Showcasing Joomla! at the MySQL Conference & Expo 2007 .ORG-Pavilion?

[LenzGr]

Hi,

The 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo will take place on April 23rd-26th in Santa Clara, California. As last year, we are arranging a ".org-Pavilion" where we would like to give Open Source Projects related to or based on MySQL an opportunity to showcase their work.

Please see http://www.mysqlconf.com/ for more details about the upcoming conference and http://www.mysqlconf.com/pub/w/45/dotorg.html for a list of projects that were present last year.

I was wondering if somebody from the Joomla! Community would be  interested in representing and demonstrating your application there. If you would like to learn more about this, please contact me directly or the MySQL Community Relations team at [email protected].

Thanks in advance! Keep up the good work.

Bye,
    LenZ

[AmyStephen]

This would be an excellent venue to show off Joomla! with a perfect audience. 

[LenzGr]

Here are a few more details about the Conference and the .org-Pavilion and how to proceed:

Date/Location: April 23-26 in Santa Clara, California
Main Website: http://www.mysqlconf.com/

Hotel:
Hyatt Regency Santa Clara http://www.santaclara.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/

Conference location:
Santa Clara Convention Center http://santaclara.org/conventioncenter/

The .org-Pavilion will be located in the exhibition hall of the conference, which will be open at these days:

Tuesday, April 25, 2006
10:00AM – 4:30PM
6:00PM – 7:30PM (Sponsor Reception)
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
10:00AM – 5:00PM

So you should be available for representing your project at these times.

[akede]

Thx LenZ for posting.

I can confirm that Joomla! will be on the MySQL Conference most likely represented by our core team member Robert Schely. If you are interested to meet us there you will find more details very soon on this site.

If you could be on the expo and support us representing this wonderful project please get in contact with either me or Robert.

Cheers

Alex

[akede]

Hi all,

as MySQL conf is comming up with huge steps anybody else there who might be interested in joining us there?

Alex

[friesengeist]

Ok, as MySQL Conference took place a little bit more than three weeks ago, it's about time to finally write a short report about it...

Rob and I have been at the .org pavilion, presenting Joomla! to the interested audience. We met on Sunday evening - that was the first time I ever got into contact with Rob in person. It's very nice to finally get to know the people who you work together with all the time but only know from Skype and mailing lists!

On Monday we prepared our booth (unfortunaltely, I forgot to take some pictures, sorry). Actually, we were the first project from the .org pavilion to arrive, and therefore we got to choose the place which fitted best for us. There were twelve more projects in the .org pavilion, and I've have spoken to people from some of those projects during the next days. I wanted to check out the Drupal project on Wednesday (I've never worked with Drupal, thought I would take a look at their system), but they didn't return to their booth on Wednesday

Tuesday and Wednesday were the days when the exhibit hall opened it's doors for the public. We had many visitors, from very different backgrounds: people who had no idea what a CMS is, as well as people who were asking when 1.5 is to come out. Fortunately, that was the minority though - only a handful, I had expected many more of those questions. Overall feedback was really good, people really liked the new look of the 1.5 back-end. We also showed 1.0 to those who wanted to see it, or those who had specific questions about it. The nicest thing that happened was that one guy just stopped by to say "thanks, I really appreciate what you are doing". Interestingly, the question which I heard most often was about the business model of Joomla! - it usually took some time to explain to people that Joomla! is a non-profit project. Another question raised a few times was how Joomla! compared to Alfresco (an Enterprise Content Management System, they also had a booth at the MySQL Conf).

Rob and I also went to some of the sessions when there was time (especially in the morning, when the exhibit hall was not opened yet). Rob really wanted to see Eben Moglen's session, and I enjoyed Rasmus Lerdorf's session on security and profiling very much.

All in all, it was a really nice event, and it was good to meet Rob in person. I think that we have led some new people to Joomla!. Next time I'll not forget to take some pictures...

[ibnhafsun]

Thanks a lot for sharing, friesengeist.