Joomla Nigeria

Joomla! Day Nigeria 2009: A success

The third edition of the Joomla Day Nigeria event was very successful . You can find the event report at www.joomlang.com .

You can find pictures of the event at :

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=141984&id=503597006 (Pictures from Possicon one of the participant)

Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/34657283@N07/ (more official pictures coming soon)

Visit www.joomlang.com for information about Joomla! Community in Nigeria .

JUG has moved to joomlang.com

Joomla User group Nigeria has now moved to its own dedicated site at www.joomlang.com . Please visit there for information about Joomla! Day Nigeria 2009 and other information about Joomla! in Nigeria .

Joomla Day Nigeria 2008 Invitation

Here is the invitation Email being sent to interested participants of the event

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Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that facilitates the building of websites and other powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla! is an open source solution, freely available to everyone.

Joomla! User Group Nigeria, is organising the second edition of Joomla! Day Nigeria . Our primary goal in this event is to educate others about Joomla!; its benefits, challenges and opportunities.

The details are as follows:

DATE: December, 19 2008
TIME: 3:00pm – 6:00pm
GATE FEE: Free
VENUE : To be Officially Announced*

Please leave a post on this Joomla forum thread so as to be kept updated with more information on this event.
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?p=1491178#p1491178.

You could also email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

You can find more information about past edition of the Joomla Day at Joomla Forum ( http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,186020.0.html) and at Bincom's website (http://www.bincom.net/index.php/JoomlaUserGroup)

We also maintain a Joomla! Forum Thread dedicated to this event at:
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?p=1491178#p1491178.

Please leave a post at the Forum above if you will be attending this event!

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*The venue is tentatively Finicky Restaurant, Jibowu, Yaba, Lagos. This will be confirmed in a few days.

Joomla Day Nigeria 2008

A date has been fixed for this august event.

Friday, December 19 2008.

The plans for the event this year is much bigger than previous event.

The venue will be announced shortly.

Please add a reply to the following thread on the Joomla Forum if you would be interested in:

Attending the event
Making a presentation
Facilitating a Training.

Offficial Forum page for the event: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=342&t=327336

1st Joomla Day Nigeria: Event Review

Exterior View of Guest House

The first Joomla! Day Nigeria held on December 21st, 2007 at University of Lagos Guest House Committee Room C. Half a dozen people were in attendance. This small group cut across developers, power users and potential users.

Two presentations were made by Adesemowo Oyebade, Deputy Group Head [Development] of Bincom.

The first presentation titled “Joomla What?” was a short overview of Joomla. (The PowerPoint Presentation is located here.) A fresh Joomla installation was performed on an apache server to demonstrate the "powers" of Joomla!

The second presentation was about Joomla 1.0.x templates. The structure of a typical J! template was explored. "madeyourweb" was ripped apart for demonstrations. A presentation made by in Joomla Day UK in 2006 was used as a guide.

Questions were asked at the end of both sessions. Vanguard Online Site raised some interest; components used in the deployment were discussed.

Light refreshment was also available. The next edition was announced for the 2nd quarter of 2008.