Molajo Joomla! Day New England 2011

Hi. I am Matt. I am a Joomlaholic.

Distribution?

What is a distribution?

• Specialized collection of software bundled into a package.

Linux Distro Timeline

http://distrowatch.com

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

SIGNIFY MATURATION AND WIDESPREAD ADOPTION

Distributions

Benefits

• 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

Joomla! Distributions Joomla! Distributions in the wildin the wild

• Template companies

• Language-specific Distributions

• Non-profit Soapbox

• Most site builders

Nooku Server

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

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

Molajo

• Joomla! 1.6 Distribution

http://www.molajo.org

Joomla

Jomola

Jamloo

Loomja

Lomajo

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

GPL

Who is behind Molajo and jZenGarden?

• All Together, As A Whole Initiatives• Specialized teams and elders council

http://AllTogetherAsAWhole.org

Elders Council

A growing number of contributors building a collaborative, community-driven environment .

FEATURESJoomla! 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 for all content

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

• Utilizes new unified content events in 1.6

Amy Stephen

Construct Template Framework

• Designer/developer oriented template framework.

Matt Thomas

JBetolo

• 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 Back

• Comprehensive Twitter display module

Michael Babker

Molajo Router

• New router for Joomla

– Faster

– More flexible

– Easier to code

Hannes Papenberg

Access Control

• Simplified – View is an action

• Lower level always wins

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

Klas Berlič

The Future …

• Babs Gösgens, lead• Cristina Solana• Matt Thomas

Molajo Web site

http://molajo.org

jZenGarden

http://jzengarden.org

jZenGarden: Learning from Wordpress

• Free GPL Templates

• Install from within the Administrator Control Panel

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

The future

• Create a collaborative, community-driven environment

The future

• Continue contributing back to the Joomla! Project

• You decide!

collaborate@molajo.org