S&I Monthly report - January 2008

Written by Brad

Saturday, 02 February 2008

The biggest news this month was the release of Joomla! 1.5. This has been a very busy time for all involved in the S&I Workgroup.

JoomlaCode passes the 3 million mark in downloads of Joomla! alone. This does not include any other projects, just the official Joomla! ones.

Joomla! 1.5 Stable, which was recently released has now been downloaded from www.joomlacode.org (our only official download location) more than 145 000 times already.

jdam added as new Filipino Forum Moderator

jmuehleisen added as 1.0.x Forum Moderator

We broke a few records on the forum this month as well:
We had the highest number of posts ever in a month: 47751
We had the highest number of new topics ever in a month: 11628
We had the highest number of new members ever in a month: 10977

Nathan Diehl (aka nathandiehl) has taken the title for the month of January 2008. This is totally deserved, as he is a tireless helper on the forum, always staying poised and relaxed.

Work has begun, and already much headway has been made listing Joomla! on the many software directories out on the web. Special thanks to József Herczeg for driving this initiative.

JED (Joomla Extensions Directory):

Our members have now submitted over 20.000 reviews to the JED (Joomla Extensions Directory).
We have now 50.000+ registered users in JED.

Looking back to December 2007:

183 new extensions were published in the Extensions Directory, which 66% are released under GPL, 8% as commercial (proprietary) and 26% as other licence types.

24 of the new extensions were entirely written for 1.5 (native).

37 of the new extensions have legacy support for 1.5.

621 new reviews were published in the Extensions Directory.

On a personal note:
I’d like to invite you all to join with me in giving a special thanks to the more than 100 moderators who help out on our forum. Also, the Global Moderators deserve a special thanks from me personally. I can tall you all now, that without the help of all these people, who tirelessly devote hours and hours to Joomla!, we would not be in the shape we are in. Next time you see one of these people around, be sure to thank them.

There are exciting things on the horizon, with plenty of room for more people to become involved. There are initiatives going on the behind the scenes. You never know where we might be able to use you, if you would like to volunteer to help us out. “Joomla! is not for coders only!”
Be sure to get in touch if you would like to help out.

I’ve just enjoyed the Melbourne JoomlaDay where we met so many of you (more than 130). Thanks again to all that attended. It means a lot to us to know that our (the entire Joomla! Community) efforts are used so widely and valued so much.

So, until next month, remember the slogan: “Joomla! is not for coders only!”

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