United they stand, gee took them long enough. Western Australian Food Industry Association of
Western Australia Inc. has launched with the free open source joomla platform for its portal
website . They join Dairy Australia, Refresh Group and many others to implement an open source content management system.

"formed to become the  peak body assisting the Western Australian industry to become more united in taking up the future challenges which it faces in a national and global market. The Association will help to shape a business environment that encourages the food and beverage industry to grow and remain profitable.

So one can conclude that Western Australian food and beverage industry looks all friendly from
the outside, but scratch the surface and you get nothing unlike what you find in the eastern
states. To discover the remarkable disunity and individualistic qualities has cost tax payers millions of
dollars. Once again I have experienced on first hand how backwards and laid back most
Western Australians businesses are, it is only when the going (future) looks tough and
uncertain that drives incentive to band together like the magnificent seven of the wild west.
 

I am hoping that aspiring entrepreneurs in Western Australia can see the emerging trend of
using open source platforms in business. It costs you nothing in terms of licensing fees etc., and
it allows you or your staff to invest in being trained and educated to maintain and deliver your website needs. Do not be fooled by sales pitches of yesteryear, this is a revolution that is sweeping the business world, are you going to discover in years ahead that your disunity and individualistic qualities are going to give your competitors the competitive advantage.

Can you spot the important keyword that is missing from the Food Industry

Association of Western Australia Inc. website?

It starts with "b" and I think the members would like to see their industry keyword included as well.

I guess it is another example of disunity and individualistic qualities. 

Food Industry Association WA Inc Founding "b" Members

ABBA Olive Oil
Accuweigh
Ambrosia Quality Foods Pty Ltd
Anchor Foods - beverages
Aus Biolabgroup
Austrade
Austral Pacific
Azzura Gelati
Berri Ltd - beverages (Philippines owned)
Better Sprouts
Brendon Cant & Associates (Public Relations & Marketing)
Cannon Foods
Challenge Dairy Cooperative Pty Ltd - beverages dairy
Chemistry Centre (WA)
Coca-Cola Amatil (Aust) Pty Ltd- they keep an eye on everything
Comgroup Supplies Pty Ltd
Danish Patisserie
Department of Agriculture and Food WA
Department of Fisheries WA
Department of Industry and Resources (DOIR)
Derby Industries Pty Ltd
D'Orsogna
Fini Olives
Foodbank Western Australia
Fonterra Brands Australia (P&B) Pty Ltd - Peters & Brownes Foods- beverages dairy
Food Matters Consulting Pty Ltd
Golden Egg Farms
Goodman Fielder Foodservices
GSF Australia
Harvey Fresh -beverages
Homestyle Vegetable Processors Pty Ltd
Hunsa Smallgoods
Inghams Enterprises Pty Ltd
Ingredient Solutions Australia - beverage ingredients
Kailis Bros Pty Ltd
Kailis & France Foods Pty Ltd
Kailis Organic Olive Groves Ltd
Magnum Essence - beverage ingredients
Manassen Foods Australia Pty Ltd
Margaret River Beverage Products - beverages
MBL Food Services
Microserve Laboratory
Morish Nuts
National Foods (WA) Limited
Normandie Foods
Ogilvie & Co. Fine Food Merchants
Olea Nursery
Pacco Group
Premier Exports Pty Ltd
Sanav (Aust) Pty Ltd
Sinclair Wines - beverages
Sophisticake
Swan Consulting
The Toffee Factory / A Bit On The Side
VIP Freight Pty Ltd
WA Wine Industry Association - beverages
Walkers Candy Company
Watsonia (H.O.)
Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc. (WAFIC)
Western Potatoes Limited

Joomla inline preview of FIAOWA Inc. webpage (date: Thursday November 08, 2007)

<title>Food Industry Association of Western Australia Inc - Home</title> <meta name="description" content="FIAWA - Food Industry Association of Western Australia

Inc." /> <meta name="keywords" content="Food, Industry, Western Australia" /> <meta name="Generator" content="Joomla! - Copyright (C) 2005 - 2007 Open Source Matters.

All rights reserved." /> <meta name="robots" content="index, follow" /> <link rel='StyleSheet' xhref='http://foodindustry.org.au/components/com_gmaps/css/gmaps.css'

type='text/css' /> <base xhref="http://foodindustry.org.au/" />

Food Industry Association of Western Australia Inc - Home

Our new chinese* speaking Prime Minister in waiting is using the joomla* open source content management system platform for the kevin07 online election campaign.

So if you are impressed with the website and think it costs the equivalent of the Australian foreign debt ($450 billion and rising), then you will be surprised to learn the true value as it costs the equivalent of John Howards and Peter Costellos friendship, $0.00 or the federal government debt $0.00.

It is FREE, like a politicians broken promise or bitch about someone in parliament where you are FREE from civil defamation.

