In the February Meetup, we will be having 2 presentations again.

The first presentation for the February meeting is about how to set up a web site using Joomla 1.5 or Wordpress 2.7.

The second presentation is very provocatively titled "How to Fail at Software Development"

First Presentation details:

Joomla is a very powerful CMS (Content Management System) that makes it easy to create a professional website for your business. It is free and open source, and there are many great looking templates available to make it look just the way you want it to with a minimum of effort.

Wordpress is best known as a blogging tool, but many people are using it for their business website as well. Wordpress 2.7 is the latest version, and has many features to make it very easy for even non technical people to set up and maintain their own web site.

In the presentation I (Richard Roberts) will attempt to set up and configure basic Joomla and Wordpress sites from scratch in less than 5 minutes each, and show how to customize them with templates and plugins.

Second Presentation Details:

"How to Fail at Software Development" will be a presentation about "lessons learned" while managing software projects.

This subject has come up in our past meetings, many of our members have faced the challenge of making a successful IT project happen when some of the factors go wrong beyond our control. Some of the common problems are scope creep, lack of a detailed specifications and other woes.

This topic will be presented by one of our most talented Meetup members, Ed Kuiters. He is a very experienced software developer, business owner and entrepreneur. This should be another lively and informative discussion at the Yokohama IT Business Meetup. Tell all your friends, this one should not be missed!

2:00 Greetings - Introductions

2:10 Presentation - Introduction to Joomla and Wordpress.

2:30 Presentation - How to Fail at Software Development

2:55 Feedback / Questions

3:00 Next meeting planning (request for speakers)

Informal networking 3:00 to 4:00