5 Days Open Source Workshop -IISPONSORED BY

Contents of this Workshop

Zen Cart (Open Source Ecommerce Solution)

Joomla (Open Source Content Management System)

Wordpress (Open Source Blog)Freelancing (oDesk & Peopleperhour)

Instructors

Usman Shahzada

(Assistant System Analyst, COMSATS IT Center)

Rizwan Abbasi

(Software Engineer, COMSATS IT Center)

About the Sponsor(Payoneer)

Payoneer empowers global commerce by connecting businesses, professionals, countries and currencies with its innovative cross-border payments platform. In today’s borderless digital world, Payoneer enables millions of businesses and professionals from more than 200 countries to reach new audiences by facilitating seamless, cross-border payments. Additionally, thousands of leading corporations including Google, Airbnb, Elance-oDesk and Getty Images rely on Payoneer’s mass payout services.

With Payoneer’s fast, flexible, secure and low-cost solutions, businesses and professionals in both developed and emerging markets can now pay and get paid globally as easily as they do locally.

What is Open Source

A program in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design free of charge

Purpose of this Workshop

Learn to develop ecommerce websites using Zen Cart

Learn about the leading Content Management System Joomla

Explore the art of blogging using Wordpress

Freelancing through Online Marketplaces like oDesk, Elance & Peopleperhour

Zencart

Zen Cart is an online store management system

It is PHP-based, using a MySQL database and HTML components

Zen Cart is free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software

Content Management System

A web content management system (web CMS) is a bundled or stand-alone

application to create, manage, store and deploy content on Web pages. Web

content includes text and embedded graphics, photos, video, audio, and code

(e.g., for applications) that displays content or interacts with the user

Joomla

Joomla is a free and open-source content management framework (CMS) for publishing web content.

As of February 2014, Joomla has been downloaded over 50 million times

Over 7,700 free and commercial extensions are available from the official Joomla! Extension Directory, and more are available from other sources

It is estimated to be the second most used content management system (CMS) on the Internet after WordPress

Wordpress

WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL

WordPress is used by more than 18.9% of the top 10 million websites as of August 2013.

WordPress is the most popular blogging system in use on the Web, at more than 60 million websites.

Freelancing

A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is somebody who is self-

employed and is not committed to a particular employer for a long term

Online Market Places

Odesk.com/Elance.comPeopleperhour.comFreelancer.comGuru.comGetacoder.comFiverr.com

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