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At the recent Leadership Team summit in San Jose, CA, the Production Leadership Team discussed the best ways to outline the path forward for Joomla Development. The outcome was a vision statement as part of the strategy for focusing efforts as part of our new iterative approach to development.
The vision statement defines the desired goals with the next release and provides an inspiration point for potential additional related goals. It also helps the team and community in making better decisions. This doesn’t mean that features outside the scope of the vision statement won’t be considered and/or included, but they may have a reduced chance since they deviate from the vision. The vision for the next release is "Rediscover Content" and outlined below.
Read more: Rediscover Content: Vision for Next Year's Release
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water & stone announced recently that the 2010 Open Source CMS Market Share Survey is now open for all to participate in.
"The Open Source CMS Market Share Report was launched in 2008 by digital agency water&stone. The Report is non-commercial and released under an open license. Since its inception, the Open Source CMS Market Share Report has become the industry standard for purpose of defining market share and adoption rates in the open source content management system market. The final 2010 Report is expected to be published in early December, 2010."
We saw Joomla! pull ahead in 2009 from the previous year's report and given the growth we've experienced in the past year it would be great to see further advancement in the 2010 results.
Reports like this help to increase Joomla's brand awareness and market share in the Open Source CMS world. You can help with this by participating in the survey.
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The November issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here with news about exciting volunteer opportunities, along with inspirational Joomla! success stories, invaluable how-to articles, and so much more.
In this Issue:
Editorial
Joomla! Rising!, written by Dianne Henning
Read more: Joomla! Community Magazine - November 2010 Issue Released
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This past week the Joomla! Extensions Directory reached 6000 published listings. However, it also reached 138,000,000 downloads of extensions! This impressive number surpasses the other top open-source CMS competitors and shows substantial growth and extendability.
Read more about this achievement and what's coming up for the Joomla! Extensions Directory here.
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Introducing Joomla Press - Books reflect best practices and the mission, vision and values of the Joomla Community
Dive into more Joomla! knowledge
The releases for Joomla Press were announced October 1, 2010 during Joomla Day West in San Jose, California.
The first two titles slated for publishing are The Official Joomla! Book which is scheduled to be published in December 2010 and the second title Joomla! Explained: Your Step-by-Step Guide with a publishing date of early 2011.
The books will be the flagship releases in a new Joomla Press, representing a publishing alliance between Pearson, the global leader in education services and technology, and Open Source Matters, Inc. (OSM), the not-for-profit organization that supports the Joomla project.
A portion of the proceeds will go back to the Joomla! Project.