Joomla! Events

Joomla! Developer Conference

elin.waring@opensourcematters.org (Elin Waring ) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:09:02 +0000

The first ever Joomla! Developer Conference will be on December 5 and 6 in New York City. Joomla developers who distribute extensions, build custom solutions or develop in house will learn about 1.6 development and learn from each other and core developers. Among those presenting will be Louis Landry, Andrew Eddie, Ian Mclennnon, Hannes Papenburg and Aaron Newton (from the Mootools team). Registration for the conference is now open.

The conference will take place at Faculty House at Columbia University. Tickets will be $100 and seats are limited. Plans are to stream and record the presentations, please watch for more details on how to access the stream.

In addition to access control lists, nested categories, comments and a new forms library Joomla 1.6 features an MVC administrator and removes support for 1.0 legacy functions and PHP below 5.2. The conference will give third party developers the information they need to make the transition smoothly and to access the power offered by these new features.

Joomla! on FOSDEM 2009, Brussels, Belgium

alex.kempkens@joomla.org (Alex Kempkens) — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:00:00 +0000

This February, the Open Source world will once again meet in the nice city of Brussels, Belgium. In the past 7 years many people have met, at the free and open conference to talk about the developments in this area of software development. At the first big Open Source conference in 2009, the Joomla project will present the latest developments and information about the project. Together, with a really high profile list of other open source projects, we have a booth in the exhibition area. On Saturday and Sunday, a team from the European Community will be at the booth to answer your questions.

Joomla!Day Vietnam 2009

ryan.ozimek@opensourcematters.org (Ryan Ozimek) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000

On November 1, 2009, the Joomla! community in Vietnam will be coming together for another wonderful Joomla!Day event in Hồ Chí Minh City! This event is free for the entire community, all you need to do is register in advance through our contact form (please include your your name, email and phone number). Learn more below about this free event!

Visit Thailand Internet Expo 2009, featuring Joomla!

Akarawuth.Tamrareang@community.joomla.org (Akarawuth Tamrareang) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:23:06 +0000

Thailand Internet Expo 2009, which will be held from Friday, January, 30th 2009 until Sunday, February 1st 2009 at the Royal Siam Paragon rooms 1 - 3, on Floor 5, in the Siam Paragon Shopping Center. Our theme is,“ Thailand's 1st Ultimate Internet & Technology Market Place”. The location will serve as a venue for major internet providers in Thailand to present almost 100 showcases"

Joomla!Day Gauteng 2009

ryan.ozimek@opensourcematters.org (Ryan Ozimek) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The Joomla! community will be gathering in Pretoria, Gauteng on 8, 9 & 10 October 2009 for another exciting and interesting Joomla! Day. The balanced programme will include topics suitable for new/potential Joomla! users through to experienced Joomla! web site developers.

The Questions & Answers sessions are particularly fruitful - tap into the wealth of knowledge in participants heads! Come and find out why Joomla! 1.5.x has been downloaded over 5 million times and is one of the leading content management systems worldwide.

The event will be hosted at the National IT Park, sponsored by the Government of Mongolia, and free of charge. Already many business leaders, IT professionals, and government workers will be in attendance. Learn more below about this free event!

Joomla!Day Hungary 2009

ryan.ozimek@opensourcematters.org (Ryan Ozimek) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

It's already a tradition, that on the second Saturday of October the Hungarian Joomla! users come together on their Joomla!Day, or Joomla!Nap in Hungarian. This year it will take place on October 10, from 10.00 am CET to 5.00 pm CET in Hungary, organized by Joomla! User Association Hungary (JUAH). The last year venue worked well, so we decided to return to CEU Conference Center, Budapest.

Joomla!Day Mongolia 2009

ryan.ozimek@opensourcematters.org (Ryan Ozimek) — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

There are many times when one can't help but be impressed by the Joomla! spirit. On September 29-30, 2009, the great people in the Mongolian Joomla! community will be celebrating their Joomla! pride with their first annual Joomla!Day Mongolia. One of the most impressive announcements forthcoming at this Joomla!Day: the showcase of the more than 200 Mongolian government Web sites that have switched successfully to Joomla! Nearly every Mongolian federal government Web site is now running Joomla!

With a huge accomplishment like this, it's time to celebrate!

After two years of hard work, the Cabinet Secretariat of the Government of Mongolia, the Information, Communication Technology and Post Authority, and USAID’s Economic Policy Reform and Competitiveness Project are pleased to present their success at Joomla!Day Mongolia.

