I think we are
Here’s how I reached this conclusion:

This week we welcomed a new international community to our forum. The new Latvian Forum moderator, zuze was one of only a handful of female moderators. Also, this week, another new female moderator joined us, Wizzie who you will run in to (in a good way hopefully) in the main ‘Top’ section.

All this got me thinking, so I took a look at the Statistic Center on our forum, and noted something interesting. The ratio of male to female has been reducing. About 6 months ago, it was 12:1, and now it is down to 10:1 (approx). I think it is great, and shows the universal appeal and reach that Joomla has.

In other news:
You may have noticed the new Joomla! Working Group Credits forum. Soon we will be listing (if WG members choose to be) all the Joomla Workgroup participants. We think is it about time we gave credit to so many of the hard working people who help to make Joomla what it is today.

Coming up:
More and more work is being done on our FAQ’s and soon we plan to get these moved to the help site. We hope this will prove to further enhance the hard work being done by the Documentation Workgroup.

Statistics are not everything, however Joomla continues to climb in rank according to Alexa. We are already in the top 500, and as of today at 449 of the top 500 websites worldwide. See this link. I predict we will see Joomla up near 400 in the next few months if this growth continues.

Finally, my quote of the week, which I now have in my signature: “Amateurs hope, professionals work.” - Garson Kanin

See you all somewhere in the Joomlasphere!

After a shorter period of downtime, caused by some users’ abuse, Joomla! demo sites are back online.

To reduce the excessive spam we introduced a mandatory registration and email account confirmation in order to edit the demo site. Also, the sites are regularly refreshed every hour as usual. If the need arises, we will consider other measures like tracking down and banning the abusers.

Once again we ask our users not to abuse the privilege of the online Joomla! demo and don’t post spam weblinks, porn, foul language etc. Also, try not to ruin for others by deliberately removing all articles, menu links etc. from the demo site.

Thank you!

Some Joomla! statistics to finish of october, the month Joomla! beta 1.5 came to be. We don’t have the exact download numbers of Joomla! 1.5 beta, but we do have some other information. Joomla! Forge has been the depository for lots of nice projects, and the download numbers on Forge still increase every month. At the beginning of the year, the bandwidth spent on Joomla! Forge was about 600 GB per month. This amount has been rising as time progressed. For the month october, we reached the highest total since starting. Joomla! Forge alone was enough for 1,8 TB of bandwidth. Somehow we don’t think this amount will lessen in the coming months.

As we are talking statistics, also an update for the rest of the Joomla! websites. The Joomla! Extensions Directory and the Forum are now on one server. These two manage to burn away 1,5 TB per month, also still growing each month. The rest of the Joomla! sites, www.joomla.org, help.joomla.org, and dev.joomla.org are on a second server. Surprisingly, these sites are good for 1 TB in the month october. In total, this means that 4,3 TB of bandwidth has been spent by all people who are interested in Joomla! one way or the other.

A last small piece of information. Did you know that more than 51 percent of all people visiting www.joomla.org use the Firefox browser?