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Re: Canadian Joomla Users....

Post by pbeckermann » Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:40 pm

I have been waiting on a JoomlaDay in Toronto, please let me know when this will happen and where
Im from Burlington

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Re: Canadian Joomla Users....

Post by ianmac » Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:35 pm

Hey Phil!

The latest talk was to have the Joomla! event somewhere around it360, which will be held on April 30-May 2 (it360.ca).  Nothing more solid than that has been decided at this point.

Welcome!  I grew up in Burlington and live in Mississauga now!

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Re: Canadian Joomla Users....

Post by designguru » Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:49 pm

Hey people,

I'm going to be going over the scheduling issues this week and expect to be able to announce a Joomla Conference in Toronto at the Centre for Social Innovation (http://www.socialinnovation.ca) at the end of April - trying to do it on April 28th & 29th so people in town for that it360 gig can hit it up afterwards...

Stay tuned for another post later in the week

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Re: Canadian Joomla Users.... [Toronto Joomla Conference]

Post by akede » Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:48 pm

Hi folks,

as we have now more and more threads talking about Toronto Joomla!Day or other kind of meeting I will merge those threads.

For the info to all:

Michelle applied for a Joomla!Day in Toronto and is in charge of it - current plan is to link it to the it360 conference in April.

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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by ianmac » Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:54 pm

BTW, registration for it360 is now open for those who are planning to attend.

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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by akede » Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:52 am

Hi all,

is there a fixed date for the Joomla!Day already? And other information?

I like to update our calendar

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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by brian » Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:55 am

Ian mentioned May 2
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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by ianmac » Sat Apr 07, 2007 12:54 pm

no it is May 1st.

Did I mention the 2nd?  I am so sorry.

It is planned for the 1st.  Michelle will have forthcoming information.  She is the one to contact about it.  If you can't get a hold of her let me know and I will send you the info that I have.

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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by CoolAcid » Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:57 pm

I lied - You did mention the 1st. I just checked my calendar.

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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by Michelle Bisson » Mon Apr 09, 2007 3:57 pm

Come and meet members of the Joomla! community!

This year's Joomla!Day event will be on Tuesday, May 1, 2007, between 5 pm - 9 pm at the Toronto convention Center.

Present from the Joomla! Core Team and Work Group Teams will be:

Michelle Bisson, Core Team Member, Marketing and Media Team Member
Lévis Bisson, Core Team Member, Joomla! Shop Team Leader
Ian MacLennan, Developer Documentation Work Group Member
Jason Kendall, Developer Work Group Member

The format of this event will be mostly a Meet and Greet Event. Jason Kendall will give a presentation of Joomla! version 1.5.  Individual and small group presentations will be given by each one of us.


We look forward to meeting you!

Please let us know if you are able to come.
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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by JoeJoomla » Mon Apr 09, 2007 5:52 pm

Great to hear the details! I am adjusting my calendar to be there. Do you want all the replies of who will be there to be made in this thread?
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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by Michelle Bisson » Mon Apr 09, 2007 6:08 pm

Good to hear that you will be able to come.  It will be easier to keep track of all who plan to come by posting in this thread. 
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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by pbeckermann » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:50 pm

Great i will also attend, can you give a more specific location in the Convention Center?

Looking forward to it

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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by akede » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:45 pm

Hi all,

is this now a meet & greet or a real Joomla!Day?

Basically the Joomla!Day is a bit more including some presentation and discussions. That's why I'm asking. I don't know if it is still possible to organize a bit more Joomla!Day like event - tell me.

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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by guysmiley » Sat Apr 14, 2007 6:24 pm

I'd love to come...  Are there any details on fees?

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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by guysmiley » Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:11 pm

Am I missing something?  Is this still happening?  ???

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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by ianmac » Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:21 pm

Yes.  It is still happening.  Please see the above.  There will be no cost for the event, though you are welcome to make a donation to the Joomla! project.

In order to gather information, are there any particular topics that people are interested in hearing a presentation on/discussing?

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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by JoeJoomla » Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:14 pm

Maybe someone that is really up-to-date with 1.5 can give us a demonstration of how the new version is different/better than 1.0.12?
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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by ianmac » Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:29 pm

Jason Kendall, who is a member of the development workgroup and is working on 1.5 will be there to do a presentation on 1.5.

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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by Michelle Bisson » Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:33 am

We plan to do presentations as well as have discussions and training about Joomla! 1.0.x and 1.5.

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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by Michelle Bisson » Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:59 pm

Toronto Joomla!Day Update:

Agenda:
- Two formal presentations about Joomla!,
- Informal presentations depending question period.
by Ian Maclennan and Jason,

- Meet and Great -- Come and meet members of the Joomla! community!

