PHP Programming Language - Cultural View

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Joomla
Developer(s) The Joomla Core Team [1]
Stable release 1.5.18 Wojmamni ama wojnaiki / May 28, 2010
Preview release
1.6 Beta [2] 3 / June 14, 2010
Development status Active
Written in PHP
Operating system Cross-platform
Size 6.4 MB (archived)
Type Content management system
License GNU General Public License
Website http://www.joomla.org/
Joomla! is an open source content management system platform for publishing content on the World Wide Web and
intranets as well as a Model–view–controller (MVC) Web application framework. It is written in PHP, stores data in
MySQL and includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs,
polls, search, and support for language internationalization.
Within its first year of release, Joomla was downloaded 2.5 million times. Over 5,000 free and commercial plug-ins
are available for Joomla. [3]
History
Joomla! was the result of a fork of Mambo by the Joomla! development team on August 17, 2005. At that time, the
Mambo name was trademarked by Miro International Pty Ltd, who formed a non-profit foundation with the stated
purpose to fund the project and protect it from lawsuits. [4] The Joomla! development team claimed that many of the
provisions of the foundation structure went against previous agreements made by the elected Mambo Steering
Committee, lacked the necessary consultation with key stake-holders and included provisions that violated core open
source values. [5]
The Joomla! development team created a web site called OpenSourceMatters.org to distribute information to users,
developers, web designers and the community in general. The project team leader Andrew Eddie, AKA
"MasterChief" wrote an open letter to the community [6] which appeared on the announcements section of the public
forum at mamboserver.com.
A little more than one thousand people had joined the opensourcematters.org web site within a day, most posting
words of encouragement and support, and the web site received the slashdot effect as a result. Miro CEO Peter
Lamont gave a public response to the development team in an article titled "The Mambo Open Source Controversy -
20 Questions With Miro". [7] This event created controversy within the free software community about the definition
of "open source". Forums at many other open source projects were active with postings for and against the actions of
both sides.