First Ever UK Joomla Developers Conference

I have been talking to my wife about hosting a Joomla Developers conference in October and I wanted to float the idea and get some feedback from others.

The conference would be aimed at those developers with existing PHP/MySQL knowledge (We would not be teaching how to use PHP!) who wish to learn how to code Joomla Components/Mambots/Modules. The conference would be hosted near to the M5 motorway in the UK for easy access and would be over two or three days (Accomodation is cheap at Junction 9 or the M5 motorway)

The aim of the conference would be for attendees to learn the basics of Joomla component development hands on, how to use the basic Joomla API (Database class, Mainframe methods, patTemplate, user sessions, Mambots Functions etc…) and would have some indepth and intensive sessions involving code and examples. The conference would cover development in 1.0.10+ but we can also touch on Joomla 1.5 code.
This would be a great opportunity for some to meet myself, Phil Taylor, one of the original Mambo core developers and the first ever Mambo (now Joomla) Custom Commercial Component Developer (A long title!).

In order to make the conference viable we would need to have 20-40 attendees, each paying a yet-to-be-determined fee (To include accomodation - we would arrange that for you!!). If you would be interested please comment on the blog post and we will add you to our mailing list for when we have more information. If there is good interest we would hope to have confirmed dates and venue by July 31st.

This is for developers only - people who can already code a little in PHP, not people who know no code! (Just making sure you understand).

So feel free to provide your feedback!