Upcoming Event : Joomla 1.5 Bootcamp - London, UK

Together with Leadsure, Joomlatools is pleased to announce the UK's first Joomla Bootcamp. The Bootcamp will be held on the Thursday 11th of December at the Crosby Auditorium in London. This IBM location is well-known for being used in the film set for the James Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies", as the headquarters for the media mogul Eliott Carver.

Topics covered include exploration of the new Joomla framework, best practices and tips in developing and deploying sites, building effective SEO into your Joomla site, making sense of the Joomla extension universe, and designing accessible and beautiful sites.

LeadSure's John McCarthy will bring a business focus to the event with a presentation outlining the strengths and challenges open source applications provide for a service provider.

Other speakers are Johan Janssens (Joomla 1.5 Lead Architect), Laurens Vandeput of Joomlatools, David Rippon of the University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) and a special top secret guest!

Mailbag: Joomlatools and Nooku

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Submitted by Bryan on

Amit from Joomlatools contacted me to introduce me to their new company as well as their new product, Nooku.  The introduction is somewhat ironic given the fact that Johan already contacted me last Spring.  I have also had a link to Joomlatools' blogs in my Blogroll for a number of months!

However, it sounds like they're doing exciting stuff over at Joomlatools that should make quite a bit of the Joomla! community happy.  Nooku looks like a great product and the extension/framework should help Joomla! 1.5 users create multi-lingual websites more easily. I wish the best for Joomlatools.

The following is a copy of the email Amit sent to CMS Report.

Hello,

We wanted to introduce ourselves to you & the Joomla community.  We are a new company called Joomlatools, focused on building applications for Joomla users that want professional, extendable open source extensions.  All of our extensions will be built from the ground up with lots of user feedback, tried and tested by real customers and professionally written by folks who helped create Joomla!

Our team consists of both experienced Joomla developers (Johan Janssens - major contributor to Joomla 1.5, Mathias Verraes - major contributor to DOCman and Shayne Bartlett - major contributor to LETTERman) and other open source contributors (Laurens Vandeput - Eclipse, Joomla) and Amit Shah (co-founder and VP Business Development of OpenX).

Our first application is called Nooku and is focused on helping Joomla users create multi-lingual websites easily, with integrated user workflow and translation management.  Nooku fits seamlessly into Joomla 1.5 and is both an extension and a framework.  To fund the application development needed to create this extension we have invited members of the Joomla community to contribute funds to employ our team of developers.