Sydney Joomla!Day Oct 17+18 2009

joomladex@gmail.com (Dex Randall) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:29:35 +0000

Sydney JoomlaDay 2009 conference (Sat 17th Oct) and workshops (Sun 18th Oct)

Conference
This our third year and it's a HUGE one. We have a fantastic speaker line-up of Joomla core team, including Andrew Eddie, Sam Moffat and Brad Baker, and hand-picked industry experts, including Steve Burge of Alledia.com, working alongside inspiring presentations of real-life success stories from our local Joomla community.
Full Program here: http://sydney.joomladay.org.au/conference-program

Joomla!Day Spain 2009 Barcelona

ryan.ozimek@opensourcematters.org (Ryan Ozimek) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000

On December 11 & 12, 2009, we are preparing a weekend packed with presentations, workshops and catering for the entire Joomla community—from beginners to developers. All will occur at "Espai Jove de Gràcia" in Barcelona. Learn more and register online at http://www.joomladay.info.

What to expect?

Friday 11rd December: Joomla! training classes
On the day before the main Joomla!Day, there will be specialised training in issues such as: Beginners Joomla, Coding and Joomla!Framework, and Joomla! templates.
We have designed specific trainings to make sure that our attendees learn what they come to learn about.

Saturday 12th December: Joomla! Day Spain

Our Joomla!Day will follow the good practices of last year in the Joomla!Day Madrid. It will have: conferences and round table of best practices.

Why Barcelona?

Despite last year's success at Madrid'08, this year we would like to give the opportunity to another spanish city. After working on different possibilities, we concluded that this year is a fantastic moment for Barcelona: local community is big and very organised, and there are many people that wants to give a hand organising the event.

More info at: http://www.joomladay.info

Joomla!Day Germany 2009

alex.kempkens@joomla.org (Alex Kempkens) — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The third Joomla!Day in Germany will be held from the 24th Sept. 2009 to 26th Sept. 2009 in Bad Nauheim (near Frankfurt). Together with the Virtuemart team, we have put together an interesting range of workshops and presentations. The three days have different headlines:

Thursday, 24th Sept.: Virtuemart Day
Friday, 25th Sept.: Joomla! Business Day
Saturday, 26th Sept.: Joomla! Community Day

Some of the highlights we already have on the schedule:

Virtuemart Day:

Keynote: Soeren Eberhardt-Bierman (Head of the Virtuemart Project)
Virtuemart from A-Z workshop
First ever public presentation of Virtuemart 2.0
Customizing Virtuemart
Legal Issues (held by a Lawyer)
Virtuemart FAQ with VM-Experts
Case Studies – remarkable Virtuemart Shops

Joomla! Business Day:

Keynotes: Joomla-Business-Integration, Status Joomla 1.6
SEO optimization
Joomla! Accessible
Web Communities with Joomla!
Ecommerce with Joomla!
Template-Development
Multi-Language Websites
Case Study: Building an Event Data Portal for the Canton of Bern (in English)
Case Study: Goverment Webpages with Joomla!
Joomla! and Wikis
OpenSource / GPL, costs and risks with the licence
CRM: Joomla / SugarCRM / Virtuemart – putting it all together
Training: CCK (content construction kits) for Joomla!
Training: Extension Development for Joomla!

Joomla! Community Day (UnConference -Style)

Keynote:Joomla! 1.6
Joomla! Accessible
Ecommerce with Joomla!
Compare Joomla/Wordpress/Drupal
ACL in Joomla! 1.6
Multilanguage Websites
Joomla! Template-Development
… more to come!

The Speakers on the three days are well known members of the Joomla! / Virtuemart Community and experts in what they present:

Akarawuth Tamrareang (Google Summer of Code Admin), Alex Kempkens (Joomla Core Team, Joomfish Developer, Author), Angie Radtke (Author & Accessible Expert), André Grüter (CRBM AG), Anja Ebersbach (Author), Brian Teeman (Co-founder Joomla! and OpenSourceMatters Inc.), David Deutsch (AEC - Paid Membership), Dietrich Janzen (VM Remote), Fotis Evangelou (Joomlaworks), Geraint Edwards (JEvents Developer), Guido Schmidt (Gemeinde Brüggen), Hagen Graf (Author), Hannes Papenberg (Joomla! Development Working Group), Johan Janssens ((Co-founder Joomla! and principal architect Joomla! Framework), Martin Blasczyk (Author Virtuemart-Book), Radovan Kubani (Author), Robert Deutz (Author and Developer), Sabine Heukrodt-Bauer (Lawyer), Sören Eberhardt (Head of the Virtuemart Team), Thomas Kahl (Joomla Expert, VM-Expert.com, Virtuemart 2 Lead Developer), Tom Bohacek (Developer), Wilco Jansen

The ticket sale is open at www.joomladay.de. There you will also find updates to the schedule, speakers and presentations. We hope to meet you there! Also follow us on Twitter and incl. the tag #jd09de in your tweets :-).