious problem: How do you manage a large number of similarly formatted articles combined with a client who wants to make frequent changes to how those articles appear on the site? There were templating solutions available to solve the first problem, but once the template was copied into an article, there was no way to change the template. ACP solves this problem by maintaining the template (which we call a pattern) independent of the data used to fill it in...

Saturday November 17, 12:00-13:00 in Room 4, by Victor Drover Integrator

In the last few years, a common discussion topic at Joomla conferences and user groups has been whether the CMS is enterprise-ready and if the project infrastructure is capable of managing enterprise-software. In this session Victor will discuss features of Joomla in the context of enterprise CMS software and see how Joomla compares. Immediately following, Victor will lead a focused discussion with the audience on the topic and their experiences with enterprise implementations with Joomla....

Sunday November 18, 15:15-16:15 in Room 1, by Edwin Cheront Integrator

“Jms Multi Sites” woks like apache or IIS or other HTTP Servers. It allows displaying specific website content depending on domains, sub domains or subdirectories of a domain but also allows displaying specific websites content depending on the customer's geo-localization or browser feature such as device detection (mobile, ...) and accepted browser language like the search engines are doing today. This session presents the concept of “Jms Multi Sites” based on the sharing with the obje...

Friday November 16, 11:15-12:15 in Room 2, by Helvecio da Silva Integrator

Despite being powerful and bringing greater value to Joomla 2.5.x, its ACL setup is still a big mistery for many out there. This presentattion will give a step-by-step guide on how to plan, create and configure an ACL in Joomla quickly....

Friday November 16, 10:15-11:00 in Auditorium, by Kyle Ledbetter & Mark Dexter Keynote

Joomla! 3.0 takes a big leap into the mobile space with a total overhaul of both its frontend design and administrator interface. With the adoption of the Bootstrap framework, Joomla! has become the first major CMS to be mobile ready in both the visitors and administrator areas. Now every website can have mobile friendly content for visitors and mobile friendly tools for administrators. Joomla administration has a brand new look and feel, built with the power of Bootstrap responsive framework, ...

Sunday November 18, 09:00-10:00 in Auditorium, by Parth Lawate Lightening Talks

Every other project executed in Joomla needs some kind of Payment integration. Techjoomla's Common Joomla Payments API evolved due to the need to reduce development time on Payment systems & also to reduce the code base & thus bugs. This API & common payment plugins are being used regularly by our services company Tekdi in several Joomla service projects. Techjoomla's own products SocialAds, JTicketing, Quick2Cart have been using this API for the past 3 months. Soon, JomGive will als...

Sunday November 18, 10:00-11:00 in Room 3, by Matthew Baylor Community

It's time for change. The future of the JED from management to end user, what can we improve to make it more user-friendly for developers, designers and end users? This session will outline some of the areas I am keen to see changed as well as offer an opportunity to voice your ideas/opinions....

Sunday November 18, 11:15-12:15 in Room 5, by Joomla Internationalization Working Team Community

The roadmap sessions want to bring the community into the process of helping to determine the direction of Joomla. As an Open Source project, what gets done in Joomla depends on volunteers stepping up to make things happen. It takes more than a willingness of the community to help, however. It also takes coordination between what the community wants to see done, what the community is willing and able to create and making sure that all of that will work with the overall vision of where the projec...

Friday November 16, 14:15-15:00 in Auditorium, by Louis Landry Keynote

From the first days of the Joomla project core developers envisioned the libraries that power the content management system being used to power other applications. Over the course of the last few years this idea has become a reality known as the Joomla Platform. In this new world many things have changed. The platform project has its own goals, processes, and release schedules. We will explore how this separation gives developers greater opportunity to solve long standing architectural problems...

Saturday November 17, 10:45-11:45 in Room 2, by Chad Windnagle Community

In this session, Joomla GSoC leaders Chad Windnagle will present a inside look at Joomla’s Google Summer of Code Program. Attendees will learn about the program, and be introduced to the seven Joomla GSoC Projects that were accomplished during Joomla’s participation throughout the summer of 2012. This presentation will highlight specific contributions made to the Joomla project in the form of Joomla Platform and CMS code, and the impact that these new features will have on the project, and ...

