Congraulations to the Tamil Joomla Community which sucessfully held a Joomla and Linux event for more than 350 students.

The confernce at Ooris College in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India on August 1st. Vellore is about 150 km west of the city of Chennai.

Sstudents and IT professionals from Chittore, Krishnagiri and Vellore districts participated in this conference. The topics were:

• What is a CMS?
• What is Joomla?
• Joomla Features
• How to install Linux
• Problems during installation
• Troubleshooting problems

  Read original post at source site... http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1270-joomla-and-linux-event-in-vellore-india.html

McDonalds is one of the world's largest fast food companies, serving nearly 47 million customers daily.

Their website for the Arabian Peninsula uses Joomla: www.McDonaldsArabia.com. The homepage is just a splash screen but beyond that are multiple pages of Joomla graphic design excellence. The site is a showcase for how well Joomla works with right-to-left languages such as Arabic and multilingual website.

The site was built for McDonalds by MRM Worldwide who are reponsible for Read more...

In December 2009, the Joomla community was asked to nominate new Open Source Matters (OSM) board members.

OSM is entrusted with providing organizational, legal, and financial support for the Joomla! project. You can find out more about the organization at http://opensourcematters.org.

With those serious responsibilities and the recent departure of two long-serving board members, the decision has Read more...

The Joomla Project is proud to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 8 (download). IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a beta version and is not intended to run any type of production site. It is intended to be used for evaluation purposes only.

Since the Joomla 1.6 beta 7 release on August 9, we have fixed approximately Read more...

Gorillaz is a musical project created in 1998 by Damon Albarn of alternative rock band Blur. They've sold enormous numbers of records and also have won a large number of awards.

They're now nominated for another award - best site redesign. Gorillaz.com was rebuilt in Joomla earlier this year and is nominated for the presitigious .net Awards. How much of an honor is it to be nominated? They're listed alongside ars Read more...

Joomla.org is growing!

With so many recent changes to the Joomla.org family, as well as the anticipation of Joomla! 1.6, a restructuring of the websites is due.

Joomla.org is one of the largest websites in the world (something to be very proud of). As with all large sites that are run by multiple teams, one of the biggest challenges is keeping everything consistent. We see this with corporations like Microsoft, Apple and even Dell.com, to name a few, and Joomla! is no exception.

Over the past 4 years, Joomla!'s number of sub sites has grown from a handful to Read more...

I've had the privilege of working with an organization based in Ethiopia this week. They wanted some information about how widely used Open Source is and whether it would be a good choice. So I started digging and found out that practically every Ethiopian university and the vast majority of the country's government agences all run Joomla. There's a list below that took me an hour to find and I'm sure there are many more.

I see this as tribute to the hard work of all involved in Joomla. To take just one example, the people on our translation teams have made it possible for website Read more...

I've had the privilege of working with an organization based in Ethiopia this week. They wanted some information about how widely used Open Source is and whether it would be a good choice. So I started digging and found out that practically every Ethiopian university and the vast majority of the country's government agences all run Joomla. There's a list below that took me an hour to find, just looking for offiicial sites.

This is a tribute to the hard work of all involved in Joomla. To take just one example, the people on Read more...

Pizza Hut is the world’s leading pizza company with over 12,000 stores in 90 countries.

They run Joomla for their main website in France: http://PizzaHut.fr:

Read original post at source site... http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1271-pizza-hut.html

Earlier this year we ran a series of interview on developers of very high-profile Joomla websites. Now in a new series we're talking with developers of normal business websites and interesting aspects of their work.

This week we're talking with Mark Rosser of AmorWebDesign.com, based in England and Spain, about building multi-lingual websites with Joomla.

Why did you choose to focus on Joomla?

We had been monitoring the evolution of content management systems for some time. We believed that they were destined to become the Read more...

Joomla 1.6 beta versions are out. I, along with the rest of the Joomla! developer community downloaded and installed on a development platform the new release and began to play around with all the goodies.

The community is gearing up and squashing all those little annoying bugs and Read more...

At the J and Beyond 2010 conference in Weisbaden, DE, I had the pleasure to meet and chat with Aarti Mahajan, a graduate student in Innovation & Entrepreneurship Management Department at the Ghent University in Belgium.

Aarti’s doctoral research is aimed at revealing the entrepreneurship and revenue generation opportunities within the Joomla! ecosystem.

To obtain the appropriate data for her research, Aarti has prepared two surveys aimed at Joomla! extension developers and service providers. Each survey will take Read more...

The Women's Refugee Commission is a non-governmental organization based in New York City. It advocates for laws and programs to improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and young people.

Today they're taking part in International Youth Day which is on August 12 each year. The theme for today's event is Dialogue and Mutual Understanding. Today is also the start of the International Year of Youth, held for the first time since 1985. Find out more at the WRC website.

While Read more...

WE DID! The JUG team is proud to present a new and improved system for JUG applications.  After a short interim period using a temporary relief system,  the entire process was restructured from the ground up to provide a more streamlined approach to all areas of the process.  A directory has been included through the use of Moset's Tree and Moxie Read more...

The Production Leadership Team (PLT) is the group of people that is responsible for keeping the machinery that produces the Joomla software maintained and in good working order.  The PLT aims to meet in person once or twice a year.  The last development related summit was held in Australia in January of 2009 and this meeting was pivotal for bringing in necessary changes to the organisational and communication structure of the Joomla production system, lowering the barriers to entry for contribution significantly.

The next PLT Summit will be Read more...

In an effort to maintain the Board's effectiveness during its search for a new Treasurer, the Board of Open Source Matters, Inc. (OSM), on the 10th of August 2010, appointed Steve Burge as Acting Treasurer of the organization, for a period ending no later than November 1, 2010 or until a new Treasurer has been elected, appointed or qualified, whichever comes first.

The Acting Treasurer shall have Read more...

Over the last few weeks we've been working hard to update and improve Joomla's presence on social networks. Here's an update:

Facebook

http://facebook.com/joomla

• We talked with Facebook and were able to move from our old URL which was too hard to remember: facebook.com/joomla.official.page. Our official Joomla account is now at http://facebook.com/joomla. Thanks to Chris Torneheim from the Swedish Joomla group for his help.
• We tided up the page and made it Read more...

The Joomla Project is proud to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 7 (download). IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a beta version and is not intended to run any type of production site. It is intended to be used for evaluation purposes only.

Since the Joomla 1.6 beta 6 release on July 26, we have fixed approximately 85 Read more...

My first article on ACL covered one tiny aspect of this system: determining who can see which content once they've logged into the front end of the website.

This article covers "The Full ACL": who gets to create, edit, delete, change the state, manage, administer, and log into the website. Yes, that's basically any permission except for read!

Why would you want to configure this aspect of ACL? You might use The Full ACL in the following situations:

• You have users who Read more...

In May, Brad Baker started this blog series with a roundup of informative reports submitted from each CWG team on the Community Workgroup Google Group. 

Today we continue the series with a round up the team reports from July and I also encourage you to check out the June reports, if you have not already had Read more...