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Joomla! has been recognised by professionals and users alike by making the last phase of Packt's Open Source CMS Award Finals. We know we're the most popular Open Source CMS based on user numbers but now it's time for all Joomla! fans to demonstrate their support. You can read on or VOTE NOW!!!
Joomla! is competing against co-nominees e107, Drupal, Plone and Xoops, for the award. Packt Publishing announced the final phase of this competition earlier this month and has today opened up a page on its website where you can show your support (you've already clicked the VOTE NOW!!! link haven't you?). Besides, by making the effort, you might just win yourself a cool iPod Nano!
Packt, through its suite of tutorial publications, provides a great deal of support to the Open Source Community. And, through this inaugural award, will present the winning CMS with US $5,000. Second place will get US $3,000 and the third placed finalist will get US $2,000.
So remember: By voting for Joomla! you will not only help raise its profile and provide the chance for us to win some prize money, you get the chance to win an Apple iPod.
But there's more ... while we've got you in a voting frame of mind, you should also vote for the UK Linux User Awards (UK Linux & Open Source Awards 2006).
Thanks in advance for taking some time to demonstrate Joomla! does stick out from the bunch.
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September will be a busy month for Joomla!. We will be attending the O'Reilly EuroOSCON open source convention in Brussels. Our German community has also informed us about their first Joomla! Day, this will be the third Joomla!Day organised this year following the NL and UK, and the Italian community is organising their first meetup.
O'Reilly EuroOSCON Convention, September 18-21, 2006
The Joomla! project will showcase the upcoming 1.5 beta at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention at the Le Plaza Hotel in Brussels, Belgium on September 20th, 2006. This convention is one of the largest Open Source conventions in Europe and expects over 800+ attendees from around the world.
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![Joomla! 1.0.11](/images/stories/joomla/joomla_box_1010.jpg)
Joomla! 1.0.11 [ Sunbow ] is now available as of Monday 28th August 2006 24:00 UTC for download here and is being designated a critical security release.
All existing Joomla! users must upgrade to this version, due to several High Level vulnerabilities that affect all previous versions of Joomla!
We have always been fully committed to a security first principle and new initiatives have and will continue to be started to reinforce and continue this principle. Joomla! 1.0.11 highlights a redoubled effort to put security at the forefront of everyones lexicon.
Like any and all software, security is a continually evolving and constant battle between application developers and hackers. The increased security threats discovered in the Joomla!Universe indicate nothing more than an increasing usage of Joomla! throughout the world and thus an increasing interest from hackers.
It does however serve to remind everyone, both application developers and application users that security is an eternal vigil and one cannot rest.
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![The Joomla! guys at the San Fransisco Expo The Joomla! guys at the San Fransisco Expo](/images/stories/linuxworld/joomla_team.jpg)
We wanted everyone to see the buzz at the San Francisco LinuxWorld, so we set up a webcam for everyone to check things out.
Johan Janssens and Louis Landry are attending the Joomla! stand at the show. They guys have been inundated with visitors who want to know more about Joomla!
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![View from the Moscone Center View from the Moscone Center](/images/stories/linuxworld/view_from_moscone.jpg)
Joomla!, the world's most popular Open Source CMS, will be participating at its first San Francisco LinuxWorld next week. For those of you who can remember, we were there last year and won a couple of awards, but did so under a different name.
Together with the award-winning 1.0 series, we will be previewing the upcoming Joomla! 1.5 Beta, which is evidence of the maturity the project has attained in a short time. Lead developer Johan Janssens, who will be attending, said the forthcoming release marks a significant milestone.
"Our baby Joomla! was born nearly 12-months ago, cut his teeth with our first release and now the toddler is gaining confidence," he quipped. "You may laugh at the metaphor but the amount of work put into Joomla! by our teams has seen us endure great difficulties and reap the rewards of a paradigm shift in thinking," he said.