Sandbox

Got some cake left. I can put it in the post

nope thats ok keep the cake fella.....just get Igor to send me that template with the multi layout option....drool 

Just had a quick chat with Igor, he told me about the *great* event. I whish I could be there.. maybe next year (please tell me you plan to make it every year!!)

Yes the plan is to make this an annual event and next year will be even bigger and better. Already started the planning....

Yep, this event was great; really useful and a great time. As someone said earlier, 1.5 does look really exciting - there seem to be some incredible "under the bonnet" changes, as well as surface ones. Thanks to Brian for organising this and err....see you all next year!

p.s. looking forward to the Joomla! 2.0 preview next year

-Nathaniel

Brian, thanks for getting this organised mate, solo or not you did a first class job. Thanks for putting me up with a bed and say Hi to Dave. Also, thanks to all the speakers, you have more courage than I, it was very interesting.

A firt report is here http://www.joomla.org/content/view/1682/42/ thnks for writing that Matthew

Changed the amount of memory for the j.org server from 4 megs to 4 Gigs on the news item.

Spot On!

What a way to make my FIRST post other than to say that Joomla! Day was FANTASTIC!

I'm fairly new to this Joomla! marlakey and have been really enjoying it, but previously had no real feel for how strong the Community is - meeting some of the biggest players was a real eye-opener!

As mentioned in the great day report http://www.joomla.org/content/view/1682/42/, there was a great turnout and it was really exciting to get a proper tour of Joomla! 1.5!

Met some really nice people and have a LOAD of emails to send out now - not only was Joomla! Day great training but it was fantastic networking!

Thanks again to Brian and thanks to absolutely everybody that has had a hand in getting Joomla! to the big 1st birthday! (terrible two's next!)

Echoing Mark's comments above really - I just wanted to add my 20p to the conversation.

It was a real pleasure to meet you guys, I had an amazing time getting to know more about Joomla, eating stupid amounts of Chinese, drinking more cans of RedBull than I do when I go out on the town for the evening and talking geek (my all time favorite language).

Brian - thanks for spending all the time to organise the event, I can't stress enough exactly how important I feel it was.  Thanks must also goto each and every one of the speakers - you guys kept me interested and informed throughout.

Hope to see you all again really soon!  Anyone got any photos?

Oh, and now I really can't wait to get my hands on a FINAL version of 1.5

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Sorry - I couldnt make it, but there were a couple of issues keeping me away...

• family demands
• Leeds is a long way for me.. especialy as I didnt know how popular an event it was going to be (Couldnt face the 200 + mile drive to meet half a dozne geeks in a pub! - if only I had know.)
  
• I am a nooby user of Joomla, with no PHP or MySQL experience (yet) so felt I would be out of my depth, listening to experts talking 'geek'

Any way - my loss.

Glad it went ok - and look forward to reading more on the event (I hope there will be a report on the information shared!!)

GreenBoy
Cake and a Sing Song? Sounds all very Enid Blyton!

Tonie wrote:Changed the amount of memory for the j.org server from 4 megs to 4 Gigs on the news item.

Oops

What a great weekend we had in Leeds at the UK Joomla day! Thanks to all those that attended and for the feedback received. (Thanks also to the guy that wanted me to sign his T-Shirt ! :-S Strange :-) )

A lot of people have asked for the presentation to be released, therefore I have made PDF, digitaly signed, available for free download.

You can download the presentation from here:

http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2006/07/31/ ... sentation/

Hey guys

Great weekend at Leeds! Very well organised Brian, congratulations! Dave thanks for the accomodation.

I have taken a few pics with my cheap and broken camera:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/56886033@N00/tags/joomla/

Does anyone have a picture of me? hehehe

Igor

Thanks again Brian for all of the work you put into the organisation of yesterday’s event. I will be sure to shoot an email over to you today with a copy of my presentation.

It was certainly a great day and being able to meet everyone who had previously only been forum names was fantastic.

I hope everyone has a good trip home. I got back around 9PM last night.

- Chris

A Hearty thank you to Brian for all his work in organising the joomla day and starting the proceedings so well, a hello to all the fellow joomlaites that I met there and special thanks to Chis , Barrie, Igor, Phil and Johan for their presentations. A thoroughly good weekend, see you all next year. gws

The only thing that upset me was... Igor didn't match Barrie's offer of a 50% discount 

- Chris

I will forward this request to Porsche Brazil and see what they can do for us. 

Rochen wrote:The only thing that upset me was... Igor didn't match Barrie's offer of a 50% discount 

- Chris

Ahahahahah!

Keep us ALL posted on that one, Igor - mine'll go on eBay if you can sort THAT one out! 

I'd just like to add my thanks to Brian. It was a great day with a perfect balance of topics. I look forward to next year's!

haha

first draft report of the day now online. i will bed photos and pdf of the presentations tomorrow. i had to leave in a rush

Some photos (courtesy of Peter Russell) and presentation pdfs now online

Hey Brian!

I was just wondering where to read the draft reports...

http://www.joomlatraining.org.uk/joomla-day



I also have written my report for Joomla! Brazil website. For those who can read portuguese:

http://www.joomla.com.br/index.php?opti ... &Itemid=58

Igor

brian wrote:first draft report of the day now online. i will bed photos and pdf of the presentations tomorrow. i had to leave in a rush

pdf are linked inside the part 2 report

Oops there were some broken links to the pdfs but they should be fixed now

Forgot to say I had a thoroughly interesting and inspiring day, well done to the organisers, looking forward to 1.5 and Joomla Day 2007.

It is nearly a year since this great day - is anyone organising another one???

I am more than happy helping.

plans are in progress

Excellent stuff - consider this a register of interest Brian!