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UiTM ICT Conference 2018
UiTM ICT Conference 2018 was held on 08-09 November 2018 at the Shah Alam Convention Centre and attended by all UiTM F scheme staffs throughout Malaysia, as well as UiTM Senior Management Council Members, including Dean, Heads of Division and Campus Directors.
Our trainer, Sam Suresh was invited to give a talk in two different tracks which are Track 3: System & Application and Track 4: Collaborations and Productions.
Track 3: System & Application was presented on the first day with the topic: Progressive Web Apps (PWA).
PWAs are web applications that load like regular web pages or websites but can offer the user functionality such as working offline, push notifications, and device hardware access traditionally available only to native applications.
On the second day , with topic Best Practices of Website Management in Track 4 (Collaborations & Productions).
MU DOT MY PLT booth also has been opened for exhibitions and promotions throughout this 2 days conference.
Judge for Malaysian Website Awards (WMA)
Malaysia Website Awards 2018 (MWA) is a prestigious website awarding program which was organised by Exabytes Group of Companies, a Leading Web Hosting Provider in Southeast Asia.
They seek to recognise and reward the outstanding performance, talent and effort of the best web developers, web designers and web agencies throughout the country. Our trainer, Sam was appointed as the judge for Malaysian Website Awards 2018 (MWA).
Sam is senior technology instructor at MU DOT MY PLT with over 6 years of WordPress teaching experience. He formerly worked for Joomla! CMS Project as Certified Team Leader. Currently, Sam is the WordPress KL Community manager and organises the WordCamps and Meetups at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
JoomlaDay Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2017
On 9 December 2017, Joomla! community has held JoomlaDay Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2017 at Residensi UTMKL. JoomlaDay is a conference of Joomla! community in Kuala Lumpur for a packed, single-day conference. The event was attended by 150 participants. Our leader trainer Sam is the lead organizer for this event for the third time. MU DOT MY PLT is the organizer as well as one of the sponsors at JoomlaDay.
Our trainer, Sam was invited to present a talk on mobile applications. His fascinating topic, ‘Building your first Mobile Application with Joomla! Backend’ made the participants occupying the room during his session. Besides, Sam also presented the opening and closing remarks.
What’s more amazing is, Muhammad Firdaus Ali 16-year-old speaker shared how to build a Joomla website with ‘cloud’ his topic, ‘Joomla! On Cloud’. At such a young age, he has been exploring Joomla and spends some time in this conference to share his knowledge.
Panel Discussion of JoomlaDay KL
The lucky participant during the lucky draw session
Learn while Building Joomla! Website with TIS Tanarata International Schools
TIS Tanarata has sent 4 participants from TIS Tanarata International Schools to join the Joomla! Web Design Project-based Training. This is a refresher course as they have already attended a full training of Joomla! Web Design last year. The training was held over 3 days within 3 months at MU DOT MY PLT.
Joomla! Translation Day (Pek Bahasa ms-MY)
Joomla! Translation Day for Joomla! 3.7 Malay Language pack hosted by Joomla! Community Malaysia will be held on 3 June 2017. This is an online event and anyone can participate from anywhere.
The purpose of this event is to translate new strings of Joomla! 3.7 and release Joomla! 3.7 language pack. Volunteers do not have to be a professional translator to contribute to the translations. All contributors will be listed in joomla.org.my.
For more info, please email to sam@joomla.org.my
Find the event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/203400116841838/
Sam Suresh was appointed as a Team Leader of Joomla! Certification Team
Our trainer, Sam Suresh was appointed as a Team Leader of Joomla! Certification Team effective on May 2017.
The aim of Joomla! Certification Team is to design, deliver and maintain the official Joomla! Certification Program. Joomla! Certification Team is a very large team which contributed by volunteers and composed by 4 working groups as sub teams: Certification Exam Team, Certification Marketing Team, Certification Operations Team (COT) and Certification Platform Team (CPT).
Currently, Sam Suresh are involved in following Joomla! teams:
Check out Sam Suresh’s profile on Joomla! Volunteers Portal™.
Malaysia Open Source Conference 2017
Malaysia Open Source Conference 2017 (MOSCMY 2017) will be held on 17th May until 19th May 2017 at University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor. MOSCMY is the largest “Teh Tarik Session” for open source community in Malaysia. This event gathers CEOs and leaders, vendors, consultants, associations and regulators from Malaysia and around the world to address mutual challenges and share information on Open Source Software. MOSCMY 2017 theme is “Open Source in Financial Services” to explore the Open Source software and technology at the Enterprise environment to be used worldwide.
Joomla! Super Sprint London 2017
On January 20, 2017, Sam Suresh arrived at Heathrow Airport. The time difference between Malaysia and London is 8 hours and the trip takes 14 hours. According to him, the City of London City is a wonderful city and there are many attractions and historical sites to visit.
Sam Suresh shared his experience visiting some interesting places that are found in London City. In London, there is the hop-on-hop-off service bus (HOHO bus), where the bus will take passengers to see and visit interesting places in London

The temperature in London

HOHO bus route map.
Throughout the Joomla! Super Sprint, they have made great progress in the certification platform. Among them, Michael Snoeren has done a rewrite certification of the user directory with more new features. In addition, LMS engine upgraded to the latest version and URL rewriting is now active. Hosting PHP short account is upgraded to PHP 7 and compatibility tested on both of Joomla! and LMS engine.

Student dashboard for JLPS

Certified directory profiles with social sharing and Profile URLs are SEF friendly.

Live exam status dashboard for supervisors who monitor the exams.
Besides MU DOT MY PLT Trainer, Sam Suresh, Super Sprint has also been accompanied by Michael Snoeren and Chris Keen from Netherlands and a few other members of his team. Assistance given from each team member has a positive impact and achieve the desired objectives successfully
Joomla! Code Sprint 2017 – Sam Suresh going to London January 19, 2017

Our professional trainer, Mr Sam Suresh has received the invitation from Joomla! to go to London on 19th until 24th January 2017 to attend Joomla! code sprint! in order to develop Joomla! and work with different teams face to face.
The code sprint is a special session in which a group of Joomla! Developers gather at a geographical location and work in developing code for the Joomla! project.
According to Sam, Sam and his team will update its management system and improve the existing system.
MU DOT MY PLT hope that Joomla! Code Sprint 2017 went well and got great success and may be implemented in Malaysia in the future.
MU DOT MY PLT organises JoomlaDay Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 2016 for the second year
This year JoomlaDay Malaysia 2016 was held on 13th August at Microsoft Malaysia, KLCC, Kuala Lumpur. This event brings together Joomla! enthusiasts, experts, educators, and influencers.
This year event attracted more than 200 participants from all over Malaysia. This event was sponsored by Joomshaper, MU DOT MY PLT, Microsoft, Astiotech and OpenSourceMatters.
This event was fully managed by MU DOT MY PLT.
This year speakers featured Tessa Mero, Sam Suresh, Sanjay Willie and Dinesh Nair and other local speakers.
Topics covered including Joomla! And Mobile Apps for Joomla Development, Security and Performance Monitoring of Joomla, Learning APIs, Cloud and The Hidden Secrets of Joomla by Sam Suresh.
