Joomla!, Drupal and … You !

Presentation of the current state of Joomla!, what can

we learn and where can we work together

DrupalCONF, October 2005

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About me

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Johan JanssensJoomla Core Member – Development team leader

http://www.joomla.org

Contents

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‘All great things come in three’

1.Joomla

2.Drupal

3.Working together

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Joomla!

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Part 1

Joomla!

http://www.joomla.org

Joomla!

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• What is Joomla!

• Why Joomla ?

• History

• How are we organised

• Roadmap

• Resources

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What is Joomla! ?

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Joomla! is a reband of Mambo 4.5.2

Joomla! is a Content Management System (CMS) created by the same award-winning team that brought the Mambo CMS to its current state of stardom.

http://www.joomla.org

Why Joomla! ?

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• phonetic spelling of the word ‘Jumla’.

• means ‘all together’

The name

The community

• Joomla is more then just software, it is people

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History

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• 17 augst 2005 – open letter to the community

• 01 sept 2005 - new name announced

• 17 sept 2005 – opened new forge

• 22 sept 2005 – new logo announce

• 06 oct 2005 – Joomla wins ‘Best Linux / Open Source Project

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How are we organised ?

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• Core 25 members

• Workgroups 160 members

• Community 10k

People

Resources

• Forum 1000 visitors a day

• Forge 450 project / 4750 developers

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How are we organised ?

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Roadmap

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Version 1.1 early november 2005

Version 1.2 end Q1 2006

Version 1.3 end Q2 2006

Version 2.0 end 2006

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Roadmap

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Version 1.1• Backend translations

• RTL language support

• Move to UTF-8

• SSL and improved SEF

• Triggers for session and user management

Version 1.2

• Database abstraction

• Full ACL

• Caching

• Template engine (patTemplate)

• FTP installer

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Roadmap

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Version 1.3

Version 2.0

• Usability and Accessibilty (WCAG 2.0)

• Content versioning

• Update handling

CMS framework built with PHP 5

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Resources

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• www.joomla.org – the home site

• developer.joomla.org – the developer site

• help.joomla.org – the documentation site

• forum.joomla.org – the community forums

• demo.joomla.org – the demo site

http://www.joomla.org

Drupal

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Part 2

Drupal

http://www.joomla.org

Drupal

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Working together

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Part 3

Working togther

http://www.joomla.org

Working together ?

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• Cross system authentication

• Easy export/import of content

• Working together on libraries

• Exchanging knowledge

• ….

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The end

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