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Joomla Petition is started
It seems that some major news outlets are talking about Joomla’s recent licensing change, among the big boys were Wired (Joomla Sticks With the GPL), CMS Watch (Joomla! CMS faces a governance challenge) and Linux.com (GPL compliance issues are tearing Joomla! apart). Interestingly it seems some inaccuracies were creeping to…
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End Users Talk About Joomla
As it appers to me, there are lots of community made components, available for free. When it comes to question, whereas to buy, or make component, that fits situation, I usually choose to adapt one of the free scripts – write from scratch. Then I am sure, that it will…
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Whose Joomla is it anyway?
The core team of Joomla has finally (after 2 months of high tension discussion) issued a statement about a change in the license of Joomla. I have been keeping my posts relatively neutral, encouraging people to express an opinion, but I have had several people ask me for my take…
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The GPL license debate at Joomla still going after 45 days
The GPL discussion at the joomla.org forums is still raging on, the thread has now become the most posted to thread in existence and its only a month and a half old! The debate has expanded from the license into the business models of the the 3rd party developer community.…
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How Many Websites Use Joomla: 30 million?
Joomla is a powerful open source content management system that has grown in popularity since its rebranding from Mambo in 2006. Its two key features of ease of administration and flexibility of templating have led to it being used to power everything from corporate Intranets to school district sites.
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J!Contact: An Integration of IntelliContact and Joomla
Joomlashack has partnered with IntelliContact to develop J!Contact, a free component that integrates the registration process of Joomla, Community Builder and SMF into IntelliContact.
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MindValley Labs
40 Tactics to Boost Your Site Performance Check out the free course by MindValley Labs. They study conversion tactics and share ideas and implementation strategies with you.
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Joomla 1.5 becomes one step closer
Many of you have been waiting with great anticipation for the release of Joomla 1.5, the next step in the evolution of Joomla as the world’s leading Open Source Content Management System. First announced in April, 2006, Joomla 1.5 is almost here! Last week Joomla.org announced the release of Beta 1.5-2,…
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Early Results from Joomla Survey
Just two weeks after its release on Joomlashack.com, more than 2,000 Joomla users have answered our first-ever Joomla Survey. Joomlashack has many big questions about Joomla users that the survey will help answer, such as: Is Joomla mostly used by developers? Nearly half of all respondents have made changes to…
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Can Joomla! extensions be released under non-GPL compatible licenses?
A few Joomla bloggers have quickly noted a fascinating thread currently underway on the forums at joomla.org. Essentially, the license [of the development build] has been changed for Joomla 1.5. There is significant potential for the change to greatly change professional development of 3rd party extensions. Will this mean that…
Compass Designs 