The Art of Joomla! (http://www.theartofjoomla.com/magazine.html) Magazine Issue 3 is now out. This issue covers Part 3 of how to take an extension out of legacy mode, looks at a file and folder diff application called DeltaWalker, and reviews some new minor features that have come out in recent Joomla! versions.

Byte Magazine Web Site : www.byte.com.tr Prepared by www.joomladersleri.com and www.joomlaokulu.net, both of which have been supporting to the Turkish users about Joomla content management system for a long time, fast use guide of joomla has been published in BYTE Plus Magazine. BYTE Plus, which is a considerable magazine in Turkey, gave place in all its content to joomla 1,5 as a May issue. Besides, Mehmet YAZICI (memoc@n) continue announcing of the name of joomla CMS for becoming widespread of joomla, component exposition and use. Byte Plus May issue content: Joomla 1.5 Usage Guide and Some Joomla Components DVD 0nfo: 521 Joomla free templates and 50 Joomla components

Today PeopleFriendly (http://www.peoplefriendly.net) has come to an agreement to takeover eGiex (http://www.egiex.com) (eGeeks) web design a small joomla design company in Seattle and Olympia Washington. They have taken over all of their clients and continue to build sites using the Joomla CMS as well as Drupal and OSCommerce. They have also taken over the seemingly static JoomlaEnvy.com (http://www.joomlaenvy.com) the free Joomla Template Club which stopped producing free templates in October of 2007. PeopleFriendly (http://www.peoplefriendly.net)’s mission is to get the site back up and running and once again to offer free Joomla Templates to the public and provide a viable Joomla Community resource for template building and custom Joomla Services. Right now PeopleFriendly (http://www.peoplefriendly.net) are seeking trusted volunteers to help manage the site. The duties that and skills that are needed will be published soon on JoomlaEnvy.com. (http://www.joomlaenvy.net) As of now we are currently working on updating the site so it is current and which includes: Updating the blog. Updating the Demo server. Updating contact information. Cleaning up the Forums. Creating a survey to enhance user experience. As for now email joomlaenvy your thoughts through joomlaenvy's contact page (http://www.joomlaenvy.com/contact/).

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church (http://www.gslcwi.com) in Madison, Wisconsin is proud to announce the availability of their new website powered by Joomla 1.5. The new website transformation took a dedicated volunteer team three months to move from the existing phpWebsite CMS to the current Joomla! CMS and is the first step in a very large undertaking of moving the Good Shepherd community toward a highly automated, technology focused environment.

Durban South Africa The South African Joomla! community is pleased to invite you to the first Durban Joomla! Day South Africa event on May 9 and 10, at Varsity College, Durban North. Joomla! Day is a great opportunity to learn, network with other Joomla! users and developers, and to discover ways you can contribute to the uptake of Joomla! in South Africa. Joomla! is an award-winning free open source content management system enabling webmasters and amateurs alike to build and administer feature-rich, powerful web sites without having to have an extensive knowledge of web programming languages. Joomla! is broadly deployed worldwide with more than 3.5 million downloads. In its first two months, the latest release (Joomla! 1.5) has already been downloaded over 200,000 times. There are nearly 3000 extensions to the system, covering virtually every feature one might need on a site. There are also thousands of free and commercial templates. The support forum is extremely active, with 180,000 members and over 1.2 million posts! Joomla! Days are well attended worldwide. A key benefit of attendance is the opportunity to connect with hundreds of members of the Joomla! community, speakers, Joomla! developers, and members of the Joomla! Southern African Portal. There will be ample opportunity for networking. The South African Joomla! community has been hard at work to ensure the 2008 Joomla! Day events are both informative and fun as they eagerly look forward to another year of successful conferences, following three events which were run in 2007.