Joomla!, Drupal and … You !
Presentation of the current state of Joomla!, what can
we learn and where can we work together
DrupalCONF, October 2005

About me
Johan Janssens
Joomla Core Member – Development team leader
http://www.joomla.org 1

Contents
‘All great things come in three’
1.Joomla
2.Drupal
3.Working together
http://www.joomla.org 2

Joomla!
Part 1
Joomla!
http://www.joomla.org 3

Joomla!
• What is Joomla!
• Why Joomla ?
• History
• How are we organised
• Roadmap
• Resources
http://www.joomla.org 4

What is Joomla! ?
Joomla! is a Content Management System (CMS) created by the
same award-winning team that brought the Mambo CMS to its
current state of stardom.
Joomla! is a reband of Mambo 4.5.2
http://www.joomla.org 5

Why Joomla! ?
The name
• phonetic spelling of the word ‘Jumla’.
• means ‘all together’
The community
• Joomla is more then just software, it is people
http://www.joomla.org 6

History
• 17 augst 2005 – open letter to the community
• 01 sept 2005 - new name announced
• 17 sept 2005 – opened new forge
• 22 sept 2005 – new logo announce
• 06 oct 2005 – Joomla wins ‘Best Linux / Open Source Project
http://www.joomla.org 7

How are we organised ?
People
• Core 25 members
• Workgroups 160 members
• Community 10k
Resources
• Forum 1000 visitors a day
• Forge 450 project / 4750 developers
http://www.joomla.org 8

How are we organised ?
http://www.joomla.org 1

Roadmap
Version 1.1 early november 2005
Version 1.2 end Q1 2006
Version 1.3 end Q2 2006
Version 2.0 end 2006
http://www.joomla.org 9

Roadmap
Version 1.1
• Backend translations
• RTL language support
• Move to UTF-8
• SSL and improved SEF
• Triggers for session and user management
Version 1.2
• Database abstraction
• Full ACL
• Caching
• Template engine (patTemplate)
• FTP installer
http://www.joomla.org 10

Roadmap
Version 1.3
• Usability and Accessibilty (WCAG 2.0)
• Content versioning
• Update handling
Version 2.0
CMS framework built with PHP 5
http://www.joomla.org 11

Resources
• www.joomla.org – the home site
• developer.joomla.org – the developer site
• help.joomla.org – the documentation site
• forum.joomla.org – the community forums
• demo.joomla.org – the demo site
http://www.joomla.org 12

Drupal
Part 2
Drupal
http://www.joomla.org 13

Drupal
?
http://www.joomla.org 14

Working together
Part 3
Working togther
http://www.joomla.org 15

Working together ?
• Cross system authentication
• Easy export/import of content
• Working together on libraries
• Exchanging knowledge
• ….
http://www.joomla.org 16

The end
Questions and Comments
“Stump the Geek”
http://www.joomla.org 17