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Day 1

08:30 Registration
09:15 Opening: Joomla in South Africa
Matthew Philogene (ZA) (raramuridesign)

Track 1: Adopting Joomla

Goal: Create more users, help real novices

Track 2: Advancing with Joomla

Goal: Support existing users at all levels

09:30 Joomla for Web Developers
The business case and process for using Joomla
Brendon Hatcher (ZA) (BrilliantWeb)

Content Construction with Zoo
Chris Rault (ZA) (Web Monkeys)

10:20 Tea break Sponsor and vendor showcase
10:45 Joomla learning and support resources
How to get up to speed with Joomla
Sean Grant (ZA) (LearnJoomla)
Creating Joomla distros
Reducing project development effort - the example of IdealJoomla
Brendon Hatcher (ZA) (BrilliantWeb)
11:15 Building a web site in 45 Minutes
This is an introductory session for people new to Joomla. In just 45 minutes Brian will take a broken html web site and turn it into a stunning Joomla powered web site.
Brian Teeman (UK) (BrianTeeman.net)

Managing online forums
Using "Discussions" forum extension
Achim Fischer (DE) (Codingfish)
Achim is the developer of Discussions

12:00 Lunch Sponsor and vendor showcase
13:00 Opening & Keynote
Ryan Ozimek (USA) (Open Source Matters)
13:50 Exciting possibilities for government when using Joomla! CMS for their websites
Phehello Mofokeng (ZA)

Seblod 2.0 CCK for Joomla 1.6/1.7
Simon Dowdles (ZA) (WebFactory)

14:40 Tea break Sponsor and vendor showcase
15:00

Get your Joomla! on with WebMatrix
Dave Russell & Kath Roderick (ZA) (Microsoft SA)

Running a classified ads site
Using "Marketplace" classifieds extension
Achim Fischer (DE) (Codingfish)
Achim is the developer of MarketPlace

15:50

Charities & governments, meet Joomla
Ryan Ozimek (USA) (Open Source Matters)

Mastering module magic
Using Advanced Module Manager to overcome the limitations of the Joomla core
Peter van Westen (NL) (NoNumber!)
Peter is the developer of Advanced Module Manager

16:40 Report-back from Joomla/OSM Leadership summit
17:00 Open session
Q & A, quick presentations (2 min each) etc
17:30

SOCIAL EVENING DRINKS SPONSORED BY ebay
Meet and interact with Joomla Developers and Users from South Africa, Speak to International developers. (Social evening is for registered participants only)

Dinner to follow at a venue to be announced
(Dinner costs not included in participant fee).

Day 2

09:00 Case Study - How we built the http://joomlagov.info/ website
Dwight Barnard
(ZA) (Got2cy)

Web developer ethics
Sean Grant (ZA) (LearnJoomla)

09:20 Hidden Joomla Secrets
Seen by over 30,000 people, the presentation is all about exposing the true power, flexibility and opportunities that Joomla offers web developers - "Secrets" not known to even the most experienced Joomla web site builders. Updated for Joomla 1.6 & 1.7, I'm confident that this "all new" presentation will surprise you even more.
Brian Teeman (UK) (BrianTeeman.net)
10:20 Tea break Sponsor and vendor showcase
10:45 Recent changes to the development cycle of the Open Source CMS Project, Joomla!
Joomla 1.6, 1.7 and Joomla Frameworks and the future of Joomla
Andrew Eddie (AU) (The Art of Joomla)

Track 1: Joomla Building blocks

Goal: Focus on specific areas of Joomla implementation

Track 2: Advanced Joomla

Goal: Extending existing users

11:35

sh404SEF development
SEO using sh404SEF™, analytics and future directions
Yannick Gaultier (FR) (AnythingDigital)
Yannick is the developer of
sh404SEF™

How the PLT ruined the Joomla Project
Louis Landry (US) (Production Leadership Team)

12:25 Lunch Sponsor and vendor showcase
13:15

Wi-Fi in the Enterprise - Can somebody please reboot the router?
Henk Kleynhans (ZA) (Skyrove)

13:30

Nonumber! power squared:
The power of combining NoNumber! extensions
Peter van Westen (NL) (NoNumber!)
Peter is the developer of these extensions

Introduction to the Morph Template Framework for Joomla
Chris Rault (ZA) (Web Monkeys)
Chris is one of the developers of Morph
14:20 Email newsletters in Joomla
Build powerful, Joomla-integrated email campaigns using acyMailing
Ross Bartholomew (ZA) (Bartwebsite)
Joomla security
Bare essentials to serious measures
Brendon Hatcher (ZA) (BrilliantWeb)
15:10 Tea break Sponsor and vendor showcase
15:30 The case for Joomla professional certification
Brendon Hatcher (ZA) (BrilliantWeb) and Sean Grant (ZA) (LearnJoomla)
Joomla! as a multi-site framework - looking ahead
Stephen Tredrea (ZA) (Amibe.net)
16:20 How JCE 2 makes it even easier to edit articles
Ryan Demmer (UK) (JCE)
Ryan is the developer of JCE
A site rebuilt - realising the power of Joomla
Thierry Muller (SA) (OCSL Education)
17:10 Closing
Feedback, prize draws
17:30

Dinner to follow at a venue to be announced
(Dinner costs not included in participant fee)