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, and we ideally would like two mentors for each student project. Do the math, and you will see that we still need more mentors.
Many people who have mentored in the past report that it was one of the most fun and rewarding of all their Joomla!
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This is the first in a series of blog posts about major Joomla websites and the developers who built them. First up is Jack Bremmer and the major U.K. arts website theArtsDesk.com.
1) Hi Jack. Could you tell us a little bit about yourself?
Hi, and thanks for this opportunity to talk about this exciting project! I'm 29, loving living in London and running digital marketing agency 3B Digital (3bweb.com) with my older brother and business partner, Alex Bremer. Alex set the company
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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.
1) Hi Jack. Could you tell us a little bit about yourself?
Hi, and thanks for this opportunity to talk about this exciting project! I'm 29, loving living in London and running
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Last October the Joomla! Community in Italy put on an incredible Joomla! Day. Over 500 people attended and another 7000 watched on the live stream. I watched some of it live, and (even though I don't speak Italian) it was amazing. Not only that, they ran it as a free event and still made enough money to contribute 750 Euros to the Joomla! Project.
The 2010 edition of the Google Summer of Code has been announced, and we are setting the groundwork to submit our application to participate again this year. Joomla! has participated 5 times in the Google Summer of Code and has benefited greatly by the continued support that Google offers to the FOSS world
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It’s likely that you’ve paid a visit to the Joomla! shop around holidays and birthdays – to gift a Joomla! book to the cousin who’s trying to expand her business, or an advanced guide to your tech-savvy co-worker – or just when you wanted to share your open-source enthusiasm by sporting a Joomla!-logo fleece.
The Joomla! shop serves not only to supply friends of Joomla! with additional resources and fashionable Joomla! accessories, but perhaps more importantly, to bring in revenue for the project. The shop is about
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Joomla's most popular community extension, Community Builder, has passed the 300k mark for registered members—nearly as many as the Joomla Discussion Forum itself. Starting at the birth of Joomla, Joomlapolis has been steadily growing ever since.
To celebrate this remarkable achievement, a series of festivities have been planned for the "Community of Community Builders" on Joomlapolis. Additionally, the CB
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There are some pretty exciting changes coming with regard to how we work on Joomla!. In the near future we are going to be allowing developers to register accounts via our Joomla! Developer Network site and be given access to commit code to our subversion repositories with those accounts. We will be keeping the trunk and release sections of our repository secured for trusted maintainers, but anyone will be
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Andrew Eddie recently presented about many of the new features that will be available in Joomla 1.6 at the Joomla Day in Melbourne, Australia, on 13 February 2010.
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 of handling revenue and expenditure needed by the project without sacrificing OSM's non-profit nature. • as a means of attracting or developing new funding sources. • to make it easier to disburse funds to individuals and organisations to
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Today the 15 millionth copy of Joomla! was downloaded from Joomlacode, just 250 days after the 10 millionth download That's an average of 20,000 per day. Wow.
Thanks to everyone for making that happen: users, developers, people on all the teams and people on no team, but who help out in all kinds of ways or just recommending Joomla! to others.
And special thanks to Rochen for coping with the incredible bandwidth demands and to the Joomlacode team for keeping it all running smoothly.
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 of skills to the board, and we feel that the current members combined with the new, will form a great team.
Dave Huelsmann has been reelected, and we are very pleased that he accepted to continue the great work he
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Recently, Vu Hoang Viet a friend in Vietnam who was involved with the Vietnam JoomlaDay I attended last year, shared with me the following news article. He's translated it for English speakers below:
If you have the impression that more people are helping out with version 1.6, then you are correct. I just did a quick look through the CHANGELOG file for the past month and I found 22 names of contributors. Here they are:
Amy Stephen, Andrea Tarr, Andrew Eddie, Angie Radtke, Arlen Walker, Christophe Demko, Christopher Garvis, Dejan Acman, Elin Waring, Hannes Papenberg, James Kennard, Jean-Marie Simonet, Jeff Channell, Jeff Fendley, Jonnathan S. Lima, Louis Landry, Mark Dexter, Nabyl Sadki, Omar Ramos, Robert Deutz, Ron Severdia, and Sam Moffatt.
The Vulnerable Extensions List Team have updated the procedures for the Vulnerable Extensions List and thought we would share how we do it to prevent some common and increasing miss-understandings.
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 70 people who responded for taking the time to share your thoughts and for the really thoughtful and heartfelt responses.
The form closed a little while ago, and we know people are curious, so we wanted to share the results right away. The
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As you know, this past fall OSM started to pay Louis and Andrew for a day or two of their time per week working on Joomla! Development. This was done as an experiment, and now is the time at which we will begin evaluation of the results. The most important question is: what is the impact of this on our community of contributors, which is to say the people who are contributing to the Joomla! project. We are also interested in the thoughts of the wider world of engaged users and Joomla!
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Hi, and thanks for this opportunity to talk about this exciting project! I'm 29, loving living in London and running
The 2010 edition of the 
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