Friday November 16, 11:15-12:15 in Room 5, by Jonathan Gafill Case Study

Every year, thousands of alcohol-related offenders are mandated by local court systems to test their sobriety levels on a daily basis. Offenders have no choice but to commute (sometimes multiple times per day) to their local municipality or treatment center to take a sobriety test. In many cases the individual must be chaperoned by a friend or loved one since they no longer have the ability to drive. This has undue consequences on people that were not involved in the original offence, and impose...

Sunday November 18, 09:00-10:00 in Auditorium, by Yannick Gaultier Lightening Talks

Joomla! 1.6 introduced native multilingual support to the Joomla world, making it efficient, fast and future-proof to provide content and other items in several languages on your web site.Being able to achieve this without requiring complicated 3rd party extensions also made your content future-proof, allowing easy upgrade to new versions of Joomla! without being tied up to upgrade of those extensions. However, while it brings the builing blocks to the table, Joomla! native multilingual system ...

Sunday November 18, 11:15-12:15 in Room 3, by Eli Aschkenasy Integrator

Realistically how many visitors can my site handle? Do I have peak times where page-load times are problematic? If you're unable to answer these question, this session will shed some light on the potential performance of your application and give you tools to diagnose and boost the FRONT-END performance. Here are some things that we will touch on and discuss: Symptoms to look out for Benchmarking Techniques Tools available to diagnose issues; Improving client download and rendering performance;...

Friday November 16, 12:15-13:15 in Room 2, by Javier Gomez Developer

Would you like to know more about Joomla! programming? This session is totally focused for joomla designers and implementors that want to have a first look at how Joomla! works. During the presentation we are going to travel to the dark side of Joomla! and we will: - understand the folder structure and the files inside the CMS - modify the entry point and meet the three applications inside joomla: the frontend, the administrator and the installation. - play with the Joomla! urls - figure out ho...

Sunday November 18, 12:15-13:15 in Room 4, by Sarah Watz Integrator

Let's sit down and talk, compare and dream up new features and ways to use them together: - when is it best to use a Joomla Newsletter Component? - when is it best to use a web based service for sending out newsletters / emails and not a Joomla Component? Is it then recommended to use a bridge? When? Why? - what can newsletters can be used for? More than just for monthly newsletters? - is there a difference in the use of the Components when sending out newsletters and sending out emails? - what ...

Sunday November 18, 09:00-10:00 in Auditorium, by Keynote Keynote

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Friday November 16, 16:30-17:30 in Room 5, by Tito Alvarez Community

When technologies evolve, programmers each day feel more confortable writing more and more complicated code, which keeps requiring more CPU, more memory, more disk and especially more bandwidth. In first world countries there usually is not a problem providing and accessing the necessary bandwith, but what about third world countries, when standards are set to 1Mbps or even less? In this discussion, we want to cover techniques and approaches to make lighter Joomla websites, which can be accessi...

Sunday November 18, 10:00-11:00 in Room 1, by Marc Gaffan Integrator

This session is a combination of a Presenation and New Technology types of sessions, as it both includes an overview of security challanges for Joomla websites, and presents a new technology that can help deal with this challanges: Joomla developers are constantly being challenged with the notion of Joomla and other open source platforms not being secure enough. This is based on the fact that it’s a community sourced project and such projects have suffered from a history of vulnerabilities. Th...

Sunday November 18, 11:15-12:15 in Room 4, by Randy Carey Integrator

This presentation discusses and illustrates how to develop a tailored user experience for those who will be maintaining a Joomla! website and its content. The session includes: • A model for optimizing CMS usability without sacrificing the power of Joomla! • examples of remarkably easy-to-use interfaces for non-technical staff • six techniques for tailoring a simpler and more intuitive experience for our clients • advice on how to out-compete competitors in the area of CMS usability – ...

Sunday November 18, 12:15-13:15 in Room 5, by Alice Grevet and Paul Orwig Community

Joomla! is one of the most popular CMS choices available today. What if it also became the CMS that is trying to make the world a better place? We have the community, the skills, and the resources. We have a generous tradition of giving back. Come hear about how we can think bigger with Joomla!...

Sunday November 18, 09:00-10:00 in Auditorium, by TJ Baker Lightening Talks

One of the most easily overlooked ways of helping to keep your site(s) secure it by keeping Joomla and all of your installed extensions updated. Joomla's built in 'Update' function has been a valuable addition for end users, however, if you're the manager of multiple sites you might find the process of keeping everything up to date a bit cumbersome and time consuming. This lightening talk will take a look at the importance of keeping things up to date, while exploring a solution to help those ...