Joomla Meetings

In a couple of weeks there’s going to be an important Joomla Developer Conference in New York.

Starting with a social evening on the Friday 4th, the conference itself is a two-dayer over the weekend of the 5th and 6th. There’s also a hands-on development event on Monday.

The location is beautiful: the Faculty House at Columbia University.

• Click here for full hotel and attendee information.
• Click here to register for the two day conference.

Around 40 tickets are still available and they cost $100.

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Congratulations to the CMSExpo and the Joomla core team: they’re getting together again. Wilco Jansen will be the keynote speaker at next week’s event in Evanston, north of Chicago. Anthony Ferrara from the core was at the last event in Denver. It’s good to see so many people who understand that the community and commercial sides of Joomla are compatible.

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I’ve just arrived back from a long series of Joomla training classes on the west coast that culminated in Joomla Day Las Vegas on Saturday. Before I start to wade through the 4000+ emails in my inbox, here are some thoughts on the Vegas experience:

1) Unconference

Initally I was unsure about traveling all the way to Nevada for an unconference. Part of me wondered what on earth an unconference was anyway. Even Allen Gunn who ran the day agreed that its very easy to be sceptical about a “hippy event where people talk about whatever they want”. Its also hard to market an unconference because, especially in this economy, many people want the clarity of a schedule that includes fixed learning classes.

I was wrong. It was more lively, more engaging and I met more people than ever before at a Joomla conference. In the hands of a skilled organizer like Allen, holding an unconference proved a masterful decision.

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OK – you’re probably sick of Vegas analogies by now. “Raising the stakes”, “going all in”, “upping the ante” … however you describe it, Joomla Day Las Vegas is starting to look really, really good. This is the current presenter line-up and we hope to have even more big names to announce soon:

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Last spring the North American Joomla Day was in Vancouver. This time its down in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Joomla! Day Las Vegas is going to be an one-day conference of Joomla! experts
presenting on Joomla! basics,
design, development and advanced topics.

Presenters will include almost the entire Joomla core team including Andrew Eddie, Anthony Ferrara, Louis Landry and Rob Schley. Registration costs $45 and includes a personalized Joomla! Day Las Vegas t-shirt.

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Here are my three presentations from the CMS Expo. There was a flow to the presentations from basic to advanced so I’ve ordered them accordingly.

For my and other people’s thoughts on the Denver Expo, please click here.

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1) Organization

Wow – outstanding. Both Expos have run like clockwork. If you think Open Source people are flakes, you haven’t seen an event organized by John, Linda and their team from Chicago.

2) Core + Commercial

It was great to see Anthony from the Joomla core in attendance. Hopefully we’ll see commercial developers at April’s Joomla Day in Las Vegas.

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Just got back from Joomla Day Vancouver at around 3 this morning, having enjoyed every minute of it. 

With over 300 emails to answer and our monthly Atlanta Joomla meeting to organize for tonight, I hope you don’t mind if I leave most of the recap to other people.

Here’s an online roundup of the conference:

• Presentations: Live blogging was done by Raul who has a substantial summary of almost every presentation.
• Publicity: There’s a write-up on Linux.com which also talks about Joomla Days in general.
• Photos: Rastin, one of the organizers, has a good number of pics from the event.

 

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This is my presentation on Joomla SEO from JoomlaExpo.

Increasingly we’re going to be recommending two SEO solutions for both Joomla 1.0 and Joomla 1.5 … sh404SEF and the SEF Patch. I’m in the process of rewriting the SEO Book to make those our clear recommendations for most 1.0 and 1.5 sites, but this is the first time I’ve explained that publicly.

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I arrived back from Chicago just before midnight yesterday and I’m still buzzing today.

The JoomlaExpo was a huge success. I’ve a whole bunch of stuff to organize and post over the coming week from Powerpoints, handouts, Expo recaps and news of the big Joomla project that was announced with the City of Chicago.

There were over 280 people at the Expo including some from Malaysia, Costa Rica, the Netherlands, England, Scotland and many other places. The whole event was pulled together by excellent organization from the JoomlaChicago members.

Click here and also here to see photos of the event. More to come later in the week when I’ve had more sleep. If  you haven’t done so already, I’d definitely recommend attending a Joomla event near you. Next up is Vancouver.