Transcript 5 Days Open Source Workshop -II

5 Days Open Source
Workshop -II
SPONSORED 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
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Usman Shahzada
(Assistant System Analyst, COMSATS IT Center)
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Rizwan Abbasi
(Software Engineer, COMSATS IT Center)
About the Sponsor
(Payoneer)
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Payoneer empowers global commerce by connecting businesses,
professionals, countries and currencies with its innovative crossborder 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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.com
Peopleperhour.com
Freelancer.com
Guru.com
Getacoder.com
Fiverr.com
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