Ranging from beginners and enthusiasts through to experts and global developers, 135 people attended the sold out Melbourne JoomlaDay 08 at the University of Melbourne on Saturday February 2nd. The capacity crowd saw presentations on a range of areas to do with Joomla, including some exclusive demonstrations of Joomla! 1.5 features by Brad Baker and Sam Moffat from the Joomla Core Team.
Norm Douglas walked through the basics of setting up Joomla! 1.0. Dinah Randall highlighted some of the issues that users will face in converting 1.0 templates into the new format for Joomla! 1.5.Damian Hickey from Freeway Ecommerce (www.openfreeway.org) outlined issues being faced in regards to ecommerce in the coming months, and explained the path ZacWare were taking currently to integrate Freeway with Joomla.
Leslie Hawthorn from Google Highly Open Participation contest got the group thinking about mentoring students in the GHOP, where there's currently over 100 projects being run in conjunction with Joomla.
Videos from the day will be posted to www.joomladay.org.au shortly, and all those who attended are encouraged to register and log into www.joomladay.org.au where there will be follow up discussions in the forum there.
Thanks once more to the sponsors of Joomladay - Techspace.com.au, Nerds on Site and Rochen hosting - for making the day possible. Feedback shows the event was extremely successful and the organizers are already looking forward to running an even bigger Melbourne event in 2009.
