Recently, Open Source Matters received an unsolicited proposal for the management of http://demo.joomla.org. After consideration and consultation with the Community Oversight Committee, the OSM board the Community Oversight Committee determined that, in the interest of fairness, others should also be invited to submit proposals.
Open Source Matters is requesting proposals for the management of the Joomla!® demo site (http://demo.joomla.org). The existing Joomla!® demo site has been highly successful, with an average of 25,000 registrations monthly. OSM reasonably expects the number of registrations to increase with more prominent displays of the links to the site on the joomla.org family of websites. The joomla.org sites now receive approximately 5 million visits per month.
This is an open and competitive process. Responses to this RFP ("proposals") received after December 9, 2009 will not be considered.
To learn more about the detailed requirements, please read the complete Request for Proposals.
The Joomla! Project plans to have major multi-day conferences beginning as early as November 2010. Community members in a city or region who would like to consider hosting a major conference are encouraged to submit expressions of interest followed by formal proposals. The Request For Proposals gives instructions for putting together a proposal. The events team will work with interested groups to prepare proposals.
Up to four events will be planned in a 12 month period starting in November of 2010. There will be a maximum of one event per quarter and one per continent. The events will last 3 to 5 days. Local organizing committees will choose the theme of each conference and manage the program with the support of the events team and Open Source Matters. Community members and potential organizers are encouraged to use the events forum for discussion of ideas and proposals.
The first ever Joomla! event specifically for third party developers will be in New York City on December 5 and 6.Focused on the transition to Joomla! 1.6, the Joomla! Developer conference will feature all four development coordinators (Louis Landry, Sam Moffatt, Ian MacLennan, Mark Dexter), master Joomla! developer Andrew Eddie, Hannes Papenberg from the 1.6 release team and MooTools team member Aaron Newton.
Joomla! 1.6 is currently at alpha 2 status, so this is the time for extension and custom developers to begin working with its new features such as Access Control Lists, JForm, nested sets and other enhancements. The conference is appropriate for developers who have experience working with Joomla! as extension developers, custom developers, and in house staff. Tickets are 0.
The Joomla! Project thanks Rochen Performance Hosting, Joomla! Showroom and the Joomla! User Group New York for their sponsorship of the event, which, among other things, is supporting the attendance of six student and young non commercial developers at the conference.
The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.15 [Wojmamni ama mamni]. It has been three months since Joomla 1.5.14 was released on July 30, 2009.
The Development Working Group's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.
Fixed problem converting UTF-8 characters to ASCII (18142)
Added option to disallow users to view extension XML files (18353)
Fixed problem with onAfterDisplayTitle event and PHP 5.3 (18430)
Fixed problem with displaying error messages with right-to-left languages (18537)
Statistics
Statistics for the 1.5.15 release period:
Joomla 1.5.15 contains:
60 issues fixed in SVN
59 commits
Tracker activity resulted in a net increase of 15 active issues:
185 new reports
110 closed
60 fixed in SVN
At the time the 1.5.15 release was packaged, the tracker had 220 active issues:
103 open
92 confirmed
25 pending
Joomla! Bug Squad
Thanks to the Joomla Bug Squad for their dedicated efforts investigating reports, fixing problems, and applying patches to Joomla. If you find a bug in Joomla, please report it on the 1.5 Bug Tracker.
Active members of the Joomla Bug Squad during this last release cycle include: Ian MacLennan and Mark Dexter co-coordinators; Airton Torres, Alan Langford, Amy Stephen, Andras Debreczeni, Andrea Tarr, Ankit Ahuja, Christophe Demko, Dennis Hermacki, Elin Waring, Ercan Ozkaya, Flavia Silveira, Gergő Erdősi, Hannes Papenberg, Jean-Marie Simonet, Jennifer Marriott, Johnathan Cheung, Joseph LeBlanc, Julio Pontes, Kevin Devine, Klas Berlič, Marijke Stuivenberg, Mati Kochen, Ole Bang Ottosen, Pete Nurse, Peter van Westen, Ron Severdia, Samuel Moffatt, Vicki Payne, and Will Mavis.
A warm welcome to the newest members of the Joomla Bug Squad: Andras Debreczeni, Andrea Tarr, Ankit Ahuja, Christopher Raymond, Geo Hern, Naveen Gavini, Peter van Westen, Ron Severdia, Vicki Payne, and Will Mavis.
Joomla! is a finalist in the "Hall of Fame" and "Best Open Source PHP CMS" Awards sponsored by Packt Publishing. We'd encourage all Joomla! fans to vote for Joomla for both awards. With the exciting news about the implementation of Access Control Lists (ACL) in Joomla 1.6 and the incredible growth of all parts of the Joomla Project, now is a time to celebrate the great successes of this community. Over 1000 sites in the Site Showcase, 3500 extensions in the JED, 150 Resources in the JRD and almost 13 million downloads, what a great set of accomplishments by everyone in the Joomla community.
