It looks like we’re going to be able to sneak one more get-together in before the year is over, and to really change things up, its going to be being held in Richmond!

So without further adieu…

EVENT DETAILS

Event: Tazzu Christmas Get-Together
Date: Tuesday, December 15th
Time: 6:30pm to whenever!
Location:
Sammy J Peppers
5580 No. 3 Road — 1/2 block south of the Lansdowne Skytrain Station
Richmond BC

RSVP here please.

We have reservations for about 15 people.

ABOUT SAMMY J PEPPERS
Sammy J Peppers – said to be “The Hottest Place on Earth” – is an upbeat, affordable fresh food eatery, steakhouse and hot shop for business people, adults and families.

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We will be situated in their amazing sports lounge, along with a 100″ big screen TV complete with state of the art sounds systems. That sounds like a party waiting to happen.

They have a huge free parking lot, and are only 1/2 block South of the Lansdowne Skytrain Station – so all Tazzu Vancouver peeps have no reason to not come out and join us!

Be sure to bring your appetite and business cards.

PS: FOOD BANK BOX

We will be setting up a Food Bank box. If you are able, please bring non-perishable item(s) and show those who need a hand, that we care!

We hope you can make it!

Its Tazzu Networking Event time again, and everyone is invited to join us…

DETAILS:

Where: Steamworks Brew Pub – 375 Water Street Gastown Vancouver
When: Wednesday March 18th
Time: 6:00pm and on…
RSVP: Reservations for 25 – 30 people
Note: Auto-gratuity of 15% in effect

Bring your appetite, sense of humor and biz cards.

Also bring your cameras, snap photos and post them on Flickr: flickr tag: tazzu09mar

Please make your reservations here as seating will go fast!

See you there!

~

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Well, 2008 has left the building, and 2009 is in the house! Happy New Year Tazzu, and thank you for a fantastic 2008!!

Here is a brief 2008 recap:

Tazzu either sponsored or hosted…

• * Several Networking Events
• * Joomla DemoCamp
• * Joomla DocCamp
• * Vancouver JoomlaDay
• * Vancouver WordCamp (WordPress)

The Tazzu forum now has over 350 users with over 15,000 posts.

What lies ahead for Tazzu in 2009?

The development of the new infrastructure for Tazzu 2.0 is still well underway. This newly developed version will offer more enhanced collaboration and networking tools for community members. We’ve not set a date yet as to when it will be released… we’ll keep you in suspense a little longer.

Requests have been made for more learning opportunities re: WordPress and Joomla CMS

Rastin and I will be meeting tomorrow to discuss other ideas… so stay tuned.

Once again Happy New Year Tazzu, may this year bring each of us much success and happiness!

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.

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

Technorati Tags: joomladay, vancouver, tazzu, floatingworld, brucebyfield, miss604, hummingbird604

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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We would like to invite you to join us for Canada’s largest Joomla event: Joomla! Day Vancouver. It will be hosted at the Vancouver Public Library located in downtown Vancouver, beautiful British Columbia. This whole day event is held on Saturday June 14th 2008 from 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM.

Joomla! CMS is one of the most powerful Open Source content management systems (CMS) on the planet. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable to use.

The new version of Joomla (version 1.5) is an ideal platform for building Corporate websites, Intranets, Social Networks, and Web Applications in general.

Joomla! CMS has been inspired, developed and maintained by groups of volunteers from different countries around the world. It is a true evidence of what a crowd of inspired people can accomplish through an open source project. There are currently about 30 volunteers responsible for development and maintenance of Joomla CMS including a community of more than 180,000 users and 3rd party developers, all who have gathered around this project during the past couple of years.

In this event you will get to meet and listen to some of the people who are the original creators and maintainers of the Joomla! CMS framework. You also get to meet other Joomla developers and enthusiasts who live either in the greater Vancouver area or have flown in to attend this great community driven and inspired event!

So please remember…

The Date: June 14th 2008 from 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM
The Location: Alice McKay room at the Library Square Conference Centre in the Central Vancouver Public Library Building
350 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, Beautiful British Columbia, Canada
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[ Vancouver Public Library ]

How can we register for this event:

The tickets are 25$ each and for that price you will be getting a Vancouver Joomla Day! T-Shirt and a coupon which buys you a free coffee and baked goodies.

You can register online here:

Who are the Presenters?

Chris Adams – CEO of Rochen Limited

Chris Adams is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rochen Limited, a web hosting provider that specializes in performance hosting solutions allowing dynamic scripts like Joomla! to realize their full potential running right out of the box with fast load times and fantastic uptime. Rochen has certified support engineers based throughout the United States, Canada, Australia and United Kingdom, not outsourcing any part of their operations, and maintains their own servers and infrastructure in Dallas, TX, United States.

