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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.

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.

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

the idea of a course is a good idea though.

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

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

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?

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

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

Great idea!

Count me in.

What about getting together in-person?

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

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?

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??

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...

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.