Le blog de Hagen Graf

Once a year JandBeyond, the international Joomla conference is held in Europe. This time, the venue was, again, the Dolce Hotel in Bad Nauheim, Germany. Elvis Presley lived in Bad Nauheim during his time with the United States Army in Friedberg. 

My initial plan was to meet with Christine (my beloved wife :) ) at JandBeyond, attend the event and drive home together with her. The days before she was in Germany and I was in Switzerland. She prepared the session "Peace, Love and Leadership" and worked the weeks before the event together with the responsible working group on a Proposal for a new Joomla project structure (Discuss the proposal here). She was asked to attend the leadership meeting after the event. Unfortunately it was not possible for her to attend because of some trouble making a decision on behalf of the leadership team so she finally quit her participation.

If you attended jab12 too, please be so kind and add your preferred social media accounts in this Google doc and please post your links to photos in this Google doc.

And now - my story :)

I arrived Friday morning and as part of the video team I had to record sessions.

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.

The frontpage of cocoate was in the past a mixture of different languages.

Today I separated the content of the frontpage depending of the language you have configured with the language switcher.

The default language of cocoate is English. If your browser is tied to a special language these language should appear as default for you. E.g. if your default browser language setting is French, the French cocoate frontpage should appear.

We have a possibility to set a content "Language neutral". It will be shown in each language like this blog entry.

A lot of the old content is still "language neutral". I will change that in the next days.

Découvrez la bande annonce vidéo pour le Joomladay 2012.

A travers conférences et ateliers thématiques, découvrez le cms Joomla! et ses nombreuses extensions, lors des deux journées de rencontre du Joomladay qui auront lieu le samedi 24 et le dimanche 25 mars à Strasbourg - France.

Plus d'infos sur joomladay.fr

Enjoy

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).

Les déchets sont le point faible du nucléaire, son talon d’Achille, son pire cauchemar. Les populations en ont peur, les scientifiques ne trouvent pas de solution acceptable, les industriels tentent de nous rassurer et les politiques évitent le sujet. Mais, qu’en connaissons-nous exactement ? Comment les populations peuvent-elles avoir une vision claire d’un domaine couvert depuis toujours par le secret ?

France, Allemagne, Grande-Bretagne, États-Unis, Russie : cette enquête internationale scientifique et politique aborde le sujet tabou du nucléaire par sa zone la plus sombre. En partant à la quête de « la vérité sur les déchets », ce film a l’ambition de donner enfin à chacun les clefs pour comprendre des choix qui pèsent lourd dans l’avenir de l’humanité.

Le jeu CMS vient d'atteindre un autre niveau. Drupal 7 stable a été publié le 5 janvier, Joomla! 1.6 stable hier maintenant, le temps est venu pour le marketing et les parties.

De nouveau nous entendons des mots concernant ces deux systèmes comme "hautement évolutif", "mieux", "plus facile à appliquer", "plus vite", "retouché", ...tout simplement le mieux :)

• La communauté Drupal a célébré dans ces derniers jours 326 Drupal 7 parties dans 96 pays ((800 photos sur Flickr, Facebook)
• La communauté Joomla! fêtera entre le 14 et le 16 janvier. Si vous voulez faire une party aussi, inscrivez-la ici ou visitez la notre. N'oubliez pas de devenir fan release party.

Mais qu'est-ce qui se cache derrière tous ce babillage "party" et ce fracas de "marketing"?

Quelle semaine! A peine parti pour une semaine, luttant contre des tas de neige qu'il se passent des choses intéressantes. En plus, pour la première fois dans cette édition de ma colonne hebdomadaire droopress, il y a un titre (voir ci-dessus) et une "foire aux ragots" (voir ci-dessous)

Dernières news

WordPress a déjè présenté la mise jour "Version 3.02", d'après la bonne coutûme avec un Haïku.

Fixed on day zero
One-click update makes you safe
This used to be hard

De son contenu, la mise a jour répare 9 erreurs (d'ailleurs, il faut  juste un clique sur le bouton "mise à jour"). Vraisemblablement, les larmes de joie coulaient chez Drupal concernant le candidat de release de Drupal 7. Toutes mes félicitations de grand coeur! Chez Joomla! on vient d'éditer la plus récente magazine de communauté. Egalement ici, les haïkus font leur entrée.