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.

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.

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.

Thank you for the music!

I would like to thank all the following people who were involved in organizing, funding, and promoting this community driven event.

Wendy Robinson for initiating the idea, organizing the event, food, location, keeping the communication going and more.

Arash Sanieyan from Peer Globe Technology for photography picking up the projector, promoting , twittering, and blogging the event. His company offers Web Development and Integrated Mobile solutions.

Photo by Raul P-V

Jeannette (JenTekk Web Solutions) who was pretty much involved in everything from promoting and organizing the event. JenTekk has developed several web projects using the Joomla CMS.

Photo by Raul P-V – On the left Bruce Byfield, Ash Sanieyan on the right

Bruce Byfield for conducting interviews and publishing the wonderful article on Linux.com about the Vancouver Joomla Day: Vancouver Joomla!Day provides case study in community-building techniques

Raul, my hero, for Live blogging, Live Twittering, and Photographing the event:

• Starting Session
• SEO and Joomla 1.5
• Project Spotlight with Jim DeLaHunt
• Project Spotlight – Diabetic Diet Secrets
• Joomla Security, Performance, and Hosting
• Vancouver Joomla Day Recap

Chris Adam CEO of Rochen Web Hosting

Our good friends Chris Adam and Brad Baker from the Rochen Web Hosting for sponsoring the Vancouver Joomla Day tshirts.

A number of Joomla! development team who managed to fly in to Vancouver

Rebecca Bollwitt aka. MIss604 couldn’t attend our event, we really missed her. Thank you so much for promoting the Vancouver Joomla Day!

• Vancouver Social Media Scene: Vancouver Joomla Day
• Vancouver Events

And this is myself ( Rastin Mehr from rmd Studio a Custom CMS & Social Media Development company in Vancouver) in case you were wondering who’s writing this blog post

Feedbacks, Suggestions? Bring them on

If you have any feedback or suggestions, please feel free to post them here. Joomla Day events are annual, but Tazzu has organized 3 Joomla Camp events ( Bug Camp, Doc Camp, Demo Camp ) in the past, and there will be more of it happening in the future.

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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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