Last week we gave you a glimpse of a possible new design for Joomla 3.0 .

Joomla 2.5 is right around the corner.

We are announcing a Joomla! Pizza Bugs and Fun 2011 event scheduled for Saturday, December 10, 2011.

Every Joomla! release has its moments of drama, tension, and transcendence. Inside the Joomla! Bug Squad in the run up to the release is always a flurry of intense activity. 1.7 was no different in that.

1.6 has brought a simple but efficient way to implement a multilang site in Joomla!?. See the tutorial . 1.7 goes further

Looking for the most active and successful Joomla community in the world?

Yes, this weekend it’s time for Joomla Day France held in Lyon.

This weekend is Joomla! Day India in Pune. Click here for more information on the event . This is the third Joomla event to take part in a new tradition we’re starting in 2011: Before each Joomla!Day around the world we’re going to feature a great local Joomla site

Groupama is the second largest insurance company in France and one of the largest in the world with offices across Europe and Asia. Their new website Groupama-Transport.com uses Joomla together with K2 for the content and Joomfish to translate the site.

Over the last few weeks it has been wonderful to see the work being done by the Joomla.org redesign team . Recently Kyle, who’s leading the redesign effort, published a post entitled Joomla.org Branding & Messaging . He wanted your answers to questions like this: How should Joomla be perceived

During October, the Joomla project hit another milestone in its continued growth: Joomla.org attracted 6 million visits for the very first time.

Exciting New Sponsorship Team As the new OSM Capital Committee Chair, two of my most important tasks are to analyze the results of our past sponsorship efforts, and build a plan to increase our effectiveness in onboarding new sponsors. With this in mind, I am looking to appoint members to a revived Sponsorship Team to ensure the success of the organisation’s sponsorship efforts moving forward.? This team would live within the umbrella Capital Committee, which encompasses all the income generating activities of the project.? I’m ideally searching for members of the community that have sponsorship/fundraising, sales, or strong connections in the corporate/foundation/community arenas to aid in this effort; however, even those with a passion to help are more than welcome to join! The new Sponsorship Team will provide leadership in the following areas: Building an outreach strategy that encourages growth in sponsorships Setting sponsorship revenue targets Providing regular reports to the Capital Committee Chair that can provide transparency and accountability to the OSM Board and the community But most importantly..

We are pleased to inform that the following people have been elected to the Open Source Matters (OSM) Board of Directors: Alice Grevet Dianne Henning Marijke Stuivenberg Andrea Tarr In this second part of the election, of which Part 1 was announced on October 1st 2010, we have had focus at candidates, among the Joomla! Community nominated and OSM Board recommended people, who all have potential to fill in several roles at the board. With the election of these four we feel confident that OSM will get strenghtened in areas of Trademark handling, Community outreach, International outreach and in building connections with Joomla Developers

Orange is the fifth largest telecom operator in the world. The company has around 200 million customers and is part of France Télécom. They use Joomla for their new developer website, http://api.orange.com

We have heard your requests for speedier comment moderation. Two new groups have been created on http://people.joomla.org Community Blog and Leadership Blog Each blog post will have a thread created in the appropriate JPeople group and a link provided at the end of each blog post

A security vulnerability in Joomla! has been reported to the JSST (Joomla! Security Strike Team).? There is a proposed patch and a test download available to the community. The test zip package is a full Joomla! release and is available here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=5459

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We’re delighted to report that eBay put out the following press release today . They will be using Joomla for an enterprise-level internal project. They’re also the hosts of Joomla Day West which is taking place at their San Jose, California campus today