The Joomla! Project is once again hosting a bug squashing day around the world. On December 10th, 2011, many coders, testers, and just regular users came together to help Joomla! test Joomla 2.5 before release in January. Lots of bugs were coded that day, the core patched and included in the new version. Many patches were tested by regular users and those patches included as well. For those without that much experience with testing or coding, much documentation was also updated. Even a group of folks in New England tested the new Beez mobile functionality.

On March 3rd, 2012, we'll be at it again with the next release of Joomla 2.5. We'll be coding, testing, and documenting again! This time around, we've got a sponsor - Taylor Bruce Design Partnership - that has agreed to host us at their offices. We'll gather together, help users get setup to test or work on documentation. 

We've got limited space for only 10 people, so please sign up early! We'd like to have more join as at Taylor Bruce, but if you can't make it there why not test at home? You can get setup for your home PC and we'll be live in a Skype chat both locally AND internationally with other Joomla groups testing at the same time.

If you want to register, click here or the link for "Joomla Pizza Bugs and Fun" in the upcoming meetings on the home page and register.

Please contact Kendall Cabe at kendall.cabe@timestwotechnology.com if you have questions or need more information.

Resources:

Announcement: http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1545-pizza-bugs-and-fun-march-3-2012.html

Joomla Docs: http://docs.joomla.org/Pizza_Bugs_and_Fun_March_3,_2012

To help get Joomla 2.5 ready for release in January, Joomla! is throwing a bug squashing party!!! On December 10th at 9am (in your time zone), groups from around the world will be joining on Skype and in local locations to work on bug squashing and testing of Joomla 2.5.

Here in Chicago, we do not have a local business sponsoring a site for us to meet and take part as a group. Joomla itself is offering Pizza to the local groups that are registered by Dec 10th.  If anyone is interested in hosting the bug squash, we can register with Joomla and get free pizza for those taking part. As of now, no one has tried to arrange anything for the Joomla Chicago group.

If we don't get a host, you can still take part. You can join me and many others virtually in the bug squashing chat on Skype. You have to be invited to the chat by the organizer. You should also take a look at what you need ready to go in order to do this event. There is some pre-setup that needs to happen for you to be able to help test the software.

If you have any questions, I'm going to be getting myself setup for doing testing and possibly trying to fix bugs as well.  I have one or two that I know I want to try to see if they are already fixed.

Come on and help Joomla get 2.5 ready for launch in January. Join me and many others at the Pizza, Bugs and Fun 2011 event!

More information can be found here: http://docs.joomla.org/Pizza_Bugs_and_Fun_2011

If you are interested in hosting, feel free to contact me as well. I can help to coordinate everything.