Last year there had been about 20 Joomla!Days and other Joomla related events world wide. It was a very exciting year with a lot of people meeting all over the world. I like to thank all the organizers world wide for their contribution to the project and the intensive work they did. All I heard was that the events are great and the people love to attend them - this is really the best feedback you can get and shows the great work you did. Thank you!

And the events are still going on. 2009 has just started and already the first Joomla!Day will take place in Izmir, Turkey after that Melbourne, Australia will take place. For a longer term planing there are events scheduled in the Netherlands and United Kingdom. Specially in UK the registration is already open and you can get a special offer for early booking your tickets. The Joomla!Day in the UK will become an interesting event as many good speakers have already agreed to come. With your booking you can support the event and make it more easy that you can meet these people in real live. And you never know what happens if so many members of the working groups are on one spot at one time ;-).

The first expo we are going to visit this year will be the FOSDEM in Begium. Joomla has a stand on the exhibition and we will clearly look out to do some cute presentations. As this event is pretty close to the Development Coordinator summit you can be certain to get some of the very latest news about 1.6 during this event. Check out the forum and sent us a comment if you can join in.

Last but not least, we got the application for a Joomla!Day in Indonesia which is really great. We are still looking for Joomla!Days world wide as we like to bring Joomla also to your region. If you are interested in organizing an event or you just would like to see one please post a comment in the events forum. It is pretty likely that you will find someone near you that might help you with the event. And also the events team will support you in getting your local event organized. We have a good team of organizers which have already experience in their countries and can support you as well. Please sent your event suggest as a post in the forum and we will pick it up from there.