Launching Joomla! User Groups is something that I am only more than willing to help with. Last year JoeJoomla helped start the Joomla! User Group Toronto (JUGT). It's been steadily meeting monthly downtown Toronto mostly at Hemmingway's in Yorkville. You can see the events page for JUGT HERE. Now it's time to get something going west of Toronto and what a blast off the inaugural Joomla! User Group Southwestern Ontario meeting is going to be! With no less than FIVE speakers lined up for the meeting with yours truly moderating the evening.

The first meeting for JUGSWO will be held on Thursday October 8th from 710pm at the Personal Computer Museum in Brantford, Ontario. The speakers lined up for the meeting are:

• Greg Caughill of Picasso Fish Corporation, a leading edge solutions firm that provides solutions for web, print, software and design.


• Stacy Bradshaw of Annex Publishing & Printing who is a publisher of on-line magazines.


• Corrie Sloot of Picasso Fish who is a Joomla! developer and is also the primary contact for the new JUGSWO.


• Syd Bolton the curator of the Personal Computer Museum.


• JoeJoomla of joejoomla.com who also hangs out with the Joomla! project Bug Squad Team daily chats.

It should be a fun night with lots of Joomla! chatter, opinions, and rumours galore. Here's the official news release:

Inaugural Joomla! User Group – Southwestern Ontario
Learn About A Powerful Free Tool Used To Build Great Websites

Website owners rejoice! The first ever Joomla! User Group for Southwestern Ontario will be held on Thursday October 8th from 710pm at the Personal Computer Museum in Brantford, Ontario. Website operators who currently use or are planning to use Joomla! can learn more about the free website system, its pros and cons, and the experiences of website operators who use Joomla! Be the first to hear some exciting new research into how Joomla! is used. Experts will also be on hand to answer questions about Joomla! After the meeting a free tour of the Computer Museum will be held. This event is free to attend and will have refreshments!

Joomla! is an awardwinning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.
[ Citation http://www.joomla.org/aboutjoomla.html ]

Location:
Personal Computer Museum
13 Alma St.,
Brantford, Ontario
http://www.pcmuseum.ca

If you would like to register for the free user group meeting, call 5194268981.
If you'd like more information visit http://www.jugswo.com/