From the highest point in the tallest building in Santiago, Chile, Joomla!Day Chile provided South America's Spanish-speaking community the first Joomla!Day of it's kind on January 18, 2011.  With sweeping views of Santiago and the great Andes mountains, Joomla users, developers, and designers from across Chile participated in one of the largest Joomla!Days I've ever attended.  Guest speakers arrived from across the country, the United Kingdom, Spain, and the US to share in this special occassion.

Nearly 500 attendees packed the auditorium at Telefonica Chile in downtown Santiago during a beautiful summer's day.  While the main auditorium hosted the morning's events, the afternoon's sessions took place at the top of the skyscraper, with gorgeous views of Santiago while soaking in the Joomla love.

Best yet, this was the first Joomla!Day ever to showcase the distribution of diplomas to the students of Universidad de Chile, whom successfully completed 160 hours of coursework to receive their certificates.  It would be great to see other universities around the world follow in the footsteps of the Universidad de Chile, and I hope that future Joomla!Days can highlight the success of students around the world studying our community's software.

On Tuesday, 18 January 2011, for the first time ever from the Joomla Community Livestream channel, a Joomla! Day will be broadcast live.  Joomla! Day Chile has requested the ability to provide free access world-wide to the event.  Starting at 7am EST and continuing to 4:30pm EST the sold-out crowd will be accessible anywhere in the world!  Visit the channel and subscribe for alerts to this event today:  http://www.livestream.com/joomlacommunity  If you are an event coordinator for an upcoming Joomla! Day and would like your event broadcast as well on this channel, please post your request in this forum.

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All times are EASTERN STANDARD TIME.  Look for the icon in the chart below for the portions of the even that will be broadcast live!

MORNING PROGRAM

Schedules 7:00 to 11:30 HRS.   Place Telefónica's main auditorium (Floor 1)  

7:00 to 7:30 Accreditation Assistant     Main Auditorium Closing Doors  

7:30 to 7:35 Organizers Welcoming Remarks  

7:35 to 7:40 Greeting Telefónica SA  

7:40 to 7:45 Remarks by Mr. Dean Faculty of Social Sciences University of Chile  

7:45 to 8:35 Lecture: Ryan Ozimek : The Business Model Joomla! and the Open Source.  

8:35 to 8:55 Coffee Break  

8:55 to 9:40 Conference Brian Teeman : Joomla! 1.6 and the future (Joomla 1.6 and future)  

9:40 to 9:55 National intervention Guest: Guillermo Bravo ("Willin") of Joomla.cl  

Round of presentations of social and commercial enterprises around Joomla!

9:55 to 10:15 Presentation of Alejandro Pacheco , Microsoft.  

10:15 to 10:20 Hardy presentation Hernandez, SA Hostname  

10:20 to 10:25 Presentation Lissa Gianini , Graduate U. Chile - Joomla-Chile.cl  

10:25 to 10:30 Presentation Gerard Martinez, Webempresa (Teleconference)  

10:30 to 10:35 First round of contests and sweepstakes.  

  10:35 to 11:30  Presentation by Javier Gomez of Open Source Matters, Joomla! A collective project.    

11:30 to 11:30 Lunch (available free attendees)  

EVENING PROGRAM

Schedules 14:30 to 18:30 HRS.   Place Telefónica Auditorium Floor 31 and 32
 

Chat Cycle thematic learning about Joomla!  

12:30 to 13:05 Lecture 1 - Creating a template Joomla! from zero. Frank Denis    

13:05 to 13:25 Lecture 2 - Security Joomla. 10 actions suitable for a Joomla! sure. Hugo Baronti    

13:25 to 13:45 Lecture 3 - Experience in corporate internal communications. Joomla! and Intranets. The case of Telefonica Chile. Christian Morales and Alejandro Morgado .    

13:45 to 14:05 Lecture 4 - Management of web development through Wireframes - Developing client-focused. Christopher Pino and Gonzalo Suez .  

2nd Round of Presentations of social and business endeavors around Joomla!  

14:05 to 14:10 Joomleros.cl    

14:10 to 14:15 Pagomaster    

14:15 to 14:20 AdultoMayor.com    

14:20 to 14:25 Tecnologiafacil.com    

14:25 to 14:30 San Joaquin Radio    

14:30 to 14:35 Commercial Passport    

14:35 to 14:40 Siderer    

This weekend is Joomla Day Chile in Santiago. Click here for more information on the event. Congratulations to the organizers: 470 people are going and more than 150 more are on the waiting list.

They are the first event to take part a new tradition we're starting here on Joomla.org: before each Joomla Day around the world we're going feature a great local Joomla site.

For Santiago and Chile we have The Santiago Times: http://www.santiagotimes.cl. The newspaper is the most credible and well-established English-language news source in Chile. It is also part of a larger network of sites, all built on Joomla, that include newspapers for other parts of Chile: The Patagonia Times ( http://www.patagoniatimes.cl ) and The Valparaios Times ( http://www.valparaisotimes.cl ).

The High Court of Australia is the most important court in Australia. Based in Canberra, it is the country's supreme court and final court of appeal.

They have just relaunched their website using Joomla: http://www.hcourt.gov.au. As with some other high-profile Joomla sites we've featured here recently, this design reaches very high standards of accessibility.

One of the primary roles of Open Source Matters (OSM) is to manage financial matters for the Joomla! project. It is our role to make sure that the project is financially secure and able to support the Joomla! community. Here is a high level breakdown of OSM's current finances compared to last year, along with some thoughts on what this all means to you as a member of the Joomla! community.