Rochen is a major sponsor of Joomla! and Chris has been involved with providing the infrastructure to the project since before the name “Joomla!” was even decided or publicly announced. Chris has previously spoken at Joomla! Days in Leeds, United Kingdom in 2006 and at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA, United States in 2007. He has also attended the LinuxWorld Open Source Awards in London, UK with members of the Joomla! Core Team in 2005 and 2006 where Rochen was nominated as a finalist in the category of “Best Open Source Web Host” both years running.

Brad Baker – Joomla! Core Team Member

It all started in October 2003, when Brad stumbled upon Mambo in his quest for an easy to use CMS. By 2004 he was on the Core Team looking after forum administration. Since moving to Joomla, and seeing the community and team expand even further, his responsibilities have broadened to encompass looking after all the Joomla! websites and infrastructure.

Brad has years of experience in the web hosting industry. As well as running his own local Webhosting and design business he also works for Rochen and has done so for a number of yrs. He had been associated with Mambo since 2003, and brings his good humor and expertise to the ever growing Joomla! fold.

Levis Bisson – Joomla! Core Team Member

Levis is an analyste-programmer (B.Sc.A.). After many years in the job market, Levis decided to go the Laval University to study computer programming in 1997. Graduating in 2000, he started along with Michelle Bisson, a Web programming business. Their primary clientele is the Quebec government offering customized programming solutions. He had been involved in the Mambo community since July 2003 and it now actively involved in developing Joomla!. With much anticipation, he looks forward to the next phase of the Joomla! project.

Michelle Bisson – Joomla! Core Team Member

Michelle Bisson is one of the founding members of Joomla! Before that she was invited onto the Mambo Core Team in early 2004 after being active in the Mambo community since mid 2003. She partners with Lévis Bisson in a web development company, Jazzisoft International Inc. which specializes in custom programming to the Quebec government and developing Joomla! based sites to the municipal government, businesses and non-profits. Their company is also know as POPcliQ in Québec, Canada. They are fluently bilingual: English and French. They have started to offer their services internationally.

Her involvement in the past was coordinating the User Documentation Team. Currently, she is leading the Fundraising Team, representing Joomla! at various Joomla! events and involved in organizing Joomla! events in Canada

Steve Burge – CEO of Alledia

Steve Burge is the CEO of Alledia (www.alledia.com), one of the leading Joomla development companies in the world, having built over 200 Joomla websites. He is the author of he Joomla SEO Book and writes a daily blog about Joomla! and Search Engine Optimization at www.alledia.com/blog.

Originally from England, he now lives and works close to Atlanta, Georgia.

Louis Landry – Joomla! Core Team Member

Louis of New Orleans, Louisiana, works in web development and holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from Louisiana Tech University. His first experience with computers was playing on a 286 with Basic at his father’s office. Louis has programmed in many languages, ranging from low level x86 assembly to managed languages like Java and scripting languages like PHP.

Jennifer Marriott – Joomla! Working Group Member

Jennifer Marriott started designing print media in the mid 90′s and progressed into freelance web development from there. Her private web design work for herself and her clients has mad her an expert in taking artist websites to the next level using Joomla!.

Jennifer is a renowned blues singer and guitarist with the band Jennifer Marriott & Odd Sheep Out, and her experience as an artist gives her a unique perspective on the communication needs of artists.

As a Joomla! supporter, Jennifer has contributed to the project in the Sites and Infrastructure working group since 2005 and is currently diving into Q&T.

www.jennifermarriott.com

Toni Marie Swats – Joomla! Working Group Member

Toni has been an all-around web and database consultant for six years,working from home to be closer to her family.

Toni discovered Joomla two years ago and has since focused her entire consultancy on Joomla. With partner David Prestia, she owns MyDynamicSite.com, a custom Joomla design consultancy.

Toni has been a part of the Joomla Forum Workgroup for more than a year, and is currently one of the Joomla Extensions Directory editors.

Event Organizers

Wendy Robinson – Vancouver Joomla! Day Coordinator & Joomla Community Forum Administrator

Tazzu Business & Technology Community – www.Tazzu.com

Rastin Mehr rmd Studio Inc. – Former Joomla Development Workgroup member and Google Summer of Code Mentor

Jeannette Duguay – JenTekk Web Solutions www.JenTekk.ca

Ash Sanieyan – PeerGlobe Technology Inc. www.PeerGlobe.com

Event Sponsors:

Open Source Matters (home of Joomla) – www.OpenSourceMatters.org

Rochen Engineered Hosting – www.Rochen.com

FatPort Secure Broadband Wireless

Baratta Design – www.dvbaratta.com

Media Sponsors:

• Bush Branding & Marketing – www.bushmarketing.com
• Raul Pacheco (hummingbird604) – hummingbird604.com
• Rebecca Bollwitt (Miss604) – www.Miss604.com – Thank you for the post
• Peter Gordon (Vancouver PHP Users Association) Thank you for the post

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