Joomla!Day Germany 2009

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 :-).