Joomla!Day DC - October 16, 2010 - Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA
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Joomla!Day DC 2010 was held on October 16, 2010 at Microsoft MidAtlantic's conference facilities in Chevy Chase, Maryland, just over the state line from Washington DC.
Program And Speakers[edit]
A three-track program was offered.
| Time | Standard | Advanced | Designer/Developer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 to 8:30am | Sign-in and Networking | ||
| 8:30am to 9:00am | Keynote Presentation: The Awesome Potential of Joomla! 1.6 Ryan Ozimek | ||
| 9:15am to 10:30am | Website Strategy Jen Kramer |
The Road Ahead for Joomla! Louis Landry |
Joomla! 1.6 Template Development Chad Windnagle |
| 10:45am to 12:00pm | Do I Really Need A Forum? Building A Community Online Brian Teeman |
Joomla! and CRM Tools: A Perfect Match Ryan Ozimek |
Template Overrides Neri Valentin-Macias |
| 12:15pm to 1:00pm | Lunch Session: Install, Customize and Deploy Your Joomla! App (and other apps) on Windows Quickly and Easily with Web PI and Microsoft WebMatrix G. Andrew Duthie - Microsoft | ||
| 1:15pm to 2:30pm | K2/Zoo/FlexiContent Cory Webb |
Joomla! Security Ken Crowder |
Your Joomla! Development Workflow Joe LeBlanc |
| 2:45pm to 4:00pm | Joomla! SEO Bootcamp Steve Gorney |
Training For CMS Clients and Users Steve Burge |
sh404SEF and Google Analytics Yannick Gaultier |
| 4:15pm to 5:15pm | Panel: Social Networking | Backup, restore & migrate your site Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos | |
| 5:30pm to 6:00pm | Wrap-up and Awards Northern Virginia Joomla! Users Group Executive Council | ||
| 6:00pm+ | Evening Plans and Networking |
Producers and Venue[edit]
The Northern Virginia Joomla User's Group [1] (NoVA JUG) Executive Council produced the event. Members were:
- Brian "Sully" Sullivan
- Bruce Scherzinger
- Don Cranford
- Dorothy Firsching
- Joe LeBlanc
- Ryan Ozimek
The venue was a large corporate training and conference center owned by Microsoft Corporation [2]as part of their Mid-Atlantic regional office. Use of the facility, including a/v equipment, was donated by Microsoft. The building is above a rapid transit subway station and was convenient to paid parking. Group hotel rates for out-of-town guests were arranged nearby by the NoVA JUG.
Following the event PICnet, a local agency which uses Joomla! for website development, hosted a party for participants in its Washington DC offices.