Joomla Announcements

Developer Documentation Guru Appointed to Core Team

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Category: Team News

Created on Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:59

 

Joomla!'s newest appointed core team member, Chris Davenport, believes open source software brings collective benefit to people from all walks of life.  In fact, it was a hard-nosed business decision which drew him to open source and the project, having seen he got more "bang for his buck" compared to proprietary software.

Chris, who lives in a village called Battlefield, near Shrewsbury, in the UK, has years of experience in IT and management.  He is presently a non-executive director of a small manufacturing business but has always kept a handle on IT.  His appointment to the core team will involve coordinating and creating developer documentation.

"Over time I found that open source is generally more flexible and better supported," he said.  "If you can speak the same language as the developers, then they are very amenable to fixing bugs and making improvements.  The same approach with proprietary companies falls on deaf ears; there's not the same ownership and pride that you get with open source."

 

 

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Joomla! 2006 Open Source Content Management System Award Winner

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Created on Tuesday, 14 November 2006 04:38

Packt Publishing today (14 November) announced Joomla! as the the winner of the 2006 Open Source Content Management System Award.

With 16,000 votes for more than 70 different Open Source Content Management Systems nominated for the award, Joomla! was judged winner of the final. After eight weeks of voting from visitors to www.PacktPub.com and judges from The Open Source Collective, MySQL, the Eclipse Foundation, and CMSPros, Joomla! triumphed with the most votes, winning $5,000.  

Joomla! is the youngest CMS of the five finalists having originated by the then Mambo development team in August 2005. Joomla! was chosen due to its ease of installation and use along with the active development and community that supports the project.

Core team member Alex Kempkens said the award was a wonderful surprise. "I would personally like to thank Packt for their contribution to the Joomlasphere — by publishing Joomla! guides and by running such a successful competition," he said.

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Joomla! Wins Again at UK LinuxWorld

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Created on Tuesday, 24 October 2006 12:00

Joomla! won Best Linux / Open Source Project at UK Linux and Open Source Awards 2006, in London tonight.

 

This is the second year running, the Joomla! team has won the prestigious award.  Louis Landry, Johan Janssens and Peter Russell accepted the award from LinuxUser and Developer magazine publisher Maggie Meer.

Johan described the win for Joomla! as "one for the community".  "The buzz around the Joomla! project is driven by our huge user base and this translates into what is fast becoming the most popular open source framework going," Johan said.

Chris Adams, of Rochen, who is a major sponsor of the Joomla! project was nominated as Best Linux Open Source ISP / Internet Host.  Unfortunately, Rochen missed out this year but it was great to have Rochen with us to celebrate.  "Chris and the Rochen guys are part of the Joomla! family ... this is as much Rochen's award as it is the developers and the communities."

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