Remember that you can also vote for best extension and best template and nominate someone who you think is a Joomla MVP. There are so many great contributors who could be nominated. Think of all those people who make the JED, JRD, Showcase, Forums, JoomlaCode and Joomla itself possible.
Thanks to everyone who nominated Joomla for the Best Open Source PHP CMS Award and for all you do to support Joomla.
It is possible to read the contents of an extension's XML file and find the version number of the installed extension. This could allow people to exploit a known security flaws for a specific version of an extension.
Affected Installs
All 1.5.x installs prior to and including 1.5.14 are affected.
Solution
Turn on Apache mod_rewrite and configure your .htaccess file to filter out XML files. In the htaccess.txt file shipped with version 1.5.15, lines 35-39 contain example code that will deny access to XML files. You can incorporate this code (or similar code) into your .htaccess file. Be sure to test that it does not cause problems on your site.
JOOBLOGs GalleryjGallery is a plugin released by JOOBLOGs.COM.
It's similar YOOGallery but with extra features like:
* Horz bar: Scrollable - Navigator - and more
This's alpha version that NOT work with IE and could make conflict with some mods / plgs that use mootools. Please check and give me your feedback.
In this version:
* Fixed conflict mode that can work in noConflict mode by switch to jcarousel plugin.
* jcarousel can also allow for some configures
* Layout changed.
* Multi template allowed. With this option you can choose each template for each gallery.
* Choose which view mode that plugin will active.
EmbedChessboardPlugin to embed a javascript chessboard in joomla articles for replaying chess games.
The plugin enables a new bbcode tag in joomla articles that translates in a graphical chessboard, such as:
[pgn parameter=value ...]
chess games notation in PGN format
[/pgn]
Example:
[pgn initialHalfmove=5 autoplayMode=none]
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Qb6
[/pgn]
The plugin is based on the pgn4web tool, a tutorial, including configuration options and tag parameters, is available at the pgn4web wiki:
http://code.google.com/p/pgn4web/wiki/User_Notes_joomla
PhonebookComponent for online management of a phone book.
Allows adding phone numbers to users and / or visitors, allows the publication Automatic / manual for phone numbers
Real Time Ocean DataThis module is based on data from "Oceanweather Inc"
'Ocean Data' show the following real time images
Global Data Mediterranean sea
North Atlantic Middle Atlantic
South Atlantic North Indian
South Indian North West Pacific
North East Pacific South Pacific
for every ocean show:
wave height, pressure, temperature
for registered user it can be downloaded here.
The configurable parameters are:
the size of the image
the map type
the default view (static image or image loop)
the loop time
CommunityPolls for Artio JoomSEFThis plugin adds search engine friendly URLs (SEF) and metatags capability for the Community Polls extension using JoomSEF extension.
SuggestionTurn user feedback into action:
1. users share ideas.
2. users vote on, comment on, and donate (bribe) on the best.
3. you respond, implement & repeat!
This is my first Joomla! component. What do you think?
Val UploaderVal Uploader is Joomla! module that uploads files to server in a selected directory and file type.
Features:
* Possibility of enter the max lenght of file to upload.
* Accept all file types with any selected types.
* Overwrite existing files without confirmation.
* Additional check on the attempt to move the uploaded file to the new place.
* W3C XHTML validate (no errors, notices, warnings ).
* Support Joomla 1.5.
* Implemented to avoid AJAX libs conflicts.
* Version for Joomla 1.5 implemented using Native classes and structures.
AD TestimonialAD Testimonials was developed to provide a user friendly interface for creating testimonials. It provides categories and images. The component provides detailed submitter information and a module to place testimonials throughout the website.
Specifications
* Current Version: 1.0
* PHP Version: 5 or higher
* License: GNU/GPL Version 3
* Joomla! 1.5.9 | 1.5.15 Tested
* 6 Month Support Price: 25.00 USD
Features
* Add and edit testimonials
* Include company name, website, contact, position, email and more
* Include an image with the testimonials
* Over 25 pre-configured layout options with more coming soon
* Parameters for image sizes and to hide specific information such as date or website
* Categories for creating separate testimonial sections
* Module for displaying testimonials randomly or serially
* Flash Uploader for images
* Search Engine Friendly URLs
* In program help guide
* ... AND MORE
CyrAcademisatorThis module adds an input form for the transliteration tool CyrAcademisator to your frontend.
CyrAcademisator was made especially for academic use at universities and for research purposes. It makes possible a fast conversion of Russian texts to established scientific transliteration styles. A conversion back to Cyrillic is possible, as it is possible to convert from one transliteration to another. Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian characters are recognized and can be entered into the text field with a provided virtual Russian keyboard.
