30Apr Future of the VEL team

Since 2010 the VEL team have organised the Vulnerable Extensions List on behalf of the Joomla community. Since then the list has been hosted on the docs.joomla.org pages.The VEL team felt that now was the time to move the vel project onto its own website

28Apr VEL Team volunteers needed

The Vulnerable Extensions List team is looking for new members. Those interested do not need to know how to code or be a developer but they must be able to:

24Apr Marketing Materials for Joomla 3.1

For people wanting to blog about this week’s release of Joomla 3.1, we have some marketing materials ready for you.

23Apr It’s GSoC Time!

Google’s Open Source offices have officially announced that there will be a Google Summer of Code Program this year. Because of the wild success of our projects with GSoC last year, the Joomla Community has again put together a team to mentor college / university students of any age for the summer. That team has already filled out the application for Google, and been approved by Google.

13Apr Kickstarting web services in Joomla

With the ever-increasing demand for content to be consumed across platforms and across devices, Joomla urgently needs a RESTful web services API. ?It is no longer enough to just publish content on a website and expect people to use a web browser to access it. ?Nowadays people want to consume content on smartphones, tablets and other devices, and they want to be able to connect information systems together to break out of the old content silos.

15Mar Pizza, Bugs, and Fun is Today – Saturday, March 16th, 2013

Today (Saturday, March 16th) ?is the gobal? Pizza, Bugs, and Fun ?event .

08Mar Joomla! Recent Download Fun Facts

I was poking around our very own Joomlacode.org site today and started looking at some recent download statistics. As you may know, reliable market share information for open-source CMS packages is hard to find, and it is especially difficult to assess recent trends. However, Joomlacode tracks all file downloads (including those from the one-click version updates), and these do provide some useful data

05Mar Joomla Project to Apply for GSoC 2013

The spring time is drawing upon us, and for student developers, this is an exciting time of year. Google has again announced that it will be running the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program

01Mar Pizza, Bugs, and Fun March 16th, 2013

Consider this your invitation to join us on ?Saturday, the 16th of March , for? Pizza, Bugs, and Fun .

17Feb The 3rd Joomla! Day India

The JUG Pune & JUG Mumbai had organised the 3rd Joomla! Day in Mumbai, and what an event it was! We had Ryan Ozimek, David Hurley, Ofer Cohen and ?more than half a dozen speakers from various parts of India.

07Feb Africa Cup of Nations Uses Joomla

The Africa Cup of Nations is one of the largest and most presitigious football tournaments in the world. This year the tournament is being held for the 29th time and the venue is South Africa.

31Jan Languages in 3.0.3. What is new?

? Two new language features are added in Joomla! 3.0.3: Installation of language packs when installing the CMS Extension of items associations to remaining core components in multilanguage. Installation of language packs when installing Joomla! After implementing the installation of language packs through the Extension Manager since 2.5.7 (?See http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1668-first-time-in-joomla-history.html ), Javier Gomez completed his GSOC project by coding this new functionnality. 1

11Dec Joomla! goes CeBIT 2013

CMSGarden – The Open Source CMS Garden Festival at CeBIT 2013 In September 2012 I got a call from Stepahn Luckow, who is President of the German Drupal Association called “Drupal-Initiative”. He told me about his idea of presenting all interested Open Source content-managment-systems at a common stand at the CeBIT 2013 event. CeBIT is the world’s largest IT trade fair and takes place in Hannover, Germany, from March 5 – 9, 2013

28Nov Open to Everyone: Joomla Accessibility Goals

The international Joomla conference is behind us. It is always great meeting people face to face. It is at moments like this that things, often discussed at length, can be quickly and effectively brought into focus.

15Nov Future of People Joomla Org

In may 2010, the people.joomla.org website (PJO or JPeople), mainly built on Jomsocial, launched as a beta to see if the social media sides of joomla could be centralised. It also provided a home for the Joomla User Groups, developer fan clubs and various communication channels with the Joomla teams

02Nov Multilanguage in 3.0.2 What’s new?

In the 1.7 release of Joomla! was introduced a cool functionnality, Menu Items Associations for a Multilanguage site.

01Nov Guaranty Trust Bank Uses Joomla

Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank) is the biggest and most profitable bank in Nigeria.

25Oct Sagepay for Virtuemart

Based in the UK, Sagepay is a payment processor that strives to be simple, flexible and secure. Use the VMSagepay plugin to process your credit card payments in Virtuemart