The first Joomla!Day in New Zealand will take place in the Massey University in Albany which is north of Auckland. The university offered their Sir Neil Waters Lecture Theatre and this venue is perfect place to meet all alltogether. Already 40 members of the community have registered and there are still some last minute seats available.

Paul Gutch (aka eportalnz) and many others from the NZ community prepared this exiting event. From Australia Shayne Bartlett (aka manuman) from the Joomla! core team and Andrew Eddie (aka masterchief), Joomla! lead developer will come over and present the latest information about Joomla! 1.5.

Venue: Massey University Albany - Sir Neil Waters Lecture Theatre
Time: 15th December 2007, starting at 9.00 AM
Site: http://joomladay.org.nz

Possible topics within the unconference style of this day are:

• Search Engine Optimisation - Joomla SEO Tips and Best Practice.
• Joomla eCommerce options including Payment Systems. Which one?
• Joomla 1.5 Migration - How to make the move painlessly.
• Commercial Open Source Business Model - Making a living in the OSCommunity.
• Templates - Joomla! 1.5 New Features and how to make the most them.
• Community Websites and Joomla! - Forums, Blogs, Comments, RSS, Ratings, Chat and Podcasting.
• Joomla in Schools - Learning Management System and ePortfolio solutions.
• Tools for Development of Joomla Templates and Content.
• Events Management, Calendars and Reservations.
• Niche markets and Joomla!.
• Outsourcing & Joomla Freelancers - Where to go for help with your project.
• Advertising Delivery with Joomla - How to display and track your ads.
• Statistics - Google Analytics and other Joomla based Stats extensions.
• Link Directories - Current and future options.
• Joomla Community in NZ - JUGS - Joomla Users Group's - Start one in your area! 

For more information please contact Paul or post in the forum thread http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,208802.0.html.