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I'd recommend an event in Beautiful Queensland!
Do it when the weather is "cooler" in the northern hemisphere and you can all pop "down under" for the event.
Have it in Queensland, which is Andrew Eddie's back yard, and we'd love to put a ripper of a show on for everyone!
That's one reason I was only suggesting a "european" event and not a "global" event.
Of course nothing to stop an Australasian event happening as well ;) Some of us might even brave the 24 hours flight to attend
The blog title "Is it time for an International Joomla Event?" threw me...
Some big regional events totally make sense... Americas, EMEA, Asia/Pac (can you see my ex-Oracle background coming out) and then I'd love to see us all build up to a Joomla!World event...
well I have been talking with Alex about a Three german Region CH/DE/AT about something like .. well I'ts been a while since does talks, and we in the meanwhile are both very busy
First of all, thank you for your excellent presentation!
I didn't know Fotis was driving all the way from Greece. I'll have to thank him for that personally. He has shown an incredible level of commitment. My drive happened to be a 20 minute ride. :)
I was wondering at first why Joomla!Day would be in Bad Nauheim. At first I thought you guys have an Elvis-Connection that I just never heard of before, but when I saw the list of speakers I realized how convenient this place was so that everyone could make it and Bad Nauheim is just outside of Frankfurt so that you don't have to pay ridiculously high fees for accomodation. In addition to this, I wondered how much I missed by not attending Joomla!Day in other countries.
If we put aside that I am currently in the Frankfurt area, I'd like to back up your point that Frankfurt is a very central location for a Joomla event. It's not just the geographic location and the short distance to .be,.nl and .fr, location, but the airports Frankfurt Main and Frankfurt/Hahn along with the central train station and its international connections make it easy to get to Frankfurt.
If there is anything I could contribute to make this happen, I would love to help out and give back to the community. However, I have no experience with the organization of such a real world event.
Joomla!day Europe - now that has a nice ring to it!
This are all important point that need to be addressed for an international (european) JDAY.
Picking a central point is an option, maybe it is also useful to look at statics about the estimated amount of Joomla users in the European countries and try to cover as much as possible. Eg, if we place the marker more in the South it will cover more areas of Spain and Italy, both have quite a lot Joomla users, I think more than Poland.
But I like the idea of Brett as-well!
Here in Brazil we make in this month a nice JoomlaDay but some friends of the audience ask us about it; an international event. For me, a nice idea.
Regards from Brazil
Paulino
PS: Frankfurt is great. I love that city :-D
For me, though, the most important point is that this be driven by community involvement, and community presentations. I'd love to see us do something more like how Drupal handles their International events, where the broader community proposes topics, attendees vote for what they want to attend, and there is an event where we can meet in person on a regular basis.
Now, as convincing as your map and radial imagery are, that central point can be anywhere in this round globe! ;-) This International conference needs to be in Europe, and then in Australia, and then in the newly discovered lands of the Americas, and so on. Eventually, it would be nice to see this twice a year, but realistically, thinking annually would be enough to bite off. (And, actually, your idea of having ONE makes sense, I understand your point.)
If I'm not mistaken, Brian, I believe you kicked off the first ever Joomla! Day in Leeds. It makes a lot of sense to me that you be involved in helping us figure out how to do this internationally. It will be important to involve Ryan and Alex and make certain it's a well orchestrated event involving the right mix of community members, from around the world, and that there is some thought to continuing.
Before you say it, I will, yes, we need one event before we have many. I'm in for Frankfort October 2010. That's a year from now. Let's make it happen.
Joomla, for me at least, is a non-exclusive community with everyone from developers, site builders, designers, integrators, and end users and the event should reflect that mix.
And most importantly of all it should be FUN, FUN, FUN.
So, agree to change the word Developer. I don't want formal, either, so if Conference says that, another word is fine. FUN, FUN, FUN driven by the *people of the community* is perfect.
I'm on-board.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not lead
Just walk beside me and be my friend
Albert Camus
I have made a reservation for a location near Frankfurt for the next Joomla!Day in Germany. The house is perfect for such an event. Many smaller rooms and an over all capacity for 250 attendees. The best is the price, it is so cheap I haven't believed it for minutes. We get this location for 450 Euro/Day! That includes 2 big rooms and 18 smaller rooms, for this price we get the hole location. Rooms for sleeping are also very cheap. I need to check something else but I think the location fits our needs. Dates were 30 May to 1 June, that tree days. I offer this here for the international Event and we make our German Joomla!Day in September.
You will find a german recall for the Joomla Conference on my blog :)
http://blog.blueforce.ch/2009/09/die-zeit-ist-r...
Wolfgang
Cheers
However, Frankfurt is a key place, being one of the largest airports for sure. But my opinion is that such an event should take place in a cheaper place (Germany is quite expensive for East Europeans), which is center of low cost airlines.
Therefore my votes would go for:
a) Prague
b) Budapest
c) Vienna
All of the three are very communicative as well, but flights to there are cheaper and prices there are cheaper
my 2 cents
Germany is perfect for such an event in my opinion - UK as #2. Both countries have well established communities and experience with JoomlaDays. The Frankfurt area is centrally located and easy to get to from anywhere in Europe. I guess the event would be more of a European than an International event, but nevertheless it will be a huge opportunity for everyone.
Doing the conference in English wouldn't be a problem, I think. It would also be a great opportunity to meet all those nice people from the forums, blogs and Twitter that I appreciate so much. The Joomla Community is growing, and even though the local JoomlaDays are very nice, I believe we can learn a lot by crossing borders.
I'm booking a flight as soon as the date is set! :)