Let me share my newest discovery with you: go to Joomla Milwaukee and get signed up for their next meeting. I've been to two meetings so far and they've both been fabulous.

At yesterday's meeting there was a great, hands-on presentation by Tom Egan of Egan New Media about customization he did on a calendar module for a site he built for the Grand Prairie, TX, Air Hogs professional baseball team.

Dan Knauss of New Local Media provided an excellent overview of the planned Joomla 1.6. Key focus was on access control. (That's a presentation I'd love to see at our Chicago meeting!)

The level of discussion at Milwaukee Joomla meetings is really helpful: precise and practical, and edging on technical, but without being obscure.

One other interesting note: John Fischer, a member of the group, will be presenting a two-day program on "Joomla: Building Powerful Content Managment Systems and Onine Applications" at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) on April 30 and May 1. Tuition is :$525. See http://www4.uwm.edu/sce/course.cfm?id=17282 to register.

Once again, hats off to Victor Drover of Anything Digital and Gabriel Wahhab of Connexion Technologies for their leadership of this group.

Joe Scarry is head project manager for Chicago Joomla web developer and web design firm Arc Technology Group. Arc Technology is one of the sponsors of Joomla Milwaukee.