17Aug Joomla!Day Cape Town, South Africa – Great Success
In nonetheless an additional success in a fibre of successful Joomla!Days in South Africa, a full room of Joomla! users from opposite a nation met for a superb eventuality to widespread a Joomla! word in Cape Town today.
I had a respect of fasten a internal Joomla!Day care team, together with Matthew Philogene, Brendon Hatcher, as well as Sean Grant, all of whom put in extensive efforts for a great day of events. we was generally respected to be a initial Joomla care part of to attend a Joomla!Day in Africa.
Key to my goals for in attendance this eventuality was to safeguard which a Joomla plan had a clever concentration upon expanding a efforts for overdo in to a African continent, starting with a already colourful village in South Africa.
I’m happy to inform which this idea was met as well as exceeded!
To start, a day prior to a event, there was a well-attended Joomla precision session. This was a full day of hands-on Joomla learning, covering both Joomla basis as well as Joomla modernized tips as well as tricks. Additionally, a superb internal non-profit classification (Zakheni Arts Therapy Foundation) was a leader of a Speed Site Showdown, which supposing them with a group of Joomla professionals to set up them a Joomla Web site during no cost. The site should be rising soon!
The Joomla!Day eventuality itself enclosed a accumulation of presenters as well as topics, including:
- keynote as well as call to movement in Africa (Ryan Ozimek)
- Speed Site Showdown feedback (Matthew Philogene, Carl Beukes, Leslie Bester)
- sh404 SEF (Brendon Hatcher)
- a preview of Joomla 1.6 (Ryan Ozimek)
- a preview of Morph (JoomlaJunkies)
- Jumi – when law formula is indispensable (Imel Rautenbach)
- a Joomla tour (Phehello Mofokeng)
This Joomla!Day eventuality was an critical matter for people in a internal communities to come brazen as well as rivet their circuitously communities to magnify a Joomla organization to assistance a poor in to circuitously countries as well as communities. A ardent shutting speak by Phehello brought everybody behind to a call to action: Joomla should be employed to assistance capacitate communities opposite a continent to some-more effectively share their stories with a world. It indeed can be a apparatus to assistance organizations inside of Africa to improved rivet with their communities, as well as foster their causes.
The Joomla!Day group here wants to send most interjection to a friendly efforts of Moegamat Alexander as well as his group during a Cape Peninsula University of Technology which supposing a smashing environment as well as great support.
Of course, a Joomla!Days in South Africa do not finish here! Look out for stirring Joomla!Day in Johannesburg after this year. Congratulations to a Joomla!Day South Africa team, keep up a great work!
