New York, NY, - September 8, 2015- Joomla, one of the world’s most popular open source content management systems (CMS) used for everything from websites to blogs to custom apps to Intranets, is delighted to be supporting the Pacific Northwest PHP Conference as a Gold Sponsor.

The Pacific Northwest PHP Conference will be held in Seattle, Washington from September 10-12 and holds interest for PHP web developers of all skill levels. This is the first year that the event is being held and is already booked to capacity at 250 attendees. Live Streaming passes are available to those that cannot attend in person.

Joomla will be represented at the event by Jessica Dunbar, Joomla PLT Member, and Chad Windnagle, a veteran contributor to Joomla. Jess and Chad will be available at a booth at the conference to speak with developers about how they can use Joomla for their projects, and how they can get involved. They’ll also have printed literature and Joomla SWAG available.

Jessica Dunbar explains “This conference gives us the opportunity to support another open source community. We will have opportunity to collaborate with PHP developers .”

Jessica Dunbar noted the benefit of Joomla’s participation at the Pacific Northwest PHP Conference “Taking an active part as both a Gold Sponsor with a booth showcasing Joomla and at the UnCon sessions gives us a great opportunity to show what Joomla can do for websites, developers and how they can contribute to Joomla. I feel Joomla’s presence will benefit everybody.”

About Joomla!

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