Joomla! Day Las Vegas - John Lennon

Past weekend the Joomladay Las Vegas was held and we want to thank all who attended for making Joomla Day Las Vegas the success that it was! After a few technical snafus on Friday, we had an unbelievable series of classes and sessions that were educational, uplifting, or just plain interesting. We learned a lot about the community and its needs, and we will see some of those ideas implemented over the coming months. Starting with a group exercise that got the crowd moving, talking and thinking, Gunner kept the energy high and the solid information flowing. We had excellent user and presenter-led breakout sessions on such topics as (and this is not a complete list): * Templating * Development of extensions * Developing the core code * Use of the Joomla framework * CCK--comparison of ZOO and K2 * Joomla SxSW showdown site with Steve Fisher * Kunena with Oliver Ratzesburger * Google Open Source Programs and Summer of Code with Leslie Hawthorn * Event calendars * Community building * eCommerce * SEO * Performance and hosting * Security * The future of Joomla (1.6 and beyond) * and the ever popular "Stump Louis" (he remains unstumped)

We hope the Joomladay attendees had the same awesome time as I did, and hope to see you next year. Before I start thanking people, realize that like a good Oscar acceptance speech... people are forgotten because the speaker is so overwhelmed with gratitude. Toni Mari (who wrote most of this blog) is overwhelmed with gratitude for your enthusiastic participation in this event, I can only second this since this Joomladay was really mindblowing!

Thank you to Oliver Ratzesburger, Cory Webb, Steve Fisher, TJ Baker and all the other ad-hoc presenters who traveled to Las Vegas on their own just to contribute and enhance our event.

We are forever in the debt of Louis Landry, Rob Schley, Elin Waring, Anthony Ferrara, Mark Dexter, Ryan Ozimek, Steve Burge, Victor Drover, Aaron St. George and Ron Severdia for the ultra-strong working group/dev team/OSM showing. Our attendees had access to a wealth of deep project knowledge.

Thank you to Gunner and his team of Mike and Matt, who made Joomla Day energetic and yet organized. Gunner kept us on track when it seemed impossible. Gunner came highly recommended and he and the team did not disappoint. Let's everyone shoot out some positive vibes that we can coax him back! It won't hurt to throw a little love at the PCBSD folks who made sure we were flush with attractive headgear.

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