FEATURES
* Transliteration of Russian Cyrillic texts to and from
ISO/R 9, ISO 9 / GOST 7.79A, GOST 7.79B, Scientific transliteration, ALA-LC (diacritics), Translit
* Transcription of Russian Cyrillic texts to German (Duden), Danish (Dansk Sprognævn)
* Conversion between all transliteration styles
* Conversion from all transliteration styles to any transcription style
* Recognition of Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian characters
* Virtual Russian keyboard with support of Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian characters (Javascript)
* Transliterations can be converted back to Cyrillic
* Localised for English, Russian, German and Danish
Vm2MageThis extension allows you to migrate your shopdata from VirtueMart to Magento. The migration using Vm2Mage is simple and efficient, but because of various parameters and selection-methods you have full control over which data are migrated to Magento. Vm2Mage is the ideal way to switch over from VirtueMart to Magento.
Vm2Mage uses a component within Joomla! 1.5 and an extra module within Magento, which communicate with eachother through XML-RPC. For the setup and other tasks, the tutorials on Yireo.com help you out.
The software is free, but does not come with official support. In our Yireo Shop you can purchase an extra support package or an installation service as well.
Vm2Mage is created by the same people who invented MageBridge, which offers a visual bridge between Joomla! and Magento. You do not need MageBridge to use Vm2Mage.
Folkfreun.de BlueDieses ist die blaue Version des folkfreun.de-Templates, basierend auf dem (weitgehend) barrierefreien und im Joomla 1.5 enthaltenen BEEZ. Es vermeidet...
Joomla-Newsfeeds 
Recently, Open Source Matters received an unsolicited proposal for the management of 
The Joomla! Project plans to have major multi-day conferences beginning as early as November 2010. Community members in a city or region who would like to consider hosting a major conference are encouraged to submit expressions of interest followed by formal proposals. The 
jGallery is a plugin released by JOOBLOGs.COM.
It's similar YOOGallery but with extra features like:
* Horz bar: Scrollable - Navigator - and more
This's alpha version that NOT work with IE and could make conflict with some mods / plgs that use mootools. Please check and give me your feedback.
In this version:
* Fixed conflict mode that can work in noConflict mode by switch to jcarousel plugin.
* jcarousel can also allow for some configures
* Layout changed.
* Multi template allowed. With this option you can choose each template for each gallery.
* Choose which view mode that plugin will active.
Plugin to embed a javascript chessboard in joomla articles for replaying chess games.
The plugin enables a new bbcode tag in joomla articles that translates in a graphical chessboard, such as:
[pgn parameter=value ...]
chess games notation in PGN format
[/pgn]
Example:
[pgn initialHalfmove=5 autoplayMode=none]
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Qb6
[/pgn]
The plugin is based on the pgn4web tool, a tutorial, including configuration options and tag parameters, is available at the pgn4web wiki:
http://code.google.com/p/pgn4web/wiki/User_Notes_joomla
Component for online management of a phone book.
Allows adding phone numbers to users and / or visitors, allows the publication Automatic / manual for phone numbers
This module is based on data from "Oceanweather Inc"
'Ocean Data' show the following real time images
Global Data Mediterranean sea
North Atlantic Middle Atlantic
South Atlantic North Indian
South Indian North West Pacific
North East Pacific South Pacific
for every ocean show:
wave height, pressure, temperature
for registered user it can be downloaded here.
The configurable parameters are:
the size of the image
the map type
the default view (static image or image loop)
the loop time
This plugin adds search engine friendly URLs (SEF) and metatags capability for the Community Polls extension using JoomSEF extension.
Turn user feedback into action:
1. users share ideas.
2. users vote on, comment on, and donate (bribe) on the best.
3. you respond, implement & repeat!
This is my first Joomla! component. What do you think?
Val Uploader is Joomla! module that uploads files to server in a selected directory and file type.
Features:
* Possibility of enter the max lenght of file to upload.
* Accept all file types with any selected types.
* Overwrite existing files without confirmation.
* Additional check on the attempt to move the uploaded file to the new place.
* W3C XHTML validate (no errors, notices, warnings ).
* Support Joomla 1.5.
* Implemented to avoid AJAX libs conflicts.
* Version for Joomla 1.5 implemented using Native classes and structures.
AD Testimonials was developed to provide a user friendly interface for creating testimonials. It provides categories and images. The component provides detailed submitter information and a module to place testimonials throughout the website.
Specifications
* Current Version: 1.0
* PHP Version: 5 or higher
* License: GNU/GPL Version 3
* Joomla! 1.5.9 | 1.5.15 Tested
* 6 Month Support Price: 25.00 USD
Features
* Add and edit testimonials
* Include company name, website, contact, position, email and more
* Include an image with the testimonials
* Over 25 pre-configured layout options with more coming soon
* Parameters for image sizes and to hide specific information such as date or website
* Categories for creating separate testimonial sections
* Module for displaying testimonials randomly or serially
* Flash Uploader for images
* Search Engine Friendly URLs
* In program help guide
* ... AND MORE
