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Are you ready? Here it comes … the SteakCamp !!!

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Rastin Mehr
on June 20, 2008
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Well we had the Joomla Camp (here and here) and then the WordCamp and if you ever had a chance to meet Raul (aka hummingbird604 ) he is planning to do a SteakCamp.

If you have been following Raul’s blog, you probably know that he writes reviews about Vancouver’s restaurants, and apparently he has accepted the challenge of writing a review for this little restaurant in East Vancouver called the Brave Bull which sells steak for 8.95 and according to the www.BuzzBishop.com blog “it’s serving food. And people are leaving the place alive.”

I’ve offered to make a few blog posts and create a facebook event for the SteakCamp so many of us could arrange to show up at the Brave Bull on Monday evening. You know when it gets to Food and Friends I am there, so bring in your cameras and appetite so we can have a joly good time together.

SteakCamp details

WHEN - Monday June 23rd, 2008 at 6:00pm
WHERE - The Brave Bull

The Brave Bull’s House of Steaks
1298 E Hastings St, Vancouver
Tel: 604-253-4728

WHY - To answer Buzz Bishop’s challenge to Raul (www.hummingbird604.com), Karen (www.tinybites.ca) and restaurant reviewers in Vancouver.

If you are on Facebook you can RSVP here and invite your friends too!

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Vancouver Joomla Day was a major success!

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Rastin Mehr
on June 19, 2008
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Vancouver Joomla Day

I should have made this post on Monday, but we were still recovering from the event and catching up with the lost work hours for our client’s projects.

For those of you who missed this event, it was held on June 14th in the Vancouver Public Library. To learn more you can read this blog post.

Vancouver Joomla Day

I guess the pictures from the Vancouver Joomla Day speak for themselves, we did have a great time all together. There were concerns in the past that Joomla! wasn’t nearly as recognized as Wordpress or Drupal in the Vancouver area, and this event busted the Myth! Based on the multiple counts, we had about 120 people show up. The ratio of ladies to gentlemen were about 1 to 3; we certainly hope to have more ladies involved in these type of events in the future.

Vancouver Joomla Day

Based on the community feedback, about 11 people showed up (correct me if I’m wrong) at the last Joomla Day held in Toronto, so I think it is safe to announce the Vancouver Joomla Day as being the largest one ever in Canada so far.

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Vancouver Joomla Day Tshirts and Tickets

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Rastin Mehr
on June 10, 2008
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Vancouver Joomla Day at the Vancouver Public Library

Just heard from Wendy that all the Vancouver Joomla Day Tshirts are sold out.

By the way, the Tickets are 25$ only if purchased online, otherwise they are 30$ at the door.

Based on the Ticket sales we estimate that around 110 people will show up for sure, but we do have enough room for up to 200 people so if you haven’t purchased your tickets, it is still not too late: do it now!

Let your facebook friends know by doing an RSVP

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JoomlaDay Media Sponsors, Thank you for spreading the word!

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Rastin Mehr
on June 9, 2008
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I would like to thank the following people who have helped us to spread the word and promote the Vancouver Joomla Day event which is happening this Saturday. You can follow their blogs during and after the event for more coverage and information.

Raul Pacheco (hummingbird604.com) on the right. Raul is an avid blogger with a great personality and sense of humour so don’t forget to drop by and say hello to him.  Raul has kindly accepted to liveblog the event for us, so follow his blog this Saturday.

Rebecca Bollwitt (Miss604) on the left. I’ve also contacted Miss604 to join us this saturday but unfortunately she won’t be available this weekend. We’re going to miss her, however she has been so kind to promote the Vancouver Joomla Day on her blog. Thank you Miss604!

Floating World is a Joomla Development and Hosting company located in Victoria BC. Aaron Handford from the Floating World is also one of the Presenters at the Vancouver JoomlaDay. His topic is “Using custom components to improve search engine ranking”. Aaron has recently joined the Tazzu community, we are looking forward to meeting him in person.

Floating World has a very interesting twist. They offer web hosting and their servers are powered by solar energy, now how is that for a change? This is Green hosting by definition.

January 19th 2008 Vancouver Joomla! DocCamp

Bruce Byfield is a long time Tazzu member and a contributing editor for the SourceForge sites Linux.com and the IT Manager’s Journal. Bruce is quite active in the Vancouver tech community, and we have had the plesure of meeing him in many previous JoomlaCamp, WordCamp, OpenWeb Conference, and Tazzu networking events. Bruce will be writing about the Vancouver Joomla Day event.

Our friends at the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (the BC chapter) have been so kind to echo our announcement for us. Thank you!

Likewise I would like to thank you the following organizations and people for spreading the word for us:

Industrial Brand Creative Inc.

Bush Branding & Marketing

Peter Gordon (Vancouver PHP Users Association) Thank you for the post

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There will be door prizes at the Vancouver Joomla Day

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on June 9, 2008
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Did I hear door prizes? yes! bring in your business cards and there will be a draw at the end of each presentation. That means you can win prizes offered by the following companies. I’m not exactly sure what the gifts are, but building websites with Joomla! 1.5 is one of them!

www,rochen.com

www.alledia.com

www.mydynamicsite.com

www.jxtended.com

www.dvbaratta.com

www.extremejoomla.com

www.jennifermarriott.com

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Have the spotlight on the Vancouver Joomla Day

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on May 29, 2008
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If you have developed any project using the Joomla! CMS you are qualified to have your own 15 minutes of fame under the spotlight at the Vancouver Joomla Day event. We have 5 available spots for you. If we receive more than 5 we reserve the right to choose 6 projects out of them. We will however think of ways for the remaining submitted projects to get noticed as well.

15 minutes may not seem like a lot, but if you organize your speech as follows you can make the best use of it. To give you some tips have the following information ready about your project:

  1. An online Demo (with easy to remember URL)
  2. The elevator speech description of your project. Tell us what it is about in 2-3 lines max.
  3. Give us a link to more detailed descriptions online
  4. Give us some print hand outs about your project
  5. Throw in some quick surprising facts and interesting highlights about your project

You don’t have to focus on the software development aspects of your project. You can talk about the organizational behavior, social, and marketing aspect of your project too. Tell us what problems you were trying to solve and what were your challenges.

To submit your project you can simply post a url and description as a comment on this blog post

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The new Vancouver Joomla Day Schedule

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Rastin Mehr
on May 29, 2008
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There have been some changes made to Vancouver Joomla! Day. We’ve figured the previous schedule was a bit too developer focused and had little room for Community members to be in the spotlight and socialize too. The new schedule here provides:

  • 6 Project Spotlight time slots for those community members who’d like to display a project developed in Joomla. More details regarding the Project Spotlights will be posted immediately.
  • There is a 1 hour lunch break which allows us to socialize a bit
  • We also have a 50 min break at the end of the day from 4:20 to 5:30 which will give us a chance to socialize and cross pollinate ideas.

To view the new schedule please visit: http://vancouver.joomla.ca

To RSVP on facebook

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and please do not forget to register

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