The Joomlashack Blog
Community Announcement
- Written by TJ Baker TJ Baker
- Published: 18 May 2007 18 May 2007
Greetings and Happy New Year to all!
This purpose of this letter is just to fill you in on some changes to come in 2006 and to recap our first year with the Joomla! community.
A lot of us have a new sense of freshness, especially since the
Joomla/Mambo rebranding and Id like to personally thank the entire community
for such a great success on the behalf of JoomlaShack. There are so
many success stories I can't even begin to list them individually. Because of you, in just the past 3 months we were
able to move our data do a dedicated server, create 8 free templates
for the community, 20 variations of commercial templates and assorted
modules as well as helping to launch over 60 Joomla powered sites,
assist in the development of 3 community sites and donate over
$1,000.00 in donations to victims of hurricane Katrina. Again, thank
you! This would have never been possible without such a dedicated
community and excellent camaraderie among other Joomla! developers..
Linux World Expo London 2006
- Written by TJ Baker TJ Baker
- Published: 18 May 2007 18 May 2007
Well, another successful week in the Joomla! universe.
In case you didn't hear this week in London Joomla! had bestowed upon it for the second year in succession the Best Linux / Open Source Project award by LinuxUser and Developer Magazine
The event itself was a rip roaring success literally hundreds of (if not a few thousand) people turned up at the booth eager to learn about Joomla! in general and Joomla! 1.5b in particular. The first public unveiling of Joomla! 1.5b had tongues wagging and imaginations soaring, the heartening thing was that people just simply "got it". Day one was spent on our feet, I got to London early afternoon and headed straight to the Exhibition centre suitcase in hand to be met by fellow Joomla! community member Mitchell Annable (Nottingham UK) and Joomla! core developer Johan Janssens (Diest Belgium). I was there five minutes before Johan turned to me and said "Man the booth I need to go hire a tux for tonight" - So in at the deep end for me! From minute one it was non stop I didn't get a breather, not even a drink of water, until late afternoon. By this time Johan's fellow core team members Peter Russell (Leeds, UK) and my buddy Louis Landry (New Orleans, USA) had also returned to the booth, although we didn't get a chance to even say "hello" to each other for at least two hours. Day two was a little quieter (but not much) and it was fun to see Johan holding an impromptu conference over at the Drupal booth sharing ideas and answering questions while Peter and Louis went and did some PR "work" with the LinuxUser and Developer magazine booth babes - check out the pics over at Joomla.org
From a Joomlashack perspective it was great to meet a some of the UK based Joomlashack community that popped by to say hello, it's always nice to meet people in person and hear that we're doing a great job - so a big thanks goes out to those that I met