(Guest blog post from Mr.Youssoupha Gueye of Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal. This workshop was part of the eIFL-FOSS Skills and Tools Workshops initiative.)

The the Consortium des Bibliothèues de l'Enseignement Supérieur du Sénégal (COBESS) organized a workshop  of training on the administration and the use of content management system (CMS) Joomla from 13 till 17 July 2009 to the University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar.

The opening ceremony was chaired by Mrs M.D. Diop, manager of the central library of the university Cheikh Anta Diop. An expert of Joomla and his assistant splendidly animated the workshop followed by 15 librarians belonging to 11 member establishments of our consortium and activists of the national association.

During five days of the program this later was developed by the trainers.  On Monday there was an overview presentation of CMS Joomla, installation and configuration, introduction to the administration, the management of Joomla.

On Tuesday we made the creation of an arborescence for a Joomla site, the organization of the contents, the creation of the menus, the installation of a Joomla module, of a constituent  and an installation of an extension.

The program of Wednesday concerned the creation, the installation and the use of a Joomla template, the advanced management of the users with Community Builder, and the safety, the maintenance and the protection of the reference data.

The use and the administration of constituents, the administration of newsletter, forum, safety of sites and maintenance of the Joomla CMS was for the program of Thursday.

We ended Friday by focusing on the protection of the common data, how to save a local database, how to save a database to your host, how to import data, the update of Joomla, the management of the numbers of version and the questions/answers.
 
It is with a lot of enthusiasm that the colleagues ended the training. CDs were given to the participants as well as certificates of participation by the President Mr. L. Ndoye.

[Additional photos from the event may be seen here.]

Mr.Youssoupha Gueye
Conservateur de la Médiathèque du CESTI
Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal