Individual versus group needs and where do I fit in?

The Joomla Day New England was the second Joomla Day I attended and the first where I gave a presentation. It seems that I hit the nail with my topic as there were lively discussions during and after my session and I was asked to write everything down.

So here it is ;-)

I consult and coach different kind of companies regarding their organizational structure and guide them to develop and implement necessary changes. Doing this I use the methods of Transactional Analysis (TA), a psychological theory, based on psycho-analysis and psychotherapy.

It is used in counselling, organization development, education and psychotherapy. There is a set of models which helps to understand why we think, feel and act like we do, to trace behavioural patterns and ways of thinking, reflect on these and learn to develop alternatives, that will lead to a change of the everyday (working) life.

I am not directly involved in the Joomla project nor do I have strong relations to many members, I just got in contact with some of them and, from my outside standpoint, I was looking with my TA eyes at the visible processes of the Joomla project.

April 12th Christine and me attended the first Joomla!Day in Mashhad, Iran.

The JoomlaDay team around Saeed worked one year to make this event possible. Due to ongoing sanctions against Iran it was not possible for Open Source Matters to support the event with 500 US$ as they usually do for an official Joomla!Day. I announced the event personally in several chats, meetings and JoomlaDays (last time in New England) but people had concerns about the political situation and often fear to get involved in that. For our company cocoate which is based in France exists regulations too that make it impossible to support the event financially. At the end of the day we decided to have a look by ourselves, fly to Iran and attend the event.

First problem was to figure out how to get a visa. For getting a visa you need a confirmation of a hotel reservation with a price in. Especially in Mashhad the hotel staff speak Farsi and Arabic but very little English. Confirming a price longer than a few weeks/days is hard for them because of a rising inflation in the last months. At least we found the Bahram Hotel which is located near Iman Reza shrine and near the house where Ali Khamenei سید علی حسینی خامنهای  was born.

We had to add our names to a list of the German "Auswärtiges Amt" and they told us to be very careful, don't take personal computers, cameras and other equipment with us and several more security advices. It is not possible to use our credit cards in Iran so we had to bring in cash for the hotel and our expenses. The money has to be changed somewhere (be careful when carrying high amounts of cash in your pocket ...).

We got more and more unsure whether it was a good idea to go to Iran but the curiosity and the hope that people are nearly the same in the whole world was still bigger.

Con el lanzamiento de Joomla! 2.5, la comunidad de usuarios ha puesto un gran énfasis en hacer que la instalación del CMS y el proceso de gestión de cambios tan simple y directo como sea posible.

Esto permitirá a los usuarios migrar más fácilmente y con frecuencia a la última versión de Joomla!, Y aprovechar todas las ventajas de seguridad asociadas con el funcionamiento del nuevo código. Creemos que los usuarios Joomla! de todo el mundo realmente abracen este nuevo proceso.

Comience ahora mismo:

• Descargar Joomla 2.5
• Joomla 2.5 Anuncio de lanzamiento
• Nuevas características en Joomla! 2.5
• Joomla 2.5 Historial de cambios y detalles
• Actualizaciones fáciles

La notificación automática desde el core de Joomla! y sus extensiones, es una nueva característica integrada que simplifica el mantenimiento del sitio y la gestión de actualizaciones:

Nos complace anunciar que el libro más leído del proyecto Joomla! 1.7, ya está disponible en español y, por supuesto, en formato pdf versión gratuita.

El libro está disponible en varios formatos. Usted tiene la posibilidad de elegir entre:

• La versión HTML gratuita en línea.
• La Guía para Principantes en versión PDF gratuita.
• Un libro de bolsillo impreso por valor de 15 €.
• Una versión EPUB por valor de 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

Todavía es posible incluir su Aviso Publicitario en el libro, lo que ayudará a financiar a los creadores y colaboradores del mismo

El libro ha sido traducido por Isidro Baquero (gnumla).

Felicitaciones para él por su gran esfuerzo y trabajo!

Agradecimientos a Oscar Valbuena (osabuena) por la traducción de este artículo.