Non Profit Org Training Conference???

Post by **igeoffi** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:16 am

Should we plan a non-profit organization training conference to help non-profit organizations with Joomla! and to promote Joomla! to interested non-profits?
I personally think that this would be useful for many non-profit organizations. It would train them up and it would promot Joomla! to organizations looking to create or rennovate their website.

HandJ · Post by **HandJ** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:24 pm

Excellent idea, many NGOs I work with would benefit from moving to Joomla. But I take this opportunity to say that Joomla's lack of inbuilt support of DC meta data is one of the main issues that prevents NGOs in the communities I am inivolved with adopting Joomla.

I've seen discussions where the usefullness of DC is questionned, but in Europe certainly I'm convinced that DC support is perceived as important.

brian · Post by **brian** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:27 pm

dc isn't something i've heard too much of in the uk.

the idea of a course is a good idea though.

compass · Post by **compass** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:27 am

Someone organize it and I'll do the training....

Post by **igeoffi** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:36 pm

one problem we're gonna have is where to host it and when to host it

bzoellers · Post by **bzoellers** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:07 am

igeoffi wrote:one problem we're gonna have is where to host it and when to host it

this is a great idea.

anyone know of any good opensource 'conferencing' software or etc that could be used?

DesignGuy · Post by **DesignGuy** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:04 pm

No one thought of an OS conferencing software? Hmmmm....No wonder why the posts stopped. All the developers scurried back to create the next great component! Voila! It's WebexOS! I believe there's a 30 day free trial for WebEx, www.webex.com.

I've got a big conference hall in Chicago, whenever you want to come out here!

Keep me informed - love to help with whatever (and learn!). -JC

Post by **igeoffi** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:38 am

well right now we have compass thats willing to do the training
what we need to decide is when and where we'll host it or use a web conferencing software (http://www.webex.com/) like DesignGuy suggested

sunbeam · Post by **sunbeam** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:12 pm

Great idea!

Count me in.

Asmoday · Post by **Asmoday** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:52 am

Hello !

(Please excuse my elementary English)

I am a Tunisian student and president/founder of an association witch has as goal to provide the use of FREE software and concepts in the student/associative community in Tunisia.

The University of Tunis and the ESSEC Business School, invite me to do a little conference about “The Use of free (GNU/GPL) CMS in dynamic web sites building” and I accept to do this conference and to take Joomla! as the principal subject of this conference.

I am not a Joomla! professional but I made some web sites with this CMS and personally I LOVE IT!

So, what I am asking for is: there is someone who can help me with this presentation? And what the Joomla! Community wants to speak about in the presentation?

This conference will be an introduction to Joomla! and will attract some Tunisian graduate student to Joomla! and the GNU/GPL licensed software.

I want also to create a Joomla! community in Tunisia and this conference will be the beginning.

Thank you for your help
Asmoday

PS: some Tunisian web sites made with Joomla! :
• http://www.colchay.net
• http://www.powerTN.com
• http://www.asmoday.tk

DesignGuy · Post by **DesignGuy** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:37 pm

What about getting together in-person?

Are there any regional user-group-esque meetings on Joomla?

mojoe · Post by **mojoe** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 7:32 am

Can I suggest that we find out where all the master joomla folks who are willing to help ngo's first. Instead of organizing a conference in one spot we should think about organizing many regional 'hero's' to help out ngo's nearby. I shouldn't have to travel to the UK when I have someone in Los Angeles or San Francisco. I think it would be wise to establish regional user groups first. Wait, am I being to rational here? :-[

bzoellers · Post by **bzoellers** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:15 pm

mojoe wrote:Can I suggest that we find out where all the master joomla folks who are willing to help ngo's first. Instead of organizing a conference in one spot we should think about organizing many regional 'hero's' to help out ngo's nearby. I shouldn't have to travel to the UK when I have someone in Los Angeles or San Francisco. I think it would be wise to establish regional user groups first. Wait, am I being to rational here?

we should probably establish a website for it as well

who wants to make a http://www.joomlanonprofit.com haha??

weatherangel · Post by **weatherangel** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:17 am

bzoellers wrote:we should probably establish a website for it as well

who wants to make a http://www.joomlanonprofit.com haha??

Wow, didn't take them long to take that domain name... too bad it will be held forever for no apparent reason other than to hold it.

Oh well...

tgelvin · Post by **tgelvin** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 4:39 pm

Hi Everyone,

I too am for the training conference... however, I feel that most non-profits do not have the resources to attend a conference, so by making it available through a website www.joomlatraining.org using common components to make it easy for all formats to be compatible.

Whomever is going to make it so, needs to keep us informed as to the progress.

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