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In the two weeks following Eddie's announcement, teams were re-organized, and the community continued to grow.
Eben Moglen and the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) assisted the Joomla! core team beginning in August
2005, as indicated by Moglen's blog entry from that date and a related OSM announcement. [8] [9] The SFLC continue
to provide legal guidance to the Joomla! project. [10]
On August 18, 2005, Andrew Eddie called for community input on suggested names for the project. The core team
indicated that it would make the final decision for the project name based on community input. The core team
eventually chose a name that was not on the list of suggested names provided by the community.
On September 1, 2005 the new name, “Joomla!,” was announced. It is the English spelling of the Swahili word jumla
meaning “all together” or “as a whole.” [11]
On September 6, 2005, the development team called for logo submissions from the community, invited the
community to vote on the logo preferred, and announced the community's decision on September 22, 2005.
Following the logo selection, brand guidelines, a brand manual, and a set of logo resources were then published on
October 2, 2005 for the community's use. [12]
Joomla! (Joomla 1.0.0) was released on September 16, 2005. It was a re-branded release of Mambo 4.5.2.3 which,
itself, was combined with other bug and moderate-level security fixes.
[13] [13]
Joomla! won the Packt Publishing Open Source Content Management System Award in both 2006 and 2007.
On October 27, 2008, PACKT Publishing announced Johan Janssens the "Most Valued Person" (MVP) for his work
as one of the lead developers of the 1.5 Joomla Framework and Architecture. In 2009 Louis Landry received the
"Most Valued Person" award for his role as Joomla architect and development coordinator.
Joomla! version 1.5 was released on January 22, 2008. The most recent release (28 May 2010) is 1.5.18. [14]
In May and June 2010, beta versions of 1.6 were made available for testing purposes.
Deployment
Joomla can be installed manually from source code on a system running a web server which supports PHP
applications. Manual installation usually requires more time and experience than other alternatives such as installing
Joomla from a package management system or using a TurnKey Joomla appliance which pre-integrates Joomla and
its dependencies as a ready-to-use system [15] .
There are numerous web hosting companies who provide a control panel which automates the deployment of a basic
Joomla web site.
Joomla can also be installed via the Microsoft Web Platform Installer which installs Joomla on Windows and IIS.
The Web PI will automatically detect any missing dependencies such as PHP or MySQL then install and configure
them [16] before installing Joomla.
See also
• Drupal
• List of content management systems:PHP
• WordPress
References
• Severdia, Ron; Crowder, Kenneth (2009), Using Joomla: Building Powerful and Efficient Web Sites, O'Reilly
Media, ISBN 0596804946
• Jowers, Tim (2007), Open Source Pro: Joomla, Lulu.com, ISBN 1430306386
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