Date and Time:
Tuesday, May 1, 2007, between 5 pm - 9 pm

Location:
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
255 Front Street West,
Toronto, Ontario M5V 2W6

Present from the Joomla! Core Team and Work Group Teams will be:

Michelle Bisson, Core Team Member, Marketing and Media Team Member
Lévis Bisson, Core Team Member, Joomla! Shop Team Leader
Ian MacLennan, Developer Documentation Work Group Member
Jason Kendall, Developer Work Group Member

We look forward to meeting you!

Please let us know if you are able to come.
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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by brian » Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:46 pm

Michelle dont you think that you should make a frontpage announcement about this event?
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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by Michelle Bisson » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:12 am

For those who would like to visit our booth (#303) at the IT 360 Conference and Expo (Toronto - May 1 - May 2, 2007), please read the announcement.

IT 360 Conference and Expo (Toronto - April 30 - May 2, 2007)

http://www.joomla.org/content/view/3206/1/
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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by ianmac » Tue May 01, 2007 4:49 am

Just a reminder to everybody that Joomla! Day Toronto will take place tomorrow night (Tuesday, May 1st) from 5:00 to 9:00 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.  Please stop by our booth at it360!

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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by JoeJoomla » Wed May 02, 2007 5:43 am

I had a great time Tuesday night at Toronto Joomla!day. There's a short article and a couple of pictures on my website.

If you are able to go Wednesday make sure you get down there and say hello to the Core Team Members manning the booth. I was able to buy an official Joomla! t-shirt from Michelle. There's not many left so get there early!
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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by Michelle Bisson » Wed May 02, 2007 2:07 pm

Great photos Joe!  Thank you for your support at the IT360 and first Joomla!Day Toronto event.  We had an excellent day yesterday presenting Joomla!

If anyone would still like to attend the IT360 Expo, we will be here till 4pm today to meet you and answer your questions.
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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by guysmiley » Wed May 02, 2007 3:59 pm

I would also like to express my thanks to the Joomla! team members for their dedication to the event and to the community's growth.  The presentation team did a terrific job of highlighting how community driven and community oriented this project is, and it was refreshing to hear Joomla! members expressing their firm beliefs that Joomla!'s growth is a reflection of its members who give back.

Thanks again for a great night and for the overview of 1.5's compatibility with 1.0x.

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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by CoolAcid » Thu May 03, 2007 2:21 pm

Good Morning Everyone!

Thanks to all that showed up at the booth and the get together we had on Tuesday! I was under the impression that Joomla! in Toronto wasn't all the well known, and you all proved me wrong! We have a fairly strong community here with a large base of websites that are either currently in use or on their way to being developed!

It was great to chat with current users in our community and the hype and "virtual cartwheels" people were doing knowing we were there representing J! It was also very cool to talk to some people that seem to want to start using J! in their projects. I'm sure I'm going to get dozens of emails to my GMail account in the next few weeks.

I really enjoyed my time there and being able to discuss where we were and where 1.5 is going to take us. I'm very sure I saw some "light bulbs" click in when people relized how powerful J! really is and where they could take either they own websites, company websites or even intra-net.

I look forward to the inevitable J!UG that will start up and look forward to coming by the meets as I can. For those organizing, remember that I'm always willing to come and talk with you as I can, and maybe even semi-regularly.

Again, thanks to all that dropped by, and thanks to Levi, Michelle, and Ian for a great couple days!
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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by ianmac » Thu May 03, 2007 2:37 pm

Hey!

I would like to echo Jay's comments!

It was great to see some of the flesh and blood users who are working with Joomla!  I have spoken to many users on the forum, but rarely get a chance to meet in person actual users.

It was great to meet the famous (infamous?) JoeJoomla and the response from users was encouraging.

It would be great to see a local user group begin out of this initiative and I would certainly be interested in participating in such a venture.

Open source, in some ways, really is a mystery - at times it really does baffle my mind why there are so many people who are willing to help produce software for free, voluntarily, on their own accord.  It is so easy to take all this for granted, and to forget about the times when the Internet was something only used by big universities and the military, and all we had were 1200 bps modems to connect to BBSs.

I'm looking forward to seeing the Toronto Joomla! community become larger and to see Toronto become a bigger player on the Joomla! map!

I'd like to echo thanks to Michelle and Levis who came from out of the country :) (j/k) to be at Joomla! Day Toronto and organized the material for the booth and many of the logistics.  It was great to meet Jason and to see the enthusiasm that I'm sure he shares with the rest of the development working group.

So here's to Joomla! in Toronto, and here's to looking forward to working with the community to make Joomla! 1.5 not only the best written, but also best documented and best marketed CMS with the best community, both locally and across the world!

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Re: Toronto Joomla Day

Post by JoeJoomla » Thu May 03, 2007 11:29 pm

ianmac wrote:It was great to meet the famous (infamous?) JoeJoomla and the response from users was encouraging.
So it's official, JoeJoomla is infamous!  8)

It was a pleasure to meet you in person too Ianmac!

All the Team Core Members I met are a wonderful group of people. Here is a link to some more pictures from the event: http://joejoomla.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=996 .
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