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Joomla! turns 3, what a great milestone
Today the Open Source Content Management System called Joomla! turned 3 years old and that's something to be proud of for everyone.
I had the honor to be part of the small core group that made the historical move to leave Mambo and start Joomla! to make sure the code and the CMS that so many people loved and used was going to stay Open Source and live forever.
No sleep for a few weeks
Once we found out what the plans where with Mambo we decided as a group that we couldn't accept that and went into silent mode while setting up a whole new infrastructure, communication channels and re-branding Mambo to Joomla!.
It took us a few weeks of working day and night and finally at 17 august 2005 we hit the button and made a public announcement about what we had been doing and where we would be going.
The public announcement we made
Mambo Open Source Development Team - Letter to the community
Much has been said about the Mambo Open Source project and the establishment of the Mambo Foundation to benefit the future of Mambo.
We, the core development teams, unanimously believe:
- An open source project is about people producing free and open software and contributing to something as a team for the benefit of others.
- Open source projects reflect the spirit of collaboration and fun while garnering community feedback and providing good governance that allows for business to confidently invest in its development.
- Open source projects are open to the participation of anybody who can contribute value and is willing to work with the community.
We, the development team, have serious concerns about the Mambo Foundation and its relationship to the community. We believe the future of Mambo should be controlled by the demands of its users and the abilities of its developers. The Mambo Foundation is designed to grant that control to Miro, a design that makes cooperation between the Foundation and the community impossible.
- The Mambo Foundation was formed without regard to the concerns of the core development teams. We, the community, have no voice in its government or the future direction of Mambo. The Mambo Steering Committee made up of development team and Miro representatives authorized incorporation of the Foundation and should form the first Board. Miro CEO Peter Lamont has taken it upon himself to incorporate the Foundation and appoint the Board without consulting the two development team representatives, Andrew Eddie and Brian Teeman.
- Although Mr. Lamont through the MSC promised to transfer the Mambo copyright to the Foundation, Miro now refuses to do so.
What we will do: We will continue to develop and improve a version of this award-winning software project currently released under the GNU General Public License. We wish Miro and the Mambo Foundation well and regret that we are not able to work with them.
We have retained the Software Freedom Law Center to advise us in this matter and will release more information about our short-term plan in the near future.
Original source: Open Source Matters Foundation
A shock went trough the Open Source world and things started rolling, in just a few days almost the whole Mambo community moved to the new Joomla! sites, forums, chats and downloading the Joomla! CMS could begin.
It was an incredible time and I'm so glad I was there and was one of the few people that had the opportunity to work on this with people from over the whole planet, it's simply amazing what happened.
A special note, we did it guys and girls.
Andrew Eddie, Emir Sakic, Andy Miller, Rey Gigataras, Mitch Pirtle, Tim Broeker, Alex Kempkens, Jean-Marie Simonet, Levis Bisson, Andy Stewart, Peter Russell, Brad Baker, Brian Teeman, Michelle Bisson, Trijnie Wanders, Shayne Bartlett, Nick Annies, Johan Janssens.
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