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Brian Teeman

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May 28, 2007, 6:32:08 PM5/28/07
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I am sorry to announce that Joomla Weekly News is no more

It was fun whilst it lasted and I hope you enjoyed the read.It took a long time to put together each week but in the end I guess some people just didnt like it.

Brian

Richard Day

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May 28, 2007, 6:52:12 PM5/28/07
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Brian, I am sorry to hear that. I inly recently began reading the newsletter, bit found it both interesting and informative.

I wish you luck in whatever you choose to do next. If you ever have thoughts about writing a book, I publish in the US and Canada and can be contacted at: rd...@self-counsel.com

Rafa Jiménez

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May 28, 2007, 6:56:32 PM5/28/07
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Brian, thanks for each issue, for each article, for each word. I´ve learnt a lot from JWN (and not only about Joomla!).

Joanne Glasspoole

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May 28, 2007, 7:03:16 PM5/28/07
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I agree. I thought the newsletter was excellent. It's a shame it will no longer be published, and I understand the time and effort that went into each issue. Good luck, Brian!

george

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May 28, 2007, 8:57:48 PM5/28/07
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I'm very sorry.
It was very interesting, an excellent publication that I almost read with utmost interest.
 
George

 
2007/5/28, Richard Day <rich...@gmail.com>:

myfia

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May 28, 2007, 10:13:22 PM5/28/07
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Brian, I am sorry to hear that. I really enjoy read, and follow the news.

Regards from Indonesia.

Anrie

jasnu...@wetcat.net

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May 29, 2007, 2:14:53 AM5/29/07
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Brian,

Man... i look forward to the issue everyweek..
Am sorry to hear that i wont be continued..

regards,
Jasnurhadi
singapore

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Subject: Joomla! Weekly News Re: JWN is no more

Brian, I am sorry to hear that. I really enjoy read, and follow the news.

Regards from Indonesia.

Anrie


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Rose Bowen

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May 29, 2007, 3:01:06 AM5/29/07
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Brian, I'm so sorry to hear this!  I hope you weren't getting grief from people about the news... it was great while it lasted.
 
Rose Bowen
NRVDesigns.com
Having a great web presence doesn't have to be expensive!
http://www.nrvdesigns.com

Marco Giorgetti

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May 29, 2007, 4:06:42 AM5/29/07
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On 5/29/07, Rafa Jiménez <ibnh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Brian, thanks for each issue, for each article, for each word. I´ve learnt a
> lot from JWN (and not only about Joomla!).
I agree.
Regards from Italy.

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Titus Hanke

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May 29, 2007, 4:51:49 AM5/29/07
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The newsletter was great and I would be curious to understand why you will not publish it anymore.
It was a very nice format and very nice to read!
 
Titus from Germany/Italy

 

Netcruiser

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May 29, 2007, 6:15:18 AM5/29/07
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Hi Brian,
I can imagine it's a lot of work putting it together every week. I do
think it was a good format and liked to read it.

Thanks, Tom

webgobe

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May 29, 2007, 6:23:45 AM5/29/07
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Thank you for you great work allready done!
I was read it every issue since I discovered it, and even publicized
it on my site http://www.joomla-tips.org.
I will miss it, definitively!
Keep us updated if you will reconsider your decision or you will start
something similar'
Best'
Denes
aka webGobe
http://www.webgobe.ro

joomx

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May 29, 2007, 7:02:26 AM5/29/07
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Hello Brain,

personally i feel it is a shame to stop the JWN, because 'some people'
didnt like it.
Sometimes it should have no influence what 'some' people are thinking/
saying ... the way is the target.

Finally i think, your message sounds like it could happen due a
conflict with some commercial interests from someone/somewhere.
Sad, Joomla! goes more and more into that direction!

michael

Anne Dawson

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May 29, 2007, 9:51:22 AM5/29/07
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Brian

Thanks for all the hard work you put in to this. Good luck with your future projects!

Anne

Ivelina Mareva

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May 29, 2007, 11:06:18 AM5/29/07
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It was realy good stuff. I just don't understand!

2007/5/29, Anne Dawson <anne....@gmail.com>:

Christoph Lukes

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May 29, 2007, 9:01:51 PM5/29/07
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Sad to hear Brian,

I enjoyed to get informed about Joonla stuff you will not find at the
usual ressorces, but absolutely understandable you stopped this time
consuming job.

Brian Teeman schrieb:

rued

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May 30, 2007, 5:38:25 AM5/30/07
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We're all sorry for this Brian,

I have been reading theme all, and been looking forward to next
release every week.
If you, or someone else, in the future get the possibility and
inspiration to continue it would be many happy readers I think.

