NIOUG news…

We had been struggling  alot to make the web face up and live since so many days. We have tested alot of things, accepted( and rejected) lots of ideas. We had a vision what we wanted to have in our web portal. It was very simple, we wanted a simple, yet sleek , unique design. About content, we already had it but we were not able to get the right kind of “front face” for it. 

This was “then”. 

Now, things have changed ( and for good). We are a big fan of Open Source mantra. There are many goodies developed under it. Joomla is one of those few goodies. Irony is that despite that we knew about it from a LONG time back but we still were not inclined to use it and were sort of trying to “reinvent the wheel”. Well, we have finally come back to our senses and now, as Amardeep mentioned, we have been joomalized. Yes, NIOUG is alive now at http://www.nioug.org. The best thing is that it did happen on a very holy day. I was lucky enough that I was in a program and I got a chance to share the idea with my students. They were very happy and excited listening about it. We have already got few members which are NIOUGians now. 

I got a chance to meet with president of another group also. I won’t mention at the moment who but this meeting was in our pipeline from a long time. It went well. Though it wasn’t a formal one as both of us met on breakfast table and had breakfast together but it was good. We have alot of ideas which we want to implement and as now our web face is up, we can focus now on those things more keenly. Let’s see how things shape up now.

Lastly,  I have been given the responsibility of being the front man of NIOUG, no not the spokesperson but the president of the group. So as president of NIOUG, I welcome you now officially here.  Take a look at our website and give us your feedback about it. 

Cheers

Aman….