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Barcamp Bodensee 3 will be on Saturday June 9th and Sunday June 10th 2012 on the Campus of Zeppelin University at Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance. (We plan do a get together on Friday nite for those already present.) The event series (barcamps around lake Constance) has the tag #bcbs. The camp in 2012 has the tag #bcbs12

Barcamp Lake Constance is (besides Berlin) one of two international Barcamps in Germany.

That means that international visitors are explicitely welcome, that the organization language is English and that all sessions, where non-German speakers are present, are expected to be in English.

The idea is to bring the net and Barcamp crowds together on a European level - and beyond.

Former camps have been in 2008 and 2010 in Friedrichshafen (which has an airport) and Constance (which is easily reachable by train from Zurich Airport). Up to now we had barcampers from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, France and Serbia. We are looking to expand this range.

The historical backdrop for the idea to create such a camp in this location is that Lake Constance was a European center in the Middle ages. (Council of Constance, 1414-18 and Reichenau Island)

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Constance
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichenau_Island

So: let's geek

Cleveland, OH, January 25, 2012

"Joomla! 1.7: Beginner's Guide" and "Joomla! Development: A Beginner's Guide" has been nominated for a 2012 Small Business Book Award in the category of Technology.

Joomla! 1.7 Beginner's Guide	Joomla! Development - A Beginner's Guide

The Small Business Book Awards recognize business books that were published in 2011. Small business owners often seek advice and information through books. While there are many thousands of books published each year, it's those of interest to small businesses and entrepreneurs that the Small Business Book Awards seek to honor.

"With so many books being published each year, we wanted to recognize those that made a difference to small business owners and managers and startup entrepreneurs," said Ivana Taylor, Book Editor at Small Business Trends, which produces the Awards. "Our annual Small Business Book Awards are a way to highlight the books that entrepreneurs are reading and learning from."

The Awards are an honor to the authors who write books for the small business and entrepreneurial community. Says Anita Campbell, CEO of Small Business Trends, "For many of the authors, writing a book is a labor of love. Often they get up early in the morning before the rest of the family awakes, and they devote their evenings, weekends, holidays and vacations to writing. They deserve recognition."

Ok, to understand my thoughts you have to spend a bit time, follow the links and watch the videos and sources I linked to (or may be not, if you know them all).
I know it's complicate and it takes time, but the world isn't that easy :)

Step by step

• January 18th
  The whole world protested against a law in the US (SOPA/PIPA).
• January 19th 10am:
  Apple held an event about spreading iPads in schools (Video).
  Concerning the iPad platform, have a look at that video Cory Doctorow: The coming war on general computation [28C3] (from Dec. 2011)
• January 19th 11pm:
  I read that the Police in New Zealand arrested Kim Dotcom (Schmitz), Bram van der Kolk, Finn Batato and Mathias Ortman and shut down the servers of their company megaupload (Press Release FBI: Justice Department Charges Leaders of Megaupload with Widespread Online Copyright Infringement).

Cybercrime expert Mikko Hypponen talks us through three types of online attack on our privacy and data -- and only two are considered crimes.

What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto -- a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume.

We are pleased to announce that the most read Joomla! 1.7 book is now available in Russian and, of course, as a free pdf.

The book is available in various formats. You have the choice between

• the free HTML version online.
• the free pdf - Руководство для начинающего пользователя Joomla! 1.7.
• a printed paperback book for 15 €
• an EPUB version for 6.99 €

It is still possible to advertise and in that way to fund the creators and co-workers of the book.

The book has been translated by Alexey Baskinov (joomru).

Props to him for his big efforts and work!

We are pleased to announce that the most read Joomla! 1.7 book is now available in Danish and, of course, as a free pdf.

The book is available in various formats. You have the choice between

• the free HTML version online.
• the free pdf - Joomla! 1.7 - Begynder Guide

• a printed paperback book for 15 €

• an EPUB version for 6.99 €

It is still possible to advertise and in that way to fund the creators and co-workers of the book.

The book has been translated by Rikke Alrø (redWEB) and proof readed by Ole Bang Ottosen.

Props to both for their big efforts and work!

We are pleased to announce that the most read Joomla! 1.7 book is now available in Spanish and, of course, as a free pdf.

The book is available in various formats. You have the choice between

• the free HTML version online.
• the free pdf - Joomla! 1.7 - Guía para Principiantes

• a printed paperback book for 15 €

• an EPUB version for 6.99 €
• ES amazon.es Kindle Edition
• US amazon.com Kindle Edition
• DE amazon.de Kindle Edition
• FR amazon.fr Kindle Edition
• IT amazon.it Kindle Edition
• UK amazon.co.uk Kindle Edition

It is still possible to advertise and in that way to fund the creators and co-workers of the book.

The book has been translated by Isidro Baquero (gnumla).

Props to him for his big efforts and work!

Yesterday I thought it would be a good idea to offer a possibility to embed links to our free books on other websites than ours.

I played around with webservices and embedded code, but the results were all to complicate to handle.

So the next idea was to write a Joomla! module which is easy to install and works out of the box.

The module shows the cover, the download link and the visitors can download the PDF without leaving your website! The counter show the sum of all downloads.

You can see a demonstration on http://joomla17.cocoate.com.

The module works with Joomla! 1.6 and 1.7 and while I'm writing this blogpost I'm afraid I have to adapt it to Joomla! 1.5 too :)

In the administration of the module it is possible to choose