There will be a Joomla Development Workshop happenning on September 25th. My good friend Aaron Handford from Floating World Development will be teaching there. One of their most recent projects has been the launch of Earls Restaurants website using the Joomla! 1.5 content management platform. There might be still some spaces available. If you would like to register click here

There is a Joomla training event happening in Vancouver and we would be happy to spread the word for our good friend Steve Burge from http://alledia.com

You can find our more details here: http://www.joomlatraining.com/vancouver

They’ve got enough sign-ups already to confirm that the class is run. If you have any questions, please feel free to email Steve via steve@alledia.com or call on 678-516-4410.

To participate in the forum discussion you may go here

Class Details

Date: Friday March 27, 9am to 4pm
Place: On-Track Computer Training, 1600 – 650 W. Georgia St
Price: $299

Subjects Taught

You’ll learn how to build a Joomla website, from content and user organization, to working with extensions and basic web marketing:

• Part 1: Introduction to Joomla including 1.0 and 1.5.
• Part 2: How to setup and organize content on your Joomla! site.
• Part 3: Choosing and working with components, modules and plugins.
• Part 4: Choosing and working with templates.
• Part 5: Building community websites with Joomla!
• Part 6: E-Commerce for Joomla!
• Part 7: Search-engine optimization for Joomla!
• Part 8: How to manage Joomla! websites professionally

Additional Items Provided

• Lunch and coffee / snacks throughout the day
• 6 months of free Joomla support after the class
• A flash drive full of tutorials and best-of-breed Joomla components
• Free membership to the alledia.com SEO Club. ($99 value)
• Free copy of the Alledia.com Bolt Template. ($60 value)

Well, no-one can say I’m guilty of staying on top of things this winter! So much to do… so little time!

Very quickly, here’s a report on the last Tazzu Networking event of the year.

The turn out was fabulous considering it was for the most part planned on short notice. We booked the party room at Milestones in Yaletown, which is always nice. The room was set up for 24, and I believe 23 showed up…. sweet!!

The food was delicious of course. You can’t go wrong at Milestones. I had an amazing Shanghai noodle dish… so good! We also met new local business people – first time visitors from GoldenPinecone.com – really nice to have you out!! I’d try to mention everyone’s names, but I know I’d forget someone… you know who you are!

So… a GREAT BIG thank you to everyone who was able to join us on short notice! It was wonderful connecting with you again, sharing some laughs and catching up.

Again, thank you!

PS: If you’ve got any suggestions for locations, please let us know as we’d like to change it up a bit. Vegetarian would be a really nice change – yes??

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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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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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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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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

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