Last month The Joomla! Project issued two Requests for proposals. One is for major events and one is for management of the demo site. We are happy to report that a number of promising preliminary proposals for major events and proposals for managing the demo site were submitted.

For major events preliminary expressions of interest were received from 7 groups (in alphabetical order):

• Battle Creek, MI, USA
• Chicago, IL USA
• Florence, Venice, Bologna, Italy
• Melbourne, Australia
• Palma de Mallorca, Spain
• São Paulo, Brasil
• Toledo, Spain

The teams are now discussing their proposals in the events forum and on a public readable mailing list. Each group has been asked to start its own thread in the forum and there is also a thread for general discussion of major events. Let's hear your ideas and let them influence how these events are designed. Full proposals are due 3 January 2010.

For the demo site, four proposals were received. These are from (in alphabetical order) CloudAccess.net, GoDaddy, SiteGround, and WebHostingBuzz. They are being reviewed now.