Thanks so far, and sorry for what ever happened to stop it.


Best regards
Rune Rasmussen
Finland / Norway

Mike Lloyd

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May 30, 2007, 6:57:51 AM5/30/07
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Hi All

I am considering the possibility of trying to fill the missing gap that is Joomla Weekly News.
I could probably get started in 2 weeks when my current client projects are finished.
I have some experience writing about Joomla as I wrote the Learn Joomla book (and am writing others)
I think it is difficult for one person to write everything in JWN, Brian did a fantastic job, but it must have been a huge strain writing and publishing JWN on his own.   I would prefer to act as editor and write about 50% if I could get other writers to contribute, in particular the extensions reviews etc.  Any Joomla bloggers/experts out there interested to volunteer as writers?

Brian - how would you feel about someone else picking up the baton?  If OK, would you be able to provide some insight into your research/writing process?  Is the existing copy published under Creative Commons?

If enough people are interested perhaps we could do a 'Phoenix' operation on JWN?

Cheers

Mike Lloyd
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Joomla! eBook, Hints & Tips             :: www.learnjoomla.co.uk

Rose Bowen

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May 30, 2007, 7:51:33 AM5/30/07
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I'm game.  I've built about 40 sites in the last two years with Joomla, and have worked with a lot of the components and extensions, learned some tweaks, etc.
 
Could I suggest, perhaps, that the "weekly" be put into more of an online format?  With this being an email list, having to locate and open a PDF file was just enough extra to make me put off reading the weekly (and this is not a criticism of Brian, who was doing an outstanding job and putting in boatloads of time on it... this is just my input as a user of the list and how things work well with me as a busy reader. I've always been frustrated with Acrobat Reader because it doesn't seem to want to completely shut down when I close it, leaving enough resources tangled up to bog things down.)
 
Rose Bowen
NRVDesigns.com
Having a great web presence doesn't have to be expensive!
http://www.nrvdesigns.com
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Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 6:57 AM
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Rafa Jiménez

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May 30, 2007, 7:57:04 AM5/30/07
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AFAI, brian selected the PDF format to avoid that. His intention was not to have another website devoted to Joomla! but a Joomla! Magazine. He tried to find a "neutral" solution. A website would not be so neutral and there are a lot of sites with Joomla! related news outside there, in the Joomlasphere.

Just my two cents.

Rose Bowen

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May 30, 2007, 8:06:44 AM5/30/07
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I didn't mean creating a website, I meant something that was embedded in email rather than something that had to be opened separately or downloaded elsewhere.  I would honestly love to get frequent email notices about new components and extensions and developments with Joomla all through the week as opposed to one weekly grouping to digest. 

Mike Lloyd

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May 30, 2007, 8:19:22 AM5/30/07
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My guess is that some people prefer PDF, some email, some RSS, and some like to read a website.  My personal preference, for what it's worth, is a short email 'highlights' newsletter with full info on a website (with a searchable archive), plus an RSS feed for daily updates.  But I recognise everyone is different.  I know Brian was keen that the  JWN could be read easily on a screen as  an ebook style  newspaper, and that format made it easy to quickly browse through the weeks news, although for me it was then difficult to go back and find an earlier article.

Is there some way that we could publish on all three platforms in an automated way using Joomla, a bit like Docbook allows tagged texts to be published for different formats?  Would the new PDF capabilities in Joomla 1.5 allow us to do something clever in automatically generating a formatted PDF edition weekly (which could be emailed)?

Incidentally I have access to a lot of bandwidth so emailing out PDFs would not be a problem.

Rgds

Mike
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Amy Stephen

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May 30, 2007, 8:35:25 AM5/30/07
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Now, that's the power of an open source community! Brian got the ball rolling and Mike and Rose and others can take it and improve it and continue things going! Way to go all of you!




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yair lahav

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May 30, 2007, 9:07:21 AM5/30/07
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I agree with Amy ...
And I am ready to join this effort ... anyway I am monitoring some of Joomla sites (extensions and others) ...

Yair
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Dean

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May 30, 2007, 11:47:30 PM5/30/07
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Just my 2-cents: The Joomla Weekly News is one of the best
publications for a quick summary of keeping up with the Joolma using
industry/community. There are over 10 new user groups being developed
that can use this publication as a guide for topics.

I'm certain with a little campaigning this publication will be a hit.
I really like the PDF bacause it prints well.

