Mon 05 Oct 2009 |
Joomla!Day Mongolia a Great Success
Written by Ryan Ozimek
In great showing of success, the large auditorium in Ulan Bator's IT Park held a great crowd of Joomla! users from across the city for the first ever Joomla!Day Mongolia. With leadership of the day's events by Mr. T. Altansukh and the Mongolian translation team, this event had much great news to celebrate.
The day's events kicked off with a terrific guest speaker, B. Dolgor, Head of the Cabinet Secretariat for the Mongolian government. She reminded the room of an amazing statistic: nearly the entire Mongolian federal government is now running a Joomla Web site!
Later in the day, the Mongolian Joomla translation team was able to show off their 2 years of hard work, completely translating both the front-end and back-end of Joomla into Mongolian.
Check out the Joomla!Day Mongolia slideshow and an interview of me by a Mongolian television station!
Key to my goals for attending this event was to ensure that the Joomla project had a strong focus on expanding its efforts for outreach into the Mongolia, a vibrant community that's excited to take on new challenges in the technology and policy worlds with Joomla.
I'm happy to report that this goal was met and exceeded!
The Joomla!Day event itself included a variety of presenters and topics, including:
- Role of ICTA in providing low-cost Mongolian language IT solutions
- Role of EPRC/USAID and international cooperation
- Open Source software: Philosophy and licensing requirements
- Introduction of Joomla! 1.5 Mongolian language package
- Demonstration of websites and portals using Joomla! 1.5 Mongolian language package
- Joomla’s availability, licensing requirements, distribution, technical resources
- General discussion, questions and answers
On the second day of events, Mr. Altansukh lead a full room through a complete guided training of Joomla, utilizing their new Mongolian language package.
Many thanks to Mr. Altansukh and the rest of the Mongolian translation team, as well as to EPRC/USAID for their continued support of the Joomla project.
Check out the Joomla!Day Mongolia slideshow
I'm looking forward to seeing continued success in the Mongolian community, and I'm excited to share the lessons learned from the Mongolian on their huge success with the Mongolian Federal government.
2009-10-05 14:53:50
Go to the Guinness of Records
2009-10-07 06:44:19
Some here thinks using Joomla is not professional which I disagree. They think it is easy to be hacked. They do not realize that if it is hardened properly, then it is very safe against hackers. Such event must have silenced those who think of Joomla as something less than a professional level.
2009-10-08 09:13:37
I really have to say, that the possibilty of learning PHP and being a software developer is really really limited for the people in Mongolia. And Joomla is a darn good way to start off a website for any kind of person no matter how experienced you are. As Orgil said above, you really have learn the Joomla! and find your own ways to protect it from being hacked, or visit the Joomla! forums to learn more.
After all, I have to say most of Mongolian Websites use either Joomla! or Wordpress. Sad thing is, they don't use such plugins as jSecure etc to hide their backend at least. Some don't even use SEF. I hope from this event they have learned more about Joomla! and how they can secure it, and also expand it's possibilities!