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Everyone (Chris, Hagen, RobS, Louis, Joe LeBlanc, Jason, Alex, Andy and myself) got here safely - some have more interesting stories than others about the actual trip - but, that is behind us! 

At this exact moment, we are all listening to Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP. He gave a brief history of how he created PHP, is discussing performance and now talking about security. He is a laid back speaker and very interested in the success of our OSCMS projects.

The opening speaker gave special recognition to Joomla! rallying together people to attend - so that was nice! 

I posted a few pictures for your viewing pleasure out on http://www.flickr.com/groups/joomla/.

Go Joomla! ~ Go Open Source!
Amy

Thanks for sharing

Amy! Pay attention to Rasmus - You shouldn'tbe posting while he is talking...

erm.. forget I said that.

Amy uploaded a new picture - very nice and I can say it fits to reality.

The first talks have been hold and Hangen did a great job to introduce to a quite big audience the Joomla! project. Not always nicely for the core team but actually this is his job.

The interesting thing is that the conference is more like a end user conference then a developer summit talking about geeky stuff. I like it quite much.

Alex

Hi all,

a small report about the event from my side.

The event location was pretty amazing. The class rooms had been directly at the Yahoo campus and the group of people basically filled the whole area. About 250 people attending this event and other than planed much more non-developers showed up.

The presentations done by several of members of the Joomla! community and team have not been totally filled as we always kind a competed against the sessions from other CMS. However we had really good discussions and also got some interesting feedback from the people attending.

Pictures of the whole event can be found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/joomlaoscms/


The real developer talks happened in the lobby of the training center. There we spoke to Rasmus, Dries, Boris and all the others which had been around. Several smaller topics have been discussed and some solutions have been found during the event.

For the next year I really would like to see a bit more preparation time which then also might help to get a broader variety OS CMS project to the event. In my opinion this will also help to increase the number of dev talks and may be lead to solutions we can accomplish together.

Thanks specially to Angie Byron and Boris Mann that helped us on some last minute organizational things.

Alex

Will you guys be posting the slides of your talks somewhere for those of us who couldnt travel to the USA??

To answer my own postI found these two

Hagen Graf - Joomla an Overview - http://www.bloghouse.org/files/Hagen_Graf_Joomla.pdf
A very good summary fo the state of the project

Rasmus Lerdorf - PHP Performance and Security - http://talks.php.net/show/oscms07

Joseph LeBlanc - Writing Joomla! Extensions - powerpoint slides

Joomla! v 1.5 Templates Thanks to all, especially to Alex for organizing. It was a great event! 

Thanks for adding your presentation Amy. Just need to get the rest of them now.

Here is my presentation about the Multilingual content within a CMS.

Alex

Thanks ALex. just a few more to go

The drupal talks are all available online here http://drupal.org/events/oscms2007

There are some very interesting ones.

Mine has been posted here: http://jakendall.coolacid.net/my-talks/ ... it-2007/72

If the SEO keeps working. Else just goto my site and go under my talks, and find the link.

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If it doesn't, feel free to contact one of our developers, directly. 

What do your developers do? and why would I contact them when I can just contact the Joomla! Developers? =p

(Make a smart comment, expect a smart comeback!)

Be nice. Go fix a bug before you are gone for awhile and of no value to us. (OK. I'm done.)