After an unexpected immediate response from Brad Baker to my email sent late on Monday night South African time, moments after sending it, a reply popped into my inbox, offering to discuss our request to incorporate Joomla Visual Tutorials into our Joomla Portal for Southern Africa.
Having used the fantastic tutorials in both a classroom and individual training basis, and from my extensive investigations on the www, I could not have hoped for nor imagined a better answer to our prayers, when Brad agreed to let us use his hard work and dedication within our Joomla Courses website. This was all negotiated via Skype telecon., and link supplied to enable us to wrap his content into our site, appearing as if it were our own (don't do this without permission at home folks - piracy is a despicable and prosecutable offense!).
Within 30 minutes of hitting the send button on my email request, the Joomla Visual Tutorials were neatly wrapped into our newly created Joomla Training area on our website, for all to access and use, and all of this free of charge.
The South African based Joomla Trainers plan to use the tutorials as the framework for their freshly scheduled Joomla Training Course in Durban, South Africa which takes place this Saturday 21 April 2007, followed by a Search Engine Optimisation Course in Richards Bay, South Africa. Then the Joomla South African Team are off to the Mother city, for Joomla Training Cape Town, both as a Joomla-in-your-office one on one session, and a Joomla-for-small-groups training course. Then up to the golden rand for Joomla Training in Midrand, Johannesburg, still in South Africa and finally returning home to Joomla Training in Richards Bay for a web managers course.
Once participants have been through the one day course, they will hopefully be accustomed to the Joomla Online training materials, and will be able to see when the next course is planned. Slingshot Content Management Systems, the company offering these Joomla courses, has been using, managing and developing Joomla! powered websites since the very first Joomla 1.0 emerged after the split from Mambo, which they had been using until then, some four years ago.
The Joomla Southern African Portal is the place where all of this exciting Joomla developments are originating from, and the portal is already offering an interesting Joomla Referrals scheme, which directs enquiries for Joomla related work to the registered Joomla Designers, Joomla Hosts, Joomla Trainers, Joomla Developers and Joomla Supporters, whilst connecting ordinary Joomla Users, Managers and Administrators. The site is using the Community Builder component, of course, which allows each Joomla Registered User to create their own portfolio's on the site, advertise products and services and more.
There is lots more in the pipeline, such as SETA accreditation of the Joomla Courses, South African language translations and the development of a Joomla Southern African Community with Forum, Directory and national, regional and city Joomla Days, however Joomla.org.za are not letting all their code out onto the forges just yet - you will have to register on the growing Joomla SA Community site yourself, and / or subscribe to one of their Joomla blogs; Joomla Southern African Blog or the Joomla Journal, all of which have RSS syndication links for your News Readers.
Come and join fellow Joomlarians for a fast paced Joomla Course coming to the major centres in South Africa in April and May 2007 - visit the Joomla Training Southern African Calendar for more info.
So by now you should at least know two things - they are South Africans and they love to Joomla!
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