Today is Joomla’s 6th birthday! On September 1st, 2005 the Joomla name was unveiled for the first time.

Jaguar is a world-famous brand of British luxury cars.

If you missed the happy twittering, last week at the Joomla! Day Chicago there was a spontaneous gathering of developers–yes, that includes you Ryan Ozimek–shut up in a room having a  great time writing platform applications.

Joomla Day Austin is right around the corner, held on September 15th in Austin, Texas. JDay Austin will be unique for several reasons such as being held in a historic Austin movie theater located in downtown Austin and using an entirely different presentation method. The most important difference is that the team of speakers is currently constructing a new Joomla website for an Austin Non-profit, Minis and Friends

Tešanj (pronounce ‘Techagn’) is a small ancient town in the North of Bosnia and Hercegovina, a now independant country that was once part of what was Yugoslavia. Although it looks now totally peaceful, nothing showing, except for a few bullet holes on some walls, the terrible war that took place in that region of the world from 1992 to 1995, I am told that, beyond the curtains, some old loves and hates are stil present between the 3 communities. It is there that was held on August 12th and 13th, the first JoomlaDay ever in what was Yugoslavia.

Joomla Day Bosnia and Herzegovina is this weekend and this year we’ve been celebrating each Joomla Day by featuring local Joomla sites. For Bosnia and Herzegovina, we have two large cultural events in the country: First is the International Film Festival Kratfofil Plus at http://kratkofil.org which is also taking place this weekend.

Joomla Day Chicago is this weekend and this year we’ve been celebrating each Joomla Day by featuring a local Joomla site. For Chicago, we have the highest point in the city. Sears Tower (recently renamed to Willis Tower) is the most famous landmark in Chicago

The other day someone watching the platform at github asked me “Who is Joomla-jenkins ?” That certainly seems to be someone doing a lot. Except it’s not exactly someone. Jenkins is continuous integration software (a fork of the Hudson project) which is used to ensure the stability of the platform by running unit tests, style checks and various analytics

In case you had not heard, Joomla 1.7 will be released on July 19, 2011. This is the first release under Joomla’s new 6-month release schedule. 1.

With the new development strategy there has been a lot of renaming and reorganizing of development resources for the different groups working on development and for people who want to contribute bug reports, patches, features and documentation.  In this post I’m going to point you to some of the new and renamed places for things.

If you look at the 1.7 beta, which was released recently , you may want to know where to look for new features.

Some people might say my presentations are a bit “different”.? I just think I enjoy an “energized” presentation like everyone else, and I know when open source folks are asked to listen to a keynote at 9am on a Saturday, something more than coffee is needed to keep them awake.? So I’m keen on doing my best to keep the audience happy with a bit of Californian banter and a little warm-up exercise at Joomla events.? It’s also a good remedy for lack of sleep.

It’s less than a month until Joomla!  CMS 1.7 is scheduled for release, and developers have been busy writing, testing and committing new features, working on the platform, and fixing bugs.

It’s less than a month until Joomla!  CMS 1.7 is scheduled for release, and developers have been busy writing, testing and committing new features, working on the platform, and fixing bugs. So what are some of those new features

On Wednesday, 6 July 2011, from the Joomla Community Livestream channel, Joomla! Night Chile 2011 will be broadcast live.

The JED is planning to redesign the listing details pages and offer enhanced premium features to the community. ?The?individual listing pages haven’t really grown with the needs of the extensions which are listed and the users that are reviewing them, so we have decided to change that

When the opportunity presented itself for me to speak at Joomla!Day Greece on May 28-29, 2011, I hopped at the chance to be there.

Before every Joomla day this year, we’re featuring a major Joomla site from the event’s location. This weekend is Joomla Day Greece which takes place on May 28 and 29 in Athens. Find out more at http://joomladay.gr