Swedisch Joomla!Day 3 November 2007

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Joomla!“What is Joomla?”

Joomla!day PresentationVästerås, Sweden

3 November 2007

Joomla!“What is Joomla?”

Joomla!day PresentationVästerås, Sweden

3 November 2007

3 November 2007 © www.joomla.org

Wilco Jansen aka WillebilJoomla! Core Team Member

Development Working Group Coordinator

About Me

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Presentation Overview

• The Joomla! Project• How are we organized?• How can you get involved?• Our current status...let’s throws some

statistics• The road to Joomla! 1.5• Joomla! Future

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What is Joomla?

Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help

you build websites and other powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla! is

an open source solution that is freely available to everybody.

The Joomla! project


Where are our users located?

The Joomla! project


Where are our users located?

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The Joomla! project


Joomla! concepts

• Opensource– Freedom– Choice– Control– Fun

• Ease of use– End User– Administrator– Developer– Designers

• Content Management– Keep is small and simple– Be flexible and agile– Designed to be extendible– Use 80/20 rule– Reduce choices

Barry Swharts : video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6127548813950043200

The Joomla! project


Joomla! philosophy

• Rock Solid Architecture• Flexibility built on Powerful Framework• Developers Tools• Outstanding User experience• International Recognition (50+ languages)• A great community!

The Joomla! project


Joomla! organisationHow are we organized?


Joomla! organisationHow are we organized?


Joomla! organisation

• Coreteam (16 members)– 3 project managers (Louis, Shayne, Johan)– 7 coordinators (Rob, Shayne, Ole, Robin, Brad,

Tonie and Wilco)• Work groups– 5 work groups: infrastructure,development,

translations, documentation and foundation– Around 250 members in working groups

• Community (you): we lost count...

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How are we organized?


Joomla! organisation

• All members are spread all over the world• Timezone differences• Lingual and cultural bariers• Means of communication:– Forum– Skype (voice, video and chat)– IRC– Mail, mailinglists– Joomla!days, gatherings, events etc.

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How are we organized?


How can you get involved?

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• No matter what you think youcan do, you can help!

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• Most of the contributers startin our forum helping others out

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• But how do I get involved intoone of the working groups?

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• Can we use people?

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• Can we use people?

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Joomla! In numbers (general statistics)

• 142.943 forum users (Nov. 1)• 9442 registered developers*• 1648 registered projects*• 2261 extensions ( extensions.joomla.org )• 5 TB traffic/month on main websites• Alexa rank 690 (1 Nov)

* On joomlacode.org since 10 March 2007

Let’s throw some statistics


www.ohloh.net

Let’s throw some statistics

The Road to Joomla! 1.5 final

The Road to Joomla! 1.5 final

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While at time it may appear at times that we do not move fast enough...

In a short amount of time we have accomplished a lot!

The Joomla! projectProject history


01 September 2005 Joomla! is born15 September 2005 Joomla! 1.0 released17 September 2005 Joomla! opens the forge01 January 2006 Joomla! 1.1 announcement06 February 2006 Joomla! opens developer network06 March 2006 Joomla! opens extensions site12 October 2006 Joomla! 1.5 Beta released27 October 2006 Joomla! releases official user manual12 December 2006 Joomla! 1.0.12 released13 March 2007 Joomla! Opens Gforge (JoomlaCode Launch)05 May 2007 Joomla! 1.5 Beta-2 released21 July 2007 Joomla! 1.5 RC1 released01 September 2007 Joomla! 1.5 RC2 released06 October 2007 Joomla! 1.5 RC3 released

The Joomla! projectProject history


Current status

• Joomla! RC3 is out• RC4 will be done– Fix of some finalisation tasks (memort usage,

profiling, performance improvements, translations)

– Fix of priority 1,2 and 3 issues in Tracker– Full sweep of forum (> 500 reports to go)

• Try to make every RC more stable• Try to release early and often

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The road to Joomla! 1.5


The $1.000.000 question

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• When will the final be out?

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• When will the final be out?• It’s done when it’s done...

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• When will the final be out?• It’s done when it’s done...• But what do we mean with that?

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• When will the final be out?• It’s done when it’s done...• But what do we mean with that?– Every RC needs to be more stable then the

previous one

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previous one– Fix tasks that need to be done

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previous one– Fix tasks that need to be done– Finish translations

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previous one– Fix tasks that need to be done– Finish translations

• Is RC4 the latest one?

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So why is Joomla! 1.5 so important?

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So why is Joomla! 1.5 so important?

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And why should you use it?



One step closer to total freedom of website content management!



• Power Of Simplicity– End User: more features in future.– Administrator: ease of use, reduction of

complexity and more control– Developer: faster development with lesser code

• Future development will use 1.5 as fundament

• Backward compatible with 1.0.x extensions

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One step closer to total freedom of website content management!


Joomla! Future

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Let’s have a look in the crystal ball


Joomla! future

• Joomla! 1.0.x– Maintenance mode

• Joomla! 1.5– Moving forward to RC

• Joomla! 1.6/1.7*– ACL extended– J!Package– Content versioning– Simple workflow– System level tagging

• Joomla! 2.0*– Refactory to PHP 5.2+– Remove PHP 4 Legacy

and 1.0.x backward compatability

– Framework level improvements like NBS, Database abstraction, new Database scheme etc.

Joomla! future


Google Summer Of Code Projects• 2006 research based

– Siteman (J!Explorer)– Node Based Scheme– Extensive ACL– Package manager– Ajax

• 2007 pragmatic approach– Usable end-result– Co-collaboration with other OS

projects (mootools and eclipse)

• 2007 Projects– Extending the Nested Sets Model

with 'Hardlinked Nested Sets’– Development of Jigg component for

Joomla! 1.5– Implementation of mootools in

Joomla! 1.5 framework – Email Interface for Publishing– Semantic Web Integration– Geo-component for Joomla!– Eclipse Plugin J!Code– Joomla 1.5 Forum component– General content recommendation

component for Joomla

Joomla! future


New projects like SoC?

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Joomla! future

Live Demonstration will be given in the next session

! ! ! R e m e m b e r : l i f e d e m o ’ s c a n g o w r o n g ! ! !

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Live Demonstration

http://localhost/j15demo1/

http://localhost/j15demo1/

Live demonstration• New installation• The global configuration• The media manager• The menu manager• Managing content• Default components• Modules• Caching• Templating

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Live Demonstration

Questions?

Technology

Swedisch Joomla!Day 3 November 2007