06Jun Joomla! 1.6 Promotional Shirts are Here!

A While ago I blogged to let you know about a new Tshirt we had coming to the Joomla! Shop. Well, wait no more! The shirts are finally here and available for purchase in the shop.  These are a limited edition item with only 500 available, so don’t wait too long to get yours! The [...]

05Jun Joomla is Enterprise Ready

Space – the Final Frontier… “….These are the voyages of the starship, Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange, new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.” Founded back in 1974 STARFLEET is the oldest continuously operating Star Trek Fan Organization in the world. [...]

31May Ask The Team – Chatlog 12th May 2010

We publish here the chat log from our last “Ask The Joomla Team” Session. Next Session will be happen on 19th May 2010 12 UTC with Robert Deutz and Louis Landry. How Can You Join Ask the Joomla Team You can meet us in the #joomla-ask-the-team chat room on irc.freenode.net If you’re not sure about [...]

30May JED 5000: Thank you Joomla Developer Community

The Joomla Extensions Directory reached a milestone today, topping the 5000 listings mark.  That means more than 5000 extensions are available to the community as open source and GPL.  A few years ago, members of the community had questioned the ability of the JED to thrive while only allowing GPL extensions to be listed. I [...]

29May Global Sports Governing Organisation Uses Joomla!

FINA (Fédération Internationale de Natation) the global governing body for all five aquatic sports uses Joomla! for its site http://www.fina.org. On the site you will find news, rules, statistics, doping regulations and a calendar of events for all five disciplines of swimming, diving, water polo, synchronised swimming and open water swimming. Extensions used to create [...]

23May Upcoming Events in the Joomla World

Here are some of the exciting events coming up in the Joomla world over the next few months. Joomla team members will be at all of these events so if you want to get involved in the project, come up and say hi. We’ll tell you how you can help and put you in touch [...]

21May Interview with Matthew Philogene about Afro.who.int

About this Blog This is the fifth 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. Fourth was Azrul, Mike Carson and [...]

14May New Faces, New Places at our new place

The much anticipated people.joomla.org opens today for a soft beta launch. This is an opportunity for everyone to take a look around and get a feel for the place while we iron out potential issues. Please be patient with us while this takes place.  If you notice any issues please post them in the new [...]

13May Ryan's Update: Week of April 5, 2010

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 [...]

12May Ryan's Update: Week of March 29, 2010

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 completed my first draft on a few roles and responsibilities documents for OSM Board positions [...]

08May Ryan's Update: Week of March 29, 2010

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 completed my first draft on a few roles and responsibilities documents for OSM Board positions [...]

02May Ryan's Update: Week of April 5, 2010

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 [...]

01May Ask The Team – Chatlog 21st April 2010

We publish here the chat log from our second “Ask The Joomla Team” Session. Next Session will be happen on 28th April 2010 12 UTC with Elin Waring and Louis Landry. How Can You Join Ask the Joomla Team You can meet us in the #joomla-ask-the-team chat room on irc.freenode.net If you’re not sure about [...]

30Apr The JED is Springing to a New Server

The Joomla Extensions Directory (JED) has become one of the highest traffic sites within the Joomla family, and our own Brad Baker recently posted a blog about just how heavily it’s used. He analyzed our Joomla site hosting at Rochen’s team blog.  As a result, Rochen will be moving the whole site to a new [...]

28Apr Ryan's Update: Week of March 29, 2010

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 completed my first draft on a few roles and responsibilities documents for OSM Board positions [...]

22Apr Joomla Social Site RFC

For a very long time people in the Community Working Group (and the Sites and Infrastructure group before that) have wanted to create a social network style site for the Joomla! Community. Recently the Community Leadership Team has been discussing this idea (yet) again and also discussing a major redesign of all of the sites. [...]

20Apr Ryan's Update: Week of March 22, 2010

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 [...]

18Apr Ryan's Update: Week of March 29, 2010

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 completed my first draft on a few roles and responsibilities documents for OSM Board positions [...]