In an Internet landscape full of “what I ate for breakfast” posts, here’s my semi-regular dose of transparency and accountability to the Joomla community as to my activities as Open Source Matters (OSM) President. <!– (English | Español) –> Week in Review moved forward on my second draft on a few roles and responsibilities documents [...]

About this Blog This is the fourth in a series of blog posts about major Joomla websites and the developers who built them. First was Jack Bremer and the U.K. arts website theArtsDesk.com. Second was Fotis Evangelou and the Greek sports website Gazzetta.gr. Third was Dan Lopez and Linux.com. This week we’re talking with Azrul, [...]

The Joomla! Extensions Directory is no doubt one of the reasons Joomla! is so popular.  The JED itself has very high traffic and receives hundreds of reviews and listing submissions per week.  One of the reasons we can maintain the quality of the JED is because each submission is reviewed by a real human being [...]

In an Internet landscape full of “what I ate for breakfast” posts, here’s my semi-regular dose of transparency and accountability to the Joomla community as to my activities as Open Source Matters (OSM) President. <!– (English | Español) –> Week in Review moved forward on my second draft on a few roles and responsibilities documents [...]

Joomla.org strives hard to provide an easy to use site with simplicity and accessibility. We are currently in the process of presenting the Joomla! community with what (we hope) you will find as powerful and exciting improvements to the way you use Joomla.org main site and sub sites. In the next few months, Joomla.org and [...]

Today we have reached the unbelievable amount of 2,000,000 forum posts. This would not have been possible without all the registered users. The users who asked their questions and shared their ideas. And the users who contributed their knowledge to help out their fellow Joomla users. Furthermore credits go to our fantastic team of dedicated [...]

Hi everyone. We just finished a production workgroup leadership meeting and have an updated spreadsheet showing the major tasks to complete before the release of the version 1.6 beta. Here is a link to the spreadsheet. As you can see, we have made good progress toward the 1.6 beta release, although more work remains. For [...]

In an Internet landscape full of “what I ate for breakfast” posts, here’s my semi-regular dose of transparency and accountability to the Joomla community as to my activities as Open Source Matters (OSM) President. Many thanks to Stormy Peters for her inspiration in her Stormy’s Updates to the GNOME community. Week in Review worked on [...]

With the release of 1.6 nearly upon us, we thought it would be fitting to celebrate with something… fitted. The Joomla! shop is exited to announce a limited-edition run of a special t-shirt that heralds the long-awaited addition of ACL. With the critical code line running down the front and a bold decree on the [...]

The Community is still waiting for the new release of Joomla 1.6. Users are anxious to have Acl and the new category system. But some other things will be changed too. The backend has some changes, new modules have been added, and the HTML – Output changed. I care about the output, the implementation of [...]

As many of you already know, yesterday we learned that the Joomla! project was not accepted for the 2010 Google Summer of Code program. This was both disappointing and surprising. Joomla! has been in the program every year for the past five years, and we had a very successful program in 2009. However, this decision [...]

About this Blog This is the third in a series of blog posts about major Joomla websites and the developers who built them. First up was Jack Bremer and the U.K. arts website theArtsDesk.com. Second was Fotis Evangelou and the Greek sports website Gazzetta.gr. This week we’re talking with Dan Lopez about Linux.com. Hi Dan. [...]

Most every day, something reminds me how remarkable the Joomla! community is. Recently, Jennifer Marriott and I announced that we needed mentors for the 2010 Google Summer of Code program. In no time at all, we had 16 volunteers, which is a fantastic start. However, it’s not quite enough. Last year, we sponsored 18 students, [...]

About this Blog This is the first in a series of blog posts about major Joomla websites and the developers who built them. First up is Jack Bremer and the major U.K. arts website theArtsDesk.com. Source:Interview with Jack Bremer About theArtsDesk.com

As readers of this blog, the development mailing lists and the work group forums know, in recent weeks we’ve been collecting feed back on having some paid development. We asked people to reflect on the impact on them personally and collected both survey type information and open ended responses. Thank you so much to the [...]

In early 2009 the Community Oversight Committee (also known as the core team) sent the OSM board a message that began: “The Core Team would like OSM to investigate and report on the feasibility of creating some sort of company which can deal with the financial issues currently facing the project. • as a means [...]

We are pleased to inform that the following people have been elected and have all accepted the invitation to join the OSM Board of Directors: Marko Milenovic, Javier Gomez, Jacques Rentzke, Robert Deutz, Akarawuth Tamrareang and Steve Burge. These new members, who all were among the community nominated candidates too, will bring on a broad set [...]

Invariably, once you’ve mastered using Joomla, one of the next subjects you will at least spend some time on, is Joomla Performance. Why? Well, these days, even Google says that site performance may have an impact on your SEO results. So, this becomes quite an important subject now. Now, here’s the challenge. I’m going to [...]