Joomla! Day South Africa, Joomla! @ Open Source in ICT Conference, Learn Joomla! Club

I do not normally blog, being either too busy or too lazy to spend my limited time rambling on about my humble opinnion about things. It normally takes some doing for me to get up close and personal with a rather uninspiring blank editor window and pretend that this is actually a two way conversation.

However when notable events come along, it seems right and honourable to share them with all of you - whoever you happens to be - so here are just a few of the journalisticaly justified happenings that I feel to share with you.

This week sees the first Joomla! Day South Africa event to grace the beautiful shores of Durban, and we are trusting for a healthy interest and turnout for the event, which I am helping to organise in my capacity within the Joomla! Portal of South Africa, along with Mat of Raramuridesign and Brendon of Brilliant Web. We even managed to get a press release onto www.joomla.org here: Joomla! Day South Africa - Durban

So hurry along to www.joomla.co.za and get registered...because it is just a day away.


Next week sees me fly off to the Open Source in ICT Conference in Johannesburg - Jozi, as it is fondly called by all who have a twinkle of gold in their eyesight - where I am to present a talk entitled 'Joomla!: Building an Open Source Community in South Africa' which you can checkout on the previous link (unless you are going to be at the conference, in which case i would wait to avoid knowing exactly where I am going with the discussion.

I have also been asked to Chair the Conference, which I am looking forward to, although the open source crew are generally a rather loose bunch of cannons, so it will probably come with it's challenges. It does cause one to wonder, what is really pressing in ICT related to Open Source, I mean given the opportunity to steer a conference, what would really benefit the open source community at this point in time. I would love to hear your thoughts, so please feel free to post them as comments on this article.

For anyone interested in attending the conference, or at least seeing what all the fuss is about, I have posted the Conference Brochure here...

Well, just remember that I will be delivering another popular Learn Joomla! workshop in Midrand, JHB following the conference, so if you need to get your head around Joomla! fast, check out the event registration here: Learn Joomla! in Midrand, JHB [15-16 May ]

Lastly, I found a great pressentation that answers the question: What is Joomla! although I do not know who created it... It offers a super Overview of the Joomla! CMS for anyone who may have heard about Joomla! but does not really know what it can do, or even whether it is safe to deploy mission critical information that way.

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May you Joomla! happily...


South Africa ~ courtesy of www.joomla.org.za ~