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Joomla! 1.5 Beta Release Date Announced

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Category: Project Release News

Created on Saturday, 30 September 2006 07:57

Joomla! lead developer Johan Janssens announced the official Joomla! 1.5 Beta release date at the German Joomla! Day, in Bonn, today.

The announcement marks the most significant milestone in Joomla's short history.  "We've decided to release on the 12th of October — exactly one year since we wrote our first line of Joomla! code," Johan said.  "The coding effort by the 1.5 dev team has been amazing," he added.  "We have built this release from the ground up ... this represents 127,000 lines of code and had this been a commercial venture, about 32 man years of effort equivalent to $1.7 million in wages."  These figures put the value of the core team's work into sharp perspective.

The enthusiastic German Joomla! Day attendees listened intently as Johan made his best attempt at a Steve Jobs-style "one more thing" in announcing the release date while previewing the Beta to them.

We caught up with one of the core developers, Louis Landry, who wished everyone well via his mobile phone (Louis had been enjoying a well-deserved day at the beach).  "I hope everyone has as much fun in Bonn as we did in San Francisco (LinuxWorld) and find as many friends as we found," Louis said.  "Joomla! 1.5 means freedom of choice ... you choose how it operates, you choose how it integrates ... you choose what the output is, you choose how users are authenticated," he said.  "It's a simplified but more powerful system.  As a developer, it gives me the freedom and flexibility to build anything I want."

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Joomla! Summer of Code - The curtain has fallen

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Category: General News

Created on Tuesday, 19 September 2006 15:20

On May 23rd, 2006, the Joomla! team joined the Google Summer of Code program which enables student developers to create new open source applications or to assist already established open source projects. Project management was done by Wilco Jansen and Louis Landry with background support of Johan Janssens. Beside them, a team of mentors selected six projects and six students to participate in the development of specific functionality which will be important for future releases of Joomla!. Development was performed using the pre-released version of Joomla! 1.5. For their effort, the students earned $4,500 USD and participated in the development of new functionality for future releases of Joomla!

The selected projects were centered around Web services, integration, security, database abstraction and Web accessibility. This effort exploited some of the exciting new capabilities which are coming in Joomla! 1.5 due later in 2006.

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Meet Rob Schley - Joomla's New Quality and Testing Coordinator

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Category: Team News

Created on Saturday, 16 September 2006 13:57

Rob Schley, of Los Angeles, California, has been appointed as the team coordinator for our Quality and Testing Workgroup .  Rob replaces Robin Muilwijk, who has served in this position during the past year and has helped establish critical quality processes essential to our overall release operations. Robin will stay on as a global forum moderator and a Quality and Testing working group member and will continue to leverage his expertise within this group. "I'm honored to have been a part of such a great team and I'll continue to participate so I'm not going far.", said Robin.

Rob's forum persona is RobS and by the professional quality of his posts became an extremely valuable poster of security-related information about Joomla!  Rob presently works for a small hosting company based out of LA, and also does security audits. He is currently preparing to start his own business built around the Joomla! phenomena.

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