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Thoughts about target audience, agenda and speakers
Hi all,
I had quite some thoughts in the last weeks about who will attend the event, or better whom we will focus at that they can attend. The background of these thoughts is the feedback we got on the last JoomlaDay in Germany as well as my personal observations. So I like to share these thoughts to get some feeling if the situation here in Germany is similar in other countries or regions.
A JoomlaDay has the intention to bring the regional community together on one spot. Making it possible for the people to meet in real life while be working in the virtual world normally. The past experience was that the attendees are mostly members of the Joomla community in that region and may be some additional people which are interested in the Joomla CMS but not yet members of the community. We attract very rare people that have never been in contact with Joomla yet.
On the last event we had feedback indicating that Joomla is really grown in Germany and far more mature that we might have thought. Especially on the business and community day the people expected real practical classes/sessions like "how to setup a template?", "how to make my site secure?", "how to develop my first extension?" rather than the high level development sessions in which people talk about the new features Joomla will include sometimes in future. So basically people expected a training track on how to use Joomla rather than see the developers of the project or international people.
My personal thought was: Should we give every day a topic rather than saying it is a business day or community day?
The idea I have is, that we e.g. say:
- on day 1 we talk about Joomla based website in general. With e.g. 3 tracks such as "SME websites", "social media or community websites", "high profile/load websites".
- on day 2 we talk about Joomla extensions and addons, Tracks could be "extend my Joomla site with existing modules", "Special purpose extensions such as shops, community and ...", "Developing of extensions; best practice"
It would be great if you can give me some feedback about your region and may be the events you had in the past. I would be very interested to learn about the other JoomlaDays world wide and your experience with the audience and what they like to listen too.
Thanks
Alex
I had quite some thoughts in the last weeks about who will attend the event, or better whom we will focus at that they can attend. The background of these thoughts is the feedback we got on the last JoomlaDay in Germany as well as my personal observations. So I like to share these thoughts to get some feeling if the situation here in Germany is similar in other countries or regions.
A JoomlaDay has the intention to bring the regional community together on one spot. Making it possible for the people to meet in real life while be working in the virtual world normally. The past experience was that the attendees are mostly members of the Joomla community in that region and may be some additional people which are interested in the Joomla CMS but not yet members of the community. We attract very rare people that have never been in contact with Joomla yet.
On the last event we had feedback indicating that Joomla is really grown in Germany and far more mature that we might have thought. Especially on the business and community day the people expected real practical classes/sessions like "how to setup a template?", "how to make my site secure?", "how to develop my first extension?" rather than the high level development sessions in which people talk about the new features Joomla will include sometimes in future. So basically people expected a training track on how to use Joomla rather than see the developers of the project or international people.
My personal thought was: Should we give every day a topic rather than saying it is a business day or community day?
The idea I have is, that we e.g. say:
- on day 1 we talk about Joomla based website in general. With e.g. 3 tracks such as "SME websites", "social media or community websites", "high profile/load websites".
- on day 2 we talk about Joomla extensions and addons, Tracks could be "extend my Joomla site with existing modules", "Special purpose extensions such as shops, community and ...", "Developing of extensions; best practice"
It would be great if you can give me some feedback about your region and may be the events you had in the past. I would be very interested to learn about the other JoomlaDays world wide and your experience with the audience and what they like to listen too.
Thanks
Alex
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Javier Gómez on -
Brian Teeman said:Definitely agree with you and we have two "social" activities planned.
Great! If I can help on that just tell me.
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Permalink Reply by Javier Gómez on
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I like the idea, but actually I think that there is still a very important difference between the community members and those who meet Joomla! for first time. And the second group is big, at least in Spain.
I think that the business/community day is an internal way for split the target. So while the organisers easily understand the difference the attendees don't.
In my opinion we need to create activities for the both kind of people that we meet on the Joomla!Days: community member, and the one that has his first contact. But we need to communicate that it in a understandable way, so I totally agree with the idea of a topic for each day.
So I understand that one is an internal definition and the other is a communication action.
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Permalink Reply by Marcos Peebles on -
I think we're all very excited about all this, special thanks to all the pple behind it, great work has been done already and more great things to come, I'm 110% sure. We also could look at Drupalcon San Fransisco 2010 and see what's cooking over there ;)
On a more sad note (frustrated maybe more then sad or a mix of both) they're announcing "1216 Attendees Signed Up" and they're expecting +/- 2000 on being there. I am not blaming or pointing fingers (who am I to do that) but it kinda shows where we the numero uno (yes we, Joomla) is in terms of gathering/community/communication , grrrrrrrrrr
On another hand jab10 is not an "official" OSM/Joomla conference so we should compare what is comparable, nevertheless grrrrrrrrrr
Anyway, hope that the first JAB will be as excited as it looks! Already very nice speakers and proposals :)
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