In a couple of weeks there's going to be an important Joomla Developer Conference in New York.

Starting with a social evening on the Friday 4th, the conference itself is a two-dayer over the weekend of the 5th and 6th. There's also a hands-on development event on Monday.

The location is beautiful: the Faculty House at Columbia University.

• Click here for full hotel and attendee information.
• Click here to register for the two day conference.

Who Will Be There?

• Louis Landry, Sam Moffatt, Ian MacLennan, Mark Dexter (The four Joomla development coordinators)
• Andrew Eddie
• Hannes Papenberg (1.6 release team)
• Aaron Newton (Mootools team)

There's also going be a large group of 3rd party developers in attendance, including:

• Andy Miller from Rocket Theme
• Oliver Razesberger from Kunena
• Steve Pignatro from CorePHP
• Donald Lobo and Brian Shaughnessy from the CiviCRM project
• Rob Clayburn from Fabrikar
• Andrea Tarr from Marlboro College Graduate School
• Peter Nurse and Dex Randall from Australia
• Altansuck T from Mongolia

Me? I've been told I'm babysitting that weekend but the conference will be streamed live online for those of us who can't be there.

Friday Schedule

There's a social event at the House of Brews at 302 West 51st Street (yes they do have the world's worst website). The evening organized together with a Drupal (boo! hiss!) conference happening in New York at the same time.

Saturday Schedule

• Conference Opening
• Unpacking the new features in Joomla 1.6:
  
  • API changes
  • Access controls
  • JForm
  • Nested sets
  • Implications for upgrading
• Lunch
• Mootools
• Lighting talks
• Labs: New ways to collaborate
• Question time panel (whole group) Louis, Sam, Ian, Aaron, Adrew Mark, Hannes

Sunday Schedule

• Tools and deployment
• Breaks out sessions and lightning talks:
  • Accessibility
  • Mootools
  • Unit Testing
  • Templating with 1.6
  • Integration across extensions
  • Marketing Joomla

• Lunch
• The business of Open Source software
• 1.7 and beyond
• Conference Close