We want to organize a Joomla Day in Bolivia

[oky_]

Hi Akede ! 

I have looked in the forum regarding how to organize a JoomlaDay, and I have found many ideas here, thank you. We have a small company that creates web sites with Joomla!, and we would like to spread the word regarding this software here in Bolivia

We have established contact with the “Comunidad de Software Libre de Bolivia”,  they are organizing the Free Software Conference at the end of October in which we are going to give a lecture discussing the service we provide with Joomla!.

Nevertheless we want to support this entity in organizing a day geared specifically at discussing Joomla, which would be set for the last week of November or the first week of December.

The question is the following: How can we go about obtaining the participation of a member of the Joomla team? Whether it be via teleconference or their actual presence, or any other idea to help us.

Thanks,

Y un abrazo grande desde Bolivia !!!

Oscarín.

[akede]

Hi Oscarin,

Do you have contact to your local translation teams / community already? It is always good to have those contacts. I see in the translation team lists that there is no special team for your country and assume you might use the Spanish language packs.

In general we need to check dates and schedules for the team members. A teleconference presents from one of our members should be no real problem. I also can check if we have a working group member in the region and may be to get you in touch with other communities in South America. Do you have already a date/month in mind?

Alex

[oky_]

We have scheduled Joomla! Day for Saturday December 1st at the University of Aquino Bolivia (UDABOL) in the city of La Paz and are coordinating the event with the Free Software Community of Bolivia -  they might actually take advantage of our initiative to organize two or three evenings of presentations/events related to the Community the week prior to Joomla! Day. There is also the possibility of simultaneously putting together a Joomla! Day in another city such as Santa Cruz, in which case the two events would take place in parallel and would have the same program.

Some of our ideas for topics/presentations include:

• A "What is Joomla!" conference for those who do not know the software, success stories (Web sites designed with Joomla!). Directed to businesses and students of diverse areas of study. 
• Putting together a Web site from scratch with Joomla!. Directed to students.
• Development of templates. Directed to students and developers.
• What is new about Joomla 1.5 (Teleconference with the Joomla! team)
• Joomla for XYZ (this is where we are open to suggestions as to what other topics we could include?)

[akede]

Hi,

Could you please send us some information and details for a frontpage announcement. Thanks in advanced

Alex

[rumeau]

i missed this topic, but i found it on the calendar. Oscarin I'm from Chile, and i just want to congratulate you for such a good initiative, i think its more than necessary to spread the voice about joomla! and CMS's in general, specially here in South America where theres still a lot of work to do in the publishing of contents, specially with medium and small businesses

I hope this Joomla Day in Bolivia becomes in the first of a lot of Joomla Days in every south American country, because there's still a lot of people who don't know even what is a CMS and this kind of events gives them the needed tools to start in this fantastic world.

I also like the idea of involving the students community.

Well about the suggestions, i think it would be great if you cant give a conference describing some of the new features of the Framework itself, not just about "Joomla the CMS" but, about the way it works, i know this should be more focused to developers, but in my own case i would love to assist to such a conference specially now that Joomla 1.5 is at RC3.

Well i hope this initiative becomes true and the people get interested on it, Good Luck.

[moshos]

Well hi there!

I'm the web master for this home pages http://www.fedbol.com and http://www.fedbol.org  .
It's a national federation of Bolivians association's in Sweden.
I work a lot on mambo server. And teach web design and mambo/joomla for my own association  Uppsala Sweden. i recently read this and look forward to post this for those home pages.

I'm trying to establish some kind of constant communications whit the people here and the people in Bolivia. Please mail me about this evenst to [email protected] .

I'm my self Peruvian and know that Colombia has an active Team for mambo users. I had some contact whit them for a while ago. So rumeau we are not alone.

And it's very nice to talk  whit a Bolivian, a Chilean and a Peruvian...  ... beside the old wars. i hope the web and open source programs / Joomla can bring all our people to the light.

LOOK forward to establish contact whit you two guys. mail me if u need help in any kind.
My email: [email protected]

Regards / Saludos

Att / Moises Santoyo León

[oky_]

Hi Alex,

Just wanted to let you know that I am actually in Switzerland until July, so hopefully we can organize a Bolivia/La Paz Joomla! Day in the fall after I get back - I will keep you posted as my return depends a little bit on a family matter and is therefore not completely up to me. That being said, my business partner (Oscar, cc'd) and I will keep an eye on what other countries are putting together so we can learn and be inspired by them for when we launch the Bolivia project!

All the best,

Shahnaz

[oky_]

Hi Alex!

Let me know when & where the Switzerland Joomla!Day is by all means, it would be great to attend and meet you! And I'll see about posting something on the forum about the Bolivia "plan".

Shahnaz

------------------------------ Alex Kempkens wrote:
Dear Shahnaz,

There will be a Joomla!Day begining of June in Switzerland. May be you can join this event and we can meet there in person once.
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[oky_]

Sorry to everybody,

We delayed the organization of the JoomlaDay in Bolivia to august or september. But right now we are working in that thing (something better as result). Shahnaz my partner and friend, she is actually in Switzerland and she is going to meet with Alex in Switzerland Joomla!Day begining of June. Thanks rumeau for the ideas, we are still working with students community, I'll have more updates soon. Thanks.

Nice Site Moises, I'll get you in contact with Shahnaz.

Oscar G.

i missed this topic, but i found it on the calendar. Oscarin I'm from Chile, and i just want to congratulate you for such a good initiative, i think its more than necessary to spread the voice about joomla! and CMS's in general, specially here in South America where theres still a lot of work to do in the publishing of contents, specially with medium and small businesses

I hope this Joomla Day in Bolivia becomes in the first of a lot of Joomla Days in every south American country, because there's still a lot of people who don't know even what is a CMS and this kind of events gives them the needed tools to start in this fantastic world.

I also like the idea of involving the students community.

Well about the suggestions, i think it would be great if you cant give a conference describing some of the new features of the Framework itself, not just about "Joomla the CMS" but, about the way it works, i know this should be more focused to developers, but in my own case i would love to assist to such a conference specially now that Joomla 1.5 is at RC3.

Well i hope this initiative becomes true and the people get interested on it, Good Luck.