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Jeff, you are welcome.  Our company is long overdue in returning something back to the community.  We are planning future releases some GNU/GPL and others licensed. Your point of building in editing features from the front end is one the team has struggled with for a while.  We have n...

With your encouragement, mamboSchools has released their School Lunch Menu Component to the Joomla/mambo Communities.  It is released under the GNU/GPL license. Basic information may be found here:

mamboSchools Lunch Menu Component

There is a lunch menu component at the mamboSchools site. It hasn't been released as a standalone component, but might give you some ideas.

Hello there hud, I was just wondering whats your progress in using SMF. Currently I have installed SMF 1.0.7 in my server, but the problem is I got stuck with implementing it into Joomla. Maxilla, sorry for the delay.  Busy with life and business   I haven't had time to integrate SMF into...

Thanks, my pleasure.  I am planning on installing the Simple Machines Forum integration this week.  Their website looks very professional and the community support is top notch.

I will let you know how it goes.

⋅ 4. Provide a forum - hmm, I know something about forums.. and I'm planning to use vBulletin or phpBB, but the problem is about the bridge, for vBulletin I found that the component is no longer active in the extension section in Joomla and phpBB.. not sure about that part. I have no prob...

⋅ 3. Provide a media gallery for students to view - Since one of my school's club got a photography club, I'm planning to make an easy interface for the photography club to upload pictures and 'kinda' sell them to other students who want to buy them. I'm thinking of using Gallery2 (and us...

⋅ 2. Providing individual Club webpages - Club webpage will be easy and require less html knowledge to build by them, and mainly cater news and information. I'm planning to use Wordpress since it provide easy text authoring and text content managing, also adding users (club members) to ha...

⋅ 2. Providing individual Club webpages - The school website will be catering Club's webspages inside a main website. I need a feature or way for Club owner can build a customise webpage so suit their need. Rather than myself, website admin, building individual for each club. Club webpage...

⋅ 1. Supply information -  I would also like to have an event calender in the front page of the website. Need suggestion on that. An events calendar for joomla/mambo installations is a tough call.  In the day, the standard was Events 1.2 .  Written by Eric Lamette/module by...

⋅ 1. Supply information -  The information are accessed by students and are supplied by certain students such as Club owners, or students who wants to post something on the website such as birthday news, lost & found etc. In other words, setup and interface where these people can use...

Yes, this is the SIF site.  It is quite pricey to get the SIF stamp and I swim in their specs, but we feel it is an important stamp that would enable our project to continue growing.


Busy, yes.  Stressed, I gave it up on my way to middle age.  Famous person, hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I am located in Lafayette, Indiana and have experience with Joomla.  Have several ideas for specialized church components to share. 

How can I help?  You can email or continue thread.

Amy - Wow.  Great link.  Thanks very much.  A wealth of information and thought is here. There is so much work to be done on the integration of CMS with student data systems.  All school districts in my area have multiple data system vendors.  However the SIF compatibility i...

We haven't worked on integration only external linking.  It is on our list for later.  Here are some resources. moodle - mambo integration:  http://download.moodle.org/modules/integrations.php discussion:  http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=20080 Search both mambo/joomla f...

My company has been working with schools for the past two years implementing a CMS solution using mambo OS as a base.  We are releasing our school product for Joomla in a few months. We always meet with the school as part of our normal sales activity to introduce the solution and encourage them...

Can you explain what your vision for an "Online School Supply Purchasing" component?

Thanks

I would be happy to assist anyone on development of a school based Joomla website.  I was a former technology coordinator for a school district in Indiana, USA. We have created a mambo-based turnkey school website for public schools and are currently porting everything to Joomla. I commend the ...