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Proposals for Major Events Wanted

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:01:00 +0000

The Joomla! Events Team is excited to announce that it is seeking proposals from potential local organizing committees for up to four major events to be held on dates between the Fourth Quarter of 2010 and the end of 2011. Each event will be held on a different continent and in a different quarter. Details about the process and requirements are available as part of the Request for Proposals.

The process of selection will take a few

Few important changes in 1.5.15 release

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:53:00 +0000

To accompany the official release announcement, I would like to point out few of the most important changes in this release:

.htaccess change that prevents looking at your extensions XML files - while this was not a security whole by itself, it kept open doors for hackers to see what version of particular extension you are running. To put this fix into effect you have to uncomment (remove #) from corresponding section (lines 35-39) in htaccess.txt and rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess (or copy - paste that part into your existing .htaccess, must be inserted at the same

Preview of the New Template Manager in Joomla 1.6

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:10:00 +0000

Joomla 1.6 will include some important new changes in the Template Manager. This article gives you a preview of what you can likely expect in the final product.

Read original post at source site... http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1064-preview-of-the-new-template-manager-in-joomla-16.html

A Preview of the New Template Manager in Joomla 1.6

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:10:00 +0000

Joomla 1.6 will include some important new changes in the Template Manager. This article gives you a preview of what you can likely expect in the final product.

Read original post at source site... http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1064-preview-of-the-new-template-manager-in-joomla-16.html

Joomla 1.5.15 Released

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:00:00 +0000

The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.15 [Wojmamni ama mamni]. It has been three months since Joomla 1.5.14 was released on July 30, 2009.

The Development Working Group's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.

Joomla 1.6 Alpha 2 Released

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:09:00 +0000

The Joomla project is pleased to announce the immediate release of Joomla 1.6 alpha 2. This release contains many new features requested by the community; most notably, ACL. Other features are listed below as well as what you can expect in the future for Joomla 1.6.

This is an alpha release. It is intended to be a developer/hobbyist preview and is not intended to be used on a production web site.

New improvements/features since alpha 1 include:

ACL: access management for global permissions as well as content item specific permissions, variable usergroups,

Joomla Community Building - my view

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:09:00 +0000

Of course, everyone has their own opinions on this subject, just like everyone has their own preferences on operating system, web browser etc. So, the following brief thoughts are just an expression of my opinion on this subject. BTW I prefer Mac OS, Firefox/Google Chrome

What prompted me to write this

The Most Popular Open Source CMS

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:01:00 +0000

According to a report issued by CMSWire (registration required), the Joomla! community has created the world's most popular open source content management system. Congratulations to everyone who contributed to this: core developers, people who answer forum questions, team members, translators, site implementers, extension developers, template designers, Joomla fans and everyone else who helps make Joomla the great platform that it is.

Millions of people around the world use Joomla everyday

Joomla Connect Feeds Hit with a Hammer

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:02:00 +0000

There have been several non joomla.org blog posts about the current situation of the feed content appearing in Joomla Connect.
To this end, without giving several URLs to the many blog posts appearing questioning why their posts have been removed and in some cases dropped altogether, here are some reasons.

So far I have taken a step back approach to (mostly spam) reports on the Joomla Connect Feed. However I and many others will now be a bit more vigorous on the feeds and posts.

Those that don't comply with the terms of carrying the feed and posts will be

Joomla Projecting

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:55:00 +0000

If you've been following the developments lists (or even if you haven't), you've noticed a flurry of activity around Joomla 1.6 in recent months. While we haven't been very good about keeping our milestones, there are a few very good reasons for that.

The first and biggest reason is we've been trying to shoot at a moving target. The scope for Joomla 1.6 was pretty basic—adding ACL and nested categories. Had we stopped there, we could have theoretically had

Joomla Resources Directory Clean Up

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:27:00 +0000

Greetings from the JRD Editorial Team,

The JRD has seen some excellent growth since it's inception back in June of this year.

We started out with an overwhelming response from community members to help us 'test drive' the new site and then an absolute FLOOD of listing submissions when we

Joomla!Day Mongolia a Great Success

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:26:00 +0000

In great showing of success, the large auditorium in Ulan Bator's IT Park held a great crowd of Joomla! users from across the city for the first ever Joomla!Day Mongolia. With leadership of the day's events by Mr. T. Altansukh and the Mongolian translation team, this event had much great news to celebrate.

