Developers & Techies in Cape Town know Joomla is a free, open source content management system for publishing content on the world wide web and intranets.

The Joomla system includes features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization.

Joomla is licensed under the GPL, and is the result of a fork of Mambo.

The name Joomla officially ends with an exclamation mark, but this is commonly omitted.

Joomla! Day is a great opportunity to learn, network with other Joomla! users and developers, and to discover ways you can contribute to the uptake of Joomla! in South Africa.

Joomla! Days are well attended worldwide. A key benefit of attendance is the opportunity to connect with hundreds of members of the Joomla! community, speakers, Joomla! developers and members of the Joomla! Southern African Portal.

There will be ample opportunity for networking. The South African Joomla! community has been hard at work to ensure the 2008 Joomla! Day events are both informative and fun as they eagerly look forward to another year of successful conferences, following three events which were run in 2007.

Friday will focus on topics helpful to in-house webmasters not currently using Joomla!, business decision makers, marketing managers etc. This is a non-technical session focused on the business case for using Joomla!.

On Saturday the focus will shift to the Joomla! user community. This is a technical and business session, covering topics of interest to users who install and manage web sites for themselves or clients.

Joomla! Day

Date: 11 – 12 July 2008
Venue: Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Location: Cape Town
Time: 11:00 – 18:00

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