For almost every community, the ability to meet and interact is often one of the most important ways that people share ideas and achieve their goals.

These meetings can be online using the plethora of tools available these days or they can be face-to-face meetings such as J and Beyond, the upcoming Joomla developer conference.

Critically, the ability to coordinate and promote these meetings and events can often mean the difference between a successful, growing community or an disconnected, stagnant one.

Thus, in both our volunteer work and professional projects, we generally recommend the use of a calendaring solution like JCal Pro® to facilitate group interactions.

We were very honored then when JCal Pro® was chosen by the Joomla project for the development of their most recent on-property resource — the new Joomla Events web site.

Today we are proud to announce the immediate availability of JCal Pro® 3.1.1 (build 563), which is fully compatible with Joomla! 2.5!

This is a maintenance and feature release.

This release includes fixes for various reported issues as well performance related improvements and language updates.

Besides the date and time, knowing the location of meeting, concert or even a flashmob is critical to the success of the event.

JCal Pro® has always included a Contact field where people could include location information for their events. However, this implementation was not always satisfactory.

For example, there was no way to store locations for quick access when creating new events. Thus, the same location had to be manually entered each time it was needed.

In addition, there was no way to display any geographic information about the events scheduled in a particular area.

That all changes with today’s release of JCal Pro®.

I am happy to announce that JCal Pro® 3.1 for Joomla 2.5 is currently available and ships with a robust location manager that overcomes prior limitations and adds exciting, new possibilities for event management and geolocation.

Today we are proud to announce the immediate availability of JCal Pro® 3.1.0 (build 442), which is fully compatible with Joomla! 2.5!

This is a maintenance and feature release.

Notes: This release is to fix issues including some related to migration, performance, module behavior and more as detailed in the changelog.

This version introduces the new Google Maps integrated Location Manager as well as a Media Manager for user uploads.

Today we are proud to announce the immediate availability of JCal Pro® 3.0.2 (build 73), which is fully compatible with Joomla! 2.5!

This is a maintenance release.

Notes: This release is to fix issues including some related to timezone settings, iCal imports, JCal Icon menu behavior, module behavior and more as detailed in the changelog.

In  addition this release also introduces a migration tool to import events from a JCal Pro® 2 generated database into a clean installation of Jcal Pro 3.