The Vancouver Joomla! community invites you to the first Joomla! Day Vancouver. The event is scheduled for Saturday, June 14th, 2008, from 9 AM to 5:30 PM, and will be held at the Vancouver Public Library in downtown Vancouver, beautiful British Columbia, Canada .

Joomla! developers and enthusiasts from the greater Vancouver area and all over the world will attend this important community driven and inspired event. Many are flying in for Joomla! Day Vancouver and the Sites and Infrastructure Working Group's general meeting scheduled the day before. This will be a great gathering of community members and a perfect opportunity to network with others.

The presenters and coordinators for Joomla! Day Vancouver include some of the original creators and maintainers of the Joomla! CMS framework:

Presenters:

• Brad Baker - Joomla! Core Team Member
• Chris Adams - CEO of Rochen Limited
• Levis Bisson - Joomla! Core Team Member
• Michelle Bisson - Joomla! Core Team Member
• Steve Burge - CEO of Alledia
• Louis Landry - Joomla! Core Team Member
• Jennifer Marriott - Joomla! Working Group Member
• Toni Marie Swats - Joomla! Working Group Member

• Wendy Robinson - Joomla! Forum Workgroup Member
• RMD Studio
• Jentekk Web Solutions
• Peer Globe Technology
• Tazzu Networking Community

Tickets are only $25 CAD if you register online or $30 CAD on the day of the event. This nominal price covers admission for an entire day of presentations and networking, a Joomla! Day T-shirt, coffee, tea, light snacks, and a chance at several great prizes.

Mark your calendars and plan to attend this exciting event:

The Date: June 14th 2008 from 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM

The Location: Alice McKay room at the Library Square Conference Centre in the Central Vancouver Public Library Building, 350 West Georgia Street in Vancouver, Beautiful British Columbia, Canada

Joomla! Days are for everyone, from the Joomla! beginner to the wise veteran of this award winning content management system. At Joomla! Day Vancouver you will have an excellent opportunity to meet members of the Joomla! Core Team and Working Groups and to discover ways to get more involved with the project and community. We are confident that attendees of Joomla! Day Vancouver will have a great time together and look forward to hearing about the success of this event.

The first Joomla! Day Philippines is scheduled for Saturday, June 14, 2008, to be held at the Engineering Library and Computer Science Building on the Diliman campus of the University of the Philippines in Quezon City, Philippines. The morning event is offered at no charge and does not require registration. Those interested in attending the afternoon event are encouraged to register soon before limited seats are sold out or the June 5 registration deadline passes.

Since knowledge in technology helps ensure a competitive edge in the 21st century, Joomla! Day Philippines is a great opportunity for Filipinos. Learning to take full advantage of this award-winning open source content management system can empower professionals and amateurs to build and administer feature-rich, powerful web sites without requiring programming experience. Attending Joomla! Day Philippines can help start building skills needed to make that happen.

Joomla! Day Philippines 2008 Agenda

Coordinators Jhondie Abenaza, aka Jdam, and Guilliam Roque, aka Guilliam, announced the agenda for Joomla! Day Philippines to include:

Morning Session The morning session is available at no charge, requires no advance registration.

• 8 AM - Registration
• 9 AM - Welcome Address
• 9:15 AM - Introduction of Speaker
• 9:20 AM - Keynote by Johan Janssens, Joomla! developer and former Core Team member
• 10:30 AM - Question and Answers
• 11 AM - Panel Discussion on Joomla! Experience with local Joomla! developers and experts
• 11:45 AM - Questions and Answers
• 12:00 noon - End of Morning Session

Afternoon Session Registration is required.

Joombie Section

• 1 PM - PHP and MySQL for the Lazy! - Clodelio Delfino, President PHPUGPH
• 2 PM - Introduction to Joomla! 1.5.x - Paul De Paula
• 3 PM - Local and Remote Joomla! Installation - Errole Guttierez
• 4 PM - Joomla! Templating for the Newbie

Developer Section

• 1 PM - Migrating to Joomla! 1.5.x - Israel D. Canasa (Raeldc)
• 2 PM - Extension for Joomla 1.5.x - Jhondie Abenaza (Jdam), Moderator Joomla! PH
• 3 PM - Copyright Issues/Creative Commons - Atty. Magdalena Lepiten and Guilliam Roque, Moderator Joomla! PH
• 4 PM - Joomla! 1.5 Application Layer - Johan Janssens, Joomla! developer and former Core Team member

Two days following the Philippine Independence Day, the Joomla! Filipino community will celebrate software freedom by attending the first-ever Joomla! Day Philippines. As others all around the world have found, Joomla! Day events are a great opportunity to learn how to use Joomla!, to network with other Joomla! users and developers, and to find ways to contribute to the project. We wish the Filipino Joomla! community the very best as they get together to celebrate Joomla!.

This event has been postponed until June 20-21, 2008. 

The South African Joomla! community is pleased to invite you to the first Joomla! Day South Africa - Durban, an event to be held May 9 and 10, 2008, at the Varsity College, Durban North. Durban is the third largest city in South Africa, a popular destination for tourists, and considered to be the busiest port in the African continent. It is an ideal location for those interested in Joomla! to gather.

Joomla! Days offer an excellent opportunity to learn, network with other Joomla! users and developers, and discover ways to contribute to the Joomla! project. The South African Joomla! community has been hard at work to ensure that this year's Joomla! Day events are at least as informative and fun as the three successful South African events held during 2007.

The Joomla! Day South Africa - Durban Agenda calls for two complete days of activities:

Day 1: Business Community Friday, May 9, is designed around the needs of the business community. Those who have roles like Web master, business decision maker, and marketing manager, will find helpful, relevant topics. The Business Community Day is a non-technical event focused on helping make the business case for using Joomla. If you want to determine whether or not Joomla is suitable for your business site, this is the session for you.

Day 2: User Community The agenda for Saturday, May 10, focuses on the Joomla! user community. This is a technical and business session, covering topics of interest for those who install and manage Web sites for themselves or for clients. Topics on this day will cover Web site security, migration, templating, extensions, hosting, and business strategies for Web site developers.

Joomla! Day South Africa events are run by the Joomla! Southern African Portal , a non-profit organisation. If you are interested and able to attend, register online. Your registration includes refreshments, a Joomla! T-shirt and an information packet. 

Joomla! Days are well attended worldwide. A key benefit of attendance is the opportunity to connect with hundreds of members of the Joomla! community, including speakers, designers, site builders, and developers. We wish the very best to our South African community members and hope all who attend enjoy Joomla! Day South Africa - Durban.