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Hi. I am Mat t . I am a J oomlaholic.

What is a dist r ibut ion?

• Collection of software bundled into an easy-to-use package.

• There are hundreds of distributions of Linux, evidence of the strength of their community.

http://distrowatch.comhttp://www.linux.org/dist/list.html

Linux Dist ro T imeline

http://distrowatch.com

http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html

SIGN OF OP E N SOUR CE CMS MAT UR AT ION

Dist r ibut ions

Dist r ibut ions

• Broaden appeal to vertical markets

• Rapid deployment == easier adoption

• Create innovation and inspire development

• Incubators

Drupal

• Drupal has many distributions that help that community offer innovative solutions quickly.

http://drupaldistrowatch.com/drupal/distributions

http://groups.drupal.org/distribution-profiles

Drupal

• Pressflow

• Acquia

• Open Atrium

• Open Publish

J oomla! Dist r ibut ions in t he wild

• Template companies

• Language-specific Distributions

• Non-profit Soapbox

• Most site builders

Nooku Ser ver

• Nooku Server, a multi-site distribution of Joomla! 1.5

http://blog.nooku.org/2010/12/nooku-server-joomla-on-steroids

“FR OM J OOML A ”Molajo

Molajo

• The Molajo logo symbolizes Collaboration and Unity. It represents two crocodiles that share a single stomach.

• Based on an ancient West African symbol that is still used today as a reminder that we are all one, despite cultural differences.

• It teaches that these differences must be embraced, not battled.

Molajo

• Collaborative, community driven distribution of Joomla! 1.6

• Focus on engaging the Joomla! developer and site builder community

• Contributes back to core project - all code available for inclusion

• Compatible licenses – GPL

Who is behind Molajo and jZenGarden?

• All Together, As A Whole Initiatives

• Specialized teams and elders council

http://AllTogetherAsAWhole.org

ATA AW Admins

• Amy Stephen, lead

• Hils Cheyne

• Nicholas Dionysopoulos

• Robert Vining

E lders Council• Wilco J ansen

Former OSM board member, Development Coordinator of Joomla! 1.5

• J ohan J anssensCo-founder of Joomla!, lead developer and architect of Joomla! 1.5, founder of Nooku

• Ole B ang Ot tosenFormer Core team member, member of OSM Community Oversight Committee (COC)

• B rian TeemanCo-founder of OSM and Joomla!

• A rno Zijlst raCo-founder of Joomla!

A growing number of cont r ibutors building a collaborat ive, communit y-dr iven environment .

Coordinat ion Team

• Hils Cheyne, lead

• Bo Astrup

• David Deutsch

• Babs Gösgens

• Jen Kramer

• Manoel Silva

• Cristina Solana

• Matt Thomas

• Seth Warburton

jZenGarden

• Cristina Solana, lead

• Ercan Özkaya

• Stian Didriksen

• Michael Babker

Development Team

• Matt Thomas, lead

• Michael Babker

• Marco Barbosa

• Klas Berlič

• Jeff Channell

• Nicholas Dionysopoulos

• Stian Didriksen

• Babs Gösgens

• Ercan Özkaya

• HannesPapenberg

• Chris Rault

• Gobezu Sewu

• Cristina Solana

• Amy Stephen

Usabilit y Team

• Manoel Silva, lead

• Bo Astrup

• Marco Barbosa

• David Deutsch

• Hils Cheyne

• Seth Warburton

• Arno Zijlstra

Translat ions Team

• Ole Bang Ottosen, lead

• Manoel Silva

• Parth Lawate

• Svein Wisnaes

Maintainer Teams

• Seth Warburton, lead

• Each developer

• Support staff

FIR ST MOL A J O DIST R IB UT IONJ oomla! 1.6 and what else?

Installer

• Proposed Joomla! 1.7 installer from JUX group

• Integrated language support

Chris Rault

Minima

• Administrator Template

• Completely different administrative experience

Marco Barbosa

Molajo Tools

• Molajo version of Admin Tools Pro

Nicholas Dionysopoulos

Responses – social plugin suite f or all content

• Voting, comments, social network icons, subscriptions/notifications, hit counts, tags …

• Utilizes new unified content events in 1.6

Amy Stephen

Const ruct Template Framework

• Designer/developer oriented template framework.

Matt Thomas

J B etolo

• Front and back-end CSS/JS file merging, minimization and compression utility with CDN support and control over CSS/JS ordering.

Gobezu Sewu

Tweet Display B ack

• Comprehensive Twitter display module

Michael Babker

Access Cont rol

• Simplified – View treated like other actions (ex Edit or Delete) so the same groups can be used

• Proper override of core functionality with system plugins that fire onAfterInitiatialize that load a library and layout overrides

A nd much more …

• Many other tools that help site builders implement a Joomla! web site

• Babs Gösgens, lead

• Cristina Solana

• Matt Thomas

Molajo Web site

http://molajo.org

• Cristina Solana, lead

• Stian Didriksen

• Ercan Özkaya

• Michael Babker

jZenGarden

http://jzengarden.org

jZenGarden: Learning f rom Wordpress

• Free GPL Templates

• Install from within the Administrator Control Panel

• Compatible with Molajo, Nooku Server and Joomla! 1.5/1.6

T he Fut ure …

• ATAAW Site rebuilt with Molajo

• Strengthen and expand collaboration with other Joomla! developers

• Continue contributing back to the Joomla! Project

• You decide!

Fut ure

http://tinyurl.com/MolajoSong

collaborate@molajo.org