First Joomla!Day South Africa event a roaring success

The Joomla! Day South Africa Organizing Team would like to thank everyone who participation, especially the generous sponsorship received from MyGate and Vanilla.

Without you and your generous contributions, the Joomla!Day South Africa would not have been the same, or possible!  The organisers want to say a genuine, big heart-felt "Thank You!".  They thank you for not only the financial support, but also for the mental support and for fueling the vision.  

The success of the first Joomla!Day in South Africa - and in all likelihood Africa - is attributed to the fantastic team who were firmly on board, with a common Joomlarious passion, special people who helped to make things happen!  Like catalysts, who fuel the project and help to materialize the vision.

People traveled from all over the country, Christine Taylor (TM4Y) from Johannesburg, Ryan Demmer (JCE Editor) from Pietermaritzburg, Brendon Hatcher (Brilliant Web) from Durban and Sean & Mel Grant (Slingshot) from Empangeni,  Gideon Seal (Gamtoos Group) from Humansdor.

Others from Cape Town like Matthew Philogene (Raramuri Design) and Chris and Andrew (Joomla Junkie) were quick to enlist for the inaugural South African Joomla!Day.

The event was held in a shared conference room of the Bandwidth Barn, which is part of the Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative, a development project which houses over 100 emerging technology service providers. With wireless internet, first class furnishings and a room full of Joomla enthusiasts, we were set for a full day of Joomla!

Despite an electricity failure for about two hours, we managed to showcase a variety of Joomla! topics, including templating, security, a local payment gateway solution that is being customised for Joomla!, the ever popular JCE Editor extension, presented by the author himself, the Learn Joomla! initiative and Joomla Multimedia Tutorials developed in South Africa.  WOW - South Africa doing it for Joomla!

Pre- and post-event Joomla training courses were conducted by Slingshot, who introduced Joomla to another five Joomla enthusiasts, who are now all students in a moderated Joomla end users course that others are free to join if they want to Learn Joomla!

Plans are already in motion for the second Joomla! Day South Africa, to be held in Johannesburg on 14 July 2007.  Interested people should keep their eyes peeled on www.joomladay.co.za

Participants are welcome to discuss the event here..

MUGSHOTS! 

 

  Well of course there were lots of these! Have a look. Early mornings are clearly not everyone's best time of day. Of course the ladies looked beautiful as usual but boy did some of the guys need some help! :) Have a look at the gallery here.

DOWNLOADS

Presentations from Joomla! Day South Africa, held in Cape Town have been loaded onto the site and everybody is free to make use of these resources as they are excellent tools which allow all Joomla! users to develop and grow skills.  Audio files from the sessions should also be available in time.

NEXT JOOMLA! DAY SOUTH AFRICA, JOHANNESBURG

Just when you thought it was over.... Yes, that's right - THE NEXT JOOMLA! DAY SOUTH AFRICA- this time in Johannesburg. Registration details will follow so stay alert.

However make sure you diarize the date in the meantime...14 July 2007