This weekend Christine and I attended Joomla!day New England in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA. The event took place in the local Marlboro College Graduate School and was organised by Jen Kramer, Andrea Tarr and many more people (btw, they should be mentioned somewhere on the site). It started Friday evening with a template workshop held by Matt Thomas and Barb Ackemann. We arrived just on time to attend this workshop, had pizza and learned a lot about the construct template framework.
We ended up in a bar near our hotel, the Latchis, which is a famous Art Deco building in Brattleboro.
Next day the Joomla!Day started with a good breakfast and Paul Orwigs first keynote as president of Open Source Matters. He was very honest and I enjoyed the way he was presenting. Watch his slides:
I had many interesting conversations with the participants afterwards and I decided to write a book on that topic (Going Mobile with Joomla!). It will be available at the end of May 2012. And hopefully Dawn Russell will create a cover. :)
Christine presented her session after lunch and I was quite impressed. I didn’t see the slides before. But have a look by yourself …
We spent a nice evening in the Marina restaurant with some of the attendees and organizers and if things go well, we’ll see a Chinese translation of the Joomla! 2.5 – Beginner’s Guide :)
Next morning Dianne Henning recorded a JoomStew PodCast while at breakfast (listen to it at http://www.joomstew.com/)
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