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When and Where?
UTS, Haymarket, Sydney, Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th November 2011 - see the site for more details
Who is Sydney JoomlaDay 2011 for?
The conference will bring together everyone from the lead development team to community developers, designers and end users.
Whatever your experience, Sydney JoomlaDay is full of practical, valuable insights, education and inspiration, networking opportunities, and much more. The cost for the Saturday Conference is $99.
The Speakers
This year’s conference features renowned speakers including core developer Andrew Eddie, and other leading experts.
Workshops
Sydney JoomlaDay will feature on Sunday several half day workshops from leading experts at bargain prices of $50 to $150.
Become a Sponsor
We have a range of sponsorship packages to suit your objectives and budget starting from as little as $100. See our sponsorship package here.
Tickets
There is no physical ticket! We've gone eco-friendly this year - minimal printing. Just purchase your ticket online and turn up with your ID on the day. On Saturday, the conference ticket includes refreshments. On Sunday, tickets to the workshops need to be purchased separately. The half day workshops price does not include food or drink, so you will need to forage for it at the nearby local establishments.
Moodle 2.0, which is a learning management system, has been released and it contains a lot of large new features, some completely rewritten, and hundreds of bug fixes.
Major new features include:
Community hubs, Repository support, Portfolio support, Course completion and prerequisites, Conditional activities, Cohorts, Web services support, New blocks and Plagiarism prevention
Major improvements to existing core features include:
Backup and restore, Blocks, Blogs, Comments, Enrolment plugins, File handling, Filters 2.0, HTML editor, Messaging, My Moodle page, Navigation, Ratings, Roles and permissions, RSS feeds, Themes, Translation system, User profile pages
Major improvements to activity modules include:
Lesson, Quiz module and question bank, Resource, SCORM, Wiki and Workshop
YWS is happy to upgrade your Moodle 1.9 site to Moodle 2 for $350 (excluding GST). Your site DB will be backed up and the upgrade trialled before your main site is converted.
There are a number of ways to stream video to your audience. Got a film under 15 minutes and want it to be public then it is very hard to go past Youtube as the site is popular and hosting is free. What if your video is longer than 15 minutes and it's all your own work well then you can choose between Vimeo or Viddler which are also free but the material must not be for commercial gain. There have been stories of companies on Vimeo having their videos removed because they were commercial. Vimeo has a paid service for less and $100 a year and while this gives more functionality it still mustn't be commercial videos.
YWS is happy to announce that the elearning component JoomlaLMS 1.0.7 is on the way! The release is scheduled for the end of July 2010. The upcoming version is going to have many significant and long-awaited improvements and functions that you suggested implementing. Just take a look at the brief roadmap that lists only the major innovations:
This is a free monthly group in Sydney for users of the Joomla content management system. There are hundreds of Joomla users, web designers, web developers and Joomla contributors in Sydney and this group meetup is a chance for them to learn and share their Joomla experiences.
This meetup is perfect for newbies, expert Joomla developers, web designers, web managers and anyone wanting to learn more about Joomla.
Meetings:
The group meets on the second Tuesday of every month except January, from 6pm to 8:30pm
Venue:
InterfaceFLOR, 101 Chalmers Street, Surrey Hills, Sydney. Google Map: http://bit.ly/bbrPHF
Directions:
From Central station, take the Devonshire Street exit. InterfaceFLOR building is first building on the right. Reception is on right hand side near train tracks. Best to arrive by public transport (it's right next to Central station) as street parking is limited.
Refreshments: Pizza and beer at half time, for a small contribution.
Community/Forum: Join our community site joomla.org.au
To join the meeting notify us out our Meetup site http://www.meetup.com/Joomla-User-Group-Sydney/
The LearnX Asia Pacific experience is dynamic, daring and refreshingly different from other events in the region. It all began as a one day national conference in 2005, with several presenters bravely spreading their knowledge to a relatively small elearning community. Since that time the event has evolved, diversified its content and increased its capacity to an international platform. LearnX now has dozens of speakers delivering an incomparable choice of topics, linked to strategic tracks, to hundreds of delegates over two days. It truly is a remarkable experience.
- Come and visit YWS at LearnX Stand 21 June 9th and 10th 2010 Darling Habour Sydney