I was so excited but not convinced that the labour party was consious of using the open source revolution solution that I fired off an email to Mr Rudd and Stephen Conroy asking them to outline the labour party policy on using open source software, read the email to get the jist at what I am getting at, I doubt I will get a response because us Australians are slow retards, like i said before we have broadband as fast as a donkey, an economy with a glass jaw and a "she will be alright mentality" that will land us in hot water one day.

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Please support the Free Open Source Community in Australia, I see that the labour party organisation is using the joomla content management open source software for the Kevin07 website, so what policies does the labour party have to tap into this resource and movement that is revolutionisng the world?

Technological change is creating a social divide between the information rich and the information poor.

A national open source network will provide equality of opportunity for all Australians.

The public policy implications of technological change include ensuring that every Australian has the education they need to be able to use the new information technologies (open source anyone????)

We must ensure that all Australians have access to open source software and development, regardless of where they live.

Can anyone assure me that the Labour party has a policy for the open source revolution that is sweeping the world? 

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Meta data:

<head>

<title>Your Team&nbsp;-&nbsp;KEVIN07</title> <meta name="title" content="Your Team" />

<meta name="author" content="Matt Stow" /> <meta name="description" content="KEVIN07

snapshots Kevin Rudd's vision for Australia., A profile of Kevin Rudd, leader of the Labor party"

/>

<meta name="keywords" content="ALP,Kevin07,07,Kevin,Rudd,Australian,Labor,Party, kevin,07,

rudd,labor,leader,alp" /> <meta name="Generator" content="Joomla! - Copyright (C) 2005 -

2006 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved." />

<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />

*Joomla! is a free, open source content publishing system designed for quickly creating highly interactive multi-language Web sites, online communities, media portals, blogs and ecommerce applications. Joomla! provides an easy-to-use graphical user interface that simplifies the management and publishing of large volumes of content including HTML, documents, and rich media. Joomla! is used by organizations of all sizes for Public Websites, Intranets and Extranets and is supported by a community of thousands of users. With fully documented library of developer resources, Joomla! allows the customization of every aspect of a Website including presentation, layout, administration and rapid integration with third-party applications.

Further information at: http://www.joomla.org

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Notepad++ is a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment. I love it and highly recommend giving it go!

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Supported languages :

   
If you have a colour printer, print your source code (or whatever you want) in colour.

User Defined Syntax Highlighting
   
It allows user to define his own language : not only the syntax highlighting keywords, but also the syntax folding keywords, comment keywords and the operators. ( screenshot1, screenshot2, screenshot3, screenshot4 ).
   

Auto-completion
   
For most supported languages, user can make his/her own API list (or download the api files from dowload section). Once the api file is ready, type Ctrl+Space to launch this action (see screenshot). For more information about Auto-completion, please see Auto-completion HOWTO.
 

Multi-Document
   
You can edit several documents at the same time.
   

Multi-View
   
You have two views at same time. That means you can visualize (edit) 2 different documents at the same time (screenshot). You can visualize (edit) in the 2 views one document at 2 different positions as well. The modification of document in one view will carry out in another view (i.e. you modify the SAME document when you are in clone mode, see screenshot).
   

Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
   
You can search and replace one string in the document by using the regular expression.
   

Full Drag ‘N’ Drop supported
   
You can open a document by drag & drop. You can also move your document from a position (or even a view) to another by drag & drop.
   

Dynamic position of Views
   
The user can set the position of the views dynamically (only in 2 views mode : the splitter can be set in horizontal or in vertical), see screenshot.
   

File Status Auto-detection
   
If you modify or delete a file which opened in Notepad++, you will be notified to update your document (reload the file or remove the file).
   

Zoom in and zoom out
   
That’s another fantastic function of Scintilla component. Just see screenshot.
   

Multi-Language environment supported
   
The Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Hebrew Windows environments are supported. See Notepad++ under the Chinese Windows , under the Arabic Windows and under the Hebrew Windows in action screenshot.
   

Bookmark
   
User can just click on the bookmark margin (located right side of line number margin) or type Ctrl+F2 to toggle a book mark. To reach the bookmark, type just F2 (Next bookmark) or Shift+F2 (Previous bookmark). To clear all bookmarks, click the Menu Search->Clear All bookmarks. See screenshot.
   

Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
   
When the caret stay beside of one of those symbol { } [ ] ( ) , the symbol beside of caret and its symmetric opposite symbol will be highlighted, as well as the indent guideline (if any) in order to locate the block more easily. See screenshot1, screenshot2 .
   

Macro recording and playback

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Fast, resource friendly, good navigation functionality in full-screen mode, lot of image editing features.

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Faststone Image Viewer works very well for me. I especially like the work that can be performed from the full screen mode with all of the tools and info just an edge away. I can use it for both my picture collections as well as working with individual files such as the pics for this review.

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