Joomla! Day is a great opportunity to learn, network with other Joomla! users and developers, and to discover ways you can contribute to the uptake of Joomla! in South Africa.
Joomla! is an award-winning free open source content management system enabling webmasters and amateurs alike to build and administer feature-rich, powerful web sites without having to have an extensive knowledge of web programming languages. Joomla! is broadly deployed worldwide with more than 3.5 million downloads. In its first two months, the latest release (Joomla! 1.5) has already been downloaded over 200,000 times.
There are nearly 3000 extensions to the system, covering virtually every feature one might need on a site. There are also thousands of free and commercial templates. The support forum is extremely active, with 180,000 members and over 1.2 million posts!
Joomla! Days are well attended worldwide. A key benefit of attendance is the opportunity to connect with hundreds of members of the Joomla! community, speakers, Joomla! developers, and members of the Joomla! Southern African Portal.
There will be ample opportunity for networking. The South African Joomla! community has been hard at work to ensure the 2008 Joomla! Day events are both informative and fun as they eagerly look forward to another year of successful conferences, following three events which were run in 2007.
Day 1: Business Community
Friday June 20, will focus on topics helpful to in-house webmasters not currently using Joomla, business decision makers, marketing managers etc. This is a non-technical session focused on the business case for using Joomla. If you want to know if Joomla is suitable for your business site, this is the session for you. See the programme for more detail.
Day 2: User Community
On Saturday, June 21, the focus will shift to the Joomla! user community. This is a technical and business session, covering topics of interest to users who install and manage web sites for themselves or clients. See the programme for more detail.
Register now
Joomla! Days in South Africa are run by the Joomla SA Portal, a non-profit organisation. We therefore aim to keep the fees affordable. Early bird registration for the User Day is only R200, so register now!Corporate sponsorships
Companies are invited to sponsor the event, in exchange for the opportunity to provide information about commercial Joomla! and non-Joomla services at the venue, on the website and in mailshots promoting the event. Contact the local organising team for details.For more information: Visit www.joomladay.co.za and Register online.