They say less is more. Tell that to African people, they know all about it. Non-profit organisations struggle with the same statement, they need good-looking, effective websites. Can they afford it? Of course yes! We'll show you how eventually Africa and Joomla! can come up with sites that are as good and even better than the European websites... We will be looking at African websites and Belgian based websites. These all have high traffic (600GB per month for one), user interaction, plenty of customization both design and template, several languages and lots of articles. We will cover the following in the presentation: Communication challenges, Client wants vs Client needs, Challenges of the technical elements added to the site, Why these organisations use open source systems, Why we have chosen to use Joomla as a Tools for developing websites, What we would like to see for the future of Joomla. And of course some images so you can see the examples of what we have worked with...

5. Comparison
AFRICA EUROPE
Bandwidth Most accounts capped at 3GB. Unlimited (in theory ;)
Unlimited accounts offered but you
need to do more than 17GB.
Speed 512k - 4MB 16Gb+
Infrastructure 2 sea cables along the West Cost of All over the place
Africa. 1 sea cable up the East coast of
Africa.
Gov regulation Telecommunications are state owned Overall lots of competition, there are
and regulated by a standard authority differences by region and countries.
Regulation exists but deregulation is
what's coming
Hardware 6 to 8 months before it hits ZA Quick penetration
(marketing delay?)

8. sagoodnews.co.za

9. SA The Good News
sagoodnews.co.za
Technical
- Joomla! version 1.0
- Many modules to achieve the solution
- Driven off Joomla core content
Challenges
- No modules available
- SEF Nightmare
- Hackers delight
- Migrating to Joomla 1.5 ?
Statistics
- 70.000 + users per month
- 5 Editors

11. World Health Organisation
Regional Office for Africa
afro.who.int
Technical
- Joomla! version 1.5
- Joomfish
- DocMan, EventList, Menu System, Training
Challenges
- Language & SEF Nightmare
- Cross Browser & Multi-template
- Shared vs Dedicated servers
- Communication & Web access
Statistics
- 90.000 + users per month
- Approaching 800GB Traffic

14. CDCS-CMDC asbl
Documentation Centrum, attached to Brussels Gov
www.cdcs-cmdc.be
Technical
- Joomla! version 1.5
- Joomfish
- Menu system
Challenges
- Language & SEF Nightmare
- Content
- Procedures
Statistics
- 6 contributors
- Few people on site but better then before

17. Hospichild
Information around the hospitalization of children
www.hospichild.be
Technical
- Joomla!
- Joomfish, 3 languages, K2
Challenges
- Content and migration
- Why Joomla! ? What will it improve?
- Expectations (Lyon, Canada, Geneva UN)
Statistics
- 12000 + users per month
- 5 years on air

18. What have we learned?
- Communication is key
- KISS Strategy when dealing with large websites
- Design vs Technical selling
- Better clarification on content
What we would have liked ?
- NO IE6!
- CCK, revolutionized content creation and control
- Faster internet connection
- more beer and cheese...