The day's events kicked off with a terrific guest speaker, B. Dolgor, Head of the Cabinet Secretariat for the Mongolian government. She reminded the room of an amazing statistic: nearly the entire Mongolian federal government is now running a Joomla Web

"You can't go in there"

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:55:00 +0000

That's what you will be able to say from now on when you explain your new site to someone else. Yes, we finally found a solution for the access management problems in Joomla and it is also already implemented in the trunk.
One of Joomla's biggest weaknesses so far has been the missing control over who can do what in Joomla. You only had those three viewlevels (Public, Registered, Special) and seven usergroups that had fixed, site-wide permissions. New usergroups? Restricting a usergroup to one category only? Not possible in Joomla up to now. This is a problem that has been bothering

Site Showcase Team Looking for New Members

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:53:00 +0000

If you haven't visited the Joomla Site Showcase yet, you're missing a collection of some of the best Joomla sites out there. We've just broken 1000 sites (congratulations to our 1000th site, the Junction Motel in Australia), many of which are great examples of sites in over 100 different categories. Check it out here:
http://community.joomla.org/showcase
We're looking for

Pressing Onward to 1.6

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:21:00 +0000

Last week Mark wrote the first Production Working Group Leadership status blog. At last Saturday's meeting, for some strange reason I volunteered to write one this week.

Work continues on 1.6. As Mark stated last week, the biggest task remaining for the release of 1.6 is ACL. The other night Louis showed me some mockups of one of the UI widgets and they look quite sharp. It is pretty exciting to see this much sought after feature finally starting to come together. Hannes and Andrew have also been working hard to get all of the pieces together.

Welcome Olaf to the Global Moderator team

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:30:00 +0000

The Global Moderators would like to announce a new addition to the Global Moderator team.

Olaf Offick (aka ooffick) has graciously accepted our request to join the team stating, "I would be honored".

We, the Joomla community, are very grateful for the time and effort that Olaf has contributed to the project. He represents the true spirit of "giving back" to an

Vote for Joomla!

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:16:00 +0000

It's time to vote for Joomla! in the annual Packt Publishing CMS Awards.
There are two places to vote:
Hall of Fame Award
Best Open Source PHP CMS.
We love saying that Joomla! is an award-wining CMS, and I'm sure lots of you do to, so let's get the vote out.
Also, this

News From the Production Leadership Team

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:24:00 +0000

Hi everyone. This is the first of what we hope will be regular blogs to let you know what the Production Leadership Team is working on. In case you missed it, we're the people who coordinate the development, documentation, communications, bug squashing, and translation efforts for Joomla.

Currently, we are hard at work getting version 1.6 ready. To that end, we are meeting weekly to sort out tasks and keep things moving. You can read the notes from these meetings on the Google Group called

Joomla! Developer Conference

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:43:00 +0000

Third party developers are vital to the success of Joomla!. To be effective developing extensions you need up to date information about developments in the Joomla! core and how to work effectively and using best practices when extending it. With this in mind, the Joomla! Project is tentatively planning a conference for third party developers on Saturday and Sunday December 5 and 6 in New York City. The conference will include training targeted to experienced developers, information about Joomla! 1.6 and opportunities for networking with other developers and core

Please Help Test Version 1.5.15

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:37:00 +0000

On August 5, we asked community members (that's you!) to help test proposed fixes to allow Joomla! to work correctly using PHP version 5.3. The response was very good. Since then, we have identified some more places that needed to be fixed, and we have also made a number of fixes to the TinyMCE editor.
For these reasons, we have created a new test release and are again asking the community to help us make sure this fixes what we think it does and doesn't create any new problems.
Ideally, we would like to get help from three groups of users: (1) those who use PHP 5.3; (2) those

Joomla! 1.6 Access Control Design Concepts

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:21:00 +0000

Your review and feedback is appreciated on Design Concepts for the Joomla! 1.6 Access Control Improvements. Please review this video that overviews those ideas, review presentation material and leave your comments, questions and concerns, below. If you have specific application requirements that you want to ensure are met, take time to share those Use Cases for review. Thanks!
Read original post at source site... http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1036-joomla-16-access-control-design-concepts.html

Multilingual Girl Power

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:01:00 +0000

Its often said there is a lack of women contributing and participating at higher level in open source projects.
Fortunately we do see a tendency of this changing to the better within the joomla! project

Sure, the male:female contributor ratio still weighs towards the male side, but the fact that we more and more often see women taking on the leading roles within ours teams is a good indicator of a more balanced ratio in the future.

So to get to the real topic of this post, we are pleased to add two new members to the Extensions,

Being "The Vendor" for Security Issues

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:55:00 +0000

Every six months IBM's x-Force security team releases a report about what software has had what vulnerabilities. Joomla! usually ranks pretty high, not because of vulnerabilities in the core, but because there are thousands of third party extensions (some not actively developed since Joomla! 1.0.1) that exist out in the world. Every six months I