-Dean V


On 30 May, 06:07, "yair lahav" <yair.la...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree with Amy ...
> And I am ready to join this effort ... anyway I am monitoring some of Joomla
> sites (extensions and others) ...
>
> Yair
>

> On 5/30/07, Amy Stephen <amystep...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Now, that's the power of an open source community! Brian got the ball
> > rolling and Mike and Rose and others can take it and improve it and continue
> > things going! Way to go all of you!
>

> > > *From:* Rafa Jiménez <ibnhaf...@gmail.com>
> > > *To:* joomlawe...@googlegroups.com
> > > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 30, 2007 7:57 AM
> > > *Subject:* Joomla! Weekly News Re: JWN is no more


>
> > > AFAI, brian selected the PDF format to avoid that. His intention was
> > > not to have another website devoted to Joomla! but a Joomla! Magazine. He
> > > tried to find a "neutral" solution. A website would not be so neutral and
> > > there are a lot of sites with Joomla! related news outside there, in the
> > > Joomlasphere.
>
> > > Just my two cents.
>

> > > On 5/30/07, Rose Bowen <r...@rosebowen.com > wrote:
>
> > > > I'm game. I've built about 40 sites in the last two years with
> > > > Joomla, and have worked with a lot of the components and extensions, learned
> > > > some tweaks, etc.
>
> > > > Could I suggest, perhaps, that the "weekly" be put into more of an
> > > > online format? With this being an email list, having to locate and open a
> > > > PDF file was just enough extra to make me put off reading the weekly (and
> > > > this is not a criticism of Brian, who was doing an outstanding job and
> > > > putting in boatloads of time on it... this is just my input as a user of the
> > > > list and how things work well with me as a busy reader. I've always been
> > > > frustrated with Acrobat Reader because it doesn't seem to want to completely
> > > > shut down when I close it, leaving enough resources tangled up to bog things
> > > > down.)
>
> > > > Rose Bowen
> > > > NRVDesigns.com
> > > > Having a great web presence doesn't have to be expensive!
> > > >http://www.nrvdesigns.com
>
> > > > ----- Original Message -----

> > > > *From:* Mike Lloyd <mike.ll...@artonezero.com>
> > > > *To:* joomlawe...@googlegroups.com
> > > > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 30, 2007 6:57 AM
> > > > *Subject:* Joomla! Weekly News Re: JWN is no more


>
> > > > Hi All
>
> > > > I am considering the possibility of trying to fill the missing gap
> > > > that is Joomla Weekly News.
> > > > I could probably get started in 2 weeks when my current client
> > > > projects are finished.
> > > > I have some experience writing about Joomla as I wrote the Learn
> > > > Joomla book (and am writing others)
> > > > I think it is difficult for one person to write everything in JWN,
> > > > Brian did a fantastic job, but it must have been a huge strain writing and
> > > > publishing JWN on his own. I would prefer to act as editor and write about
> > > > 50% if I could get other writers to contribute, in particular the extensions
> > > > reviews etc. Any Joomla bloggers/experts out there interested to volunteer
> > > > as writers?
>

> > > > *Brian* - how would you feel about someone else picking up the baton?


> > > > If OK, would you be able to provide some insight into your research/writing
> > > > process? Is the existing copy published under Creative Commons?
>
> > > > If enough people are interested perhaps we could do a 'Phoenix'
> > > > operation on JWN?
>
> > > > Cheers
>
> > > > Mike Lloyd
>
> > > --
> > > Web design, Hosting & Online Publishing ::www.artonezero.com
>
> > > Joomla! eBook, Hints & Tips ::www.learnjoomla.co.uk
>
> > > Mike Lloyd
> > > Director
> > > Artonezero Limited
> > > 16 Manette Street
> > > London W1D 4AR
> > > United Kingdom
>

> > > T: +44 (0) 20 7183 0250 (9am-5pm M-F)
> > > F: +44 (0) 20 7099 4597
>
> > --
> > Amy Stephen
> > AmyStep...@gmail.com
>
> --
>
> Yair Lahav
> yair.la...@gmail.com
> +972 (54) 4346180- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Maish

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May 31, 2007, 4:52:55 AM5/31/07
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I would be happy to help out as well. I really like this product and
would like to give back to the community if possible.

> > > > T:+44 (0) 20 7183 0250(9am-5pm M-F)

inetis

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May 31, 2007, 4:57:20 AM5/31/07
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Sorry about this new. I liked to read Joomla Weekly News.
Tanks for all your work on this project

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