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Thank You
Today is Joomla!'s 5th birthday.
On September 1st, 2005 the joomla.org sites were launched. Until that day, the Joomla! name was completely unknown to the world. This is a screenshot of Google's results before the launch:
Joomla 5 Years Later
Joomla is now one of the most popular software projects in the world.
Approximately 2.5% of the web runs on Joomla. It is used by organizations as large as Apple, McDonald’s and the United Nations and by millions of people for their companies, hobbies and charities.
 How did...
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Joomla and Linux Event in Vellore India
Congraulations to the Tamil Joomla Community which sucessfully held a Joomla and Linux event for more than 350 students.
The conference was at Ooris College in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India on August 1st. Vellore is about 150 km west of the city of Chennai.
Sstudents and IT professionals from Chittore, Krishnagiri and Vellore districts participated in this conference. The topics were:
- What is a CMS?
- What is Joomla?
- Joomla Features
- How to install Linux
- Problems during installation
- Troubleshooting problems
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McDonald's Uses Joomla
McDonald's is one of the world's largest fast food companies, serving nearly 47 million customers daily.
Their website for the Arabian Peninsula uses Joomla: www.McDonaldsArabia.com. The homepage is just a splash screen but beyond that are multiple pages of Joomla graphic design excellence. The site is an excellent example of how well Joomla works for multilingual websites and also for right-to-left languages such as Arabic.
The site was built for McDonald's by MRM Worldwide who are reponsible for some of the world's largest and most prestigious advertising campaigns.
It's also worth mentioning that McDonald's are using Drupal in Australia. These...
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Open Source Matters Seeks Your Nominations for New Board Members
In December 2009, the Joomla! community was asked to nominate new Open Source Matters (OSM) board members.
OSM is entrusted with providing organizational, legal, and financial support for the Joomla! project. You can find out more about the organization at http://opensourcematters.org.
With those serious responsibilities and the recent departure of two long-serving board members, the decision has been made to expand the board once more.
We are looking for your nominations for new OSM board members.
We acknowledge that the greater worldwide Joomla! community can help us a lot in this election process,...
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The New Joomla.org - Coming Soon!
Joomla.org is growing!
With so many recent changes to the Joomla.org family, as well as the anticipation of Joomla! 1.6, a restructuring of the websites is due.
Joomla.org is one of the largest websites in the world (something to be very proud of). As with all large sites that are run by multiple teams, one of the biggest challenges is keeping everything consistent. We see this with corporations like Microsoft, Apple and even Dell.com, to name a few, and Joomla! is no exception.
Over the past 4 years, Joomla!'s number of sub sites has grown from a handful to nearly 20, with each...
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