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A Look @ Community Builder 2.0

@ J and Beyond 2011

Planned Agenda
 About CB: Who and Where we are now
 Who we are: CB Team  Joomlapolis Community
 Where we are now: Numbers  Features
 Where we are going: Funding strategy  Development strategy

 CB 2.0: State of the art
 CB 2.0 research labs: CBSubs and our Incubator!
 CB 2.0 already implemented areas of research
 CB 2.0 new features
 What remains to be done until release
 What are your wishes ?

© Joomlapolis - 2011 2

My Profile …

Beat

 ‘beat’ on forums
 Lake Geneva, Switzerland
 MS EE/CS, PhD CS
 Internet security / web-apps
 “Make it as simple as
possible, but no less”


Before we begin
 We have 2 Community Builder related back-to-back sessions
 CB 2.0 and Future
 CB Solutions and Coding
 CB Team will be present during both sessions
 Beat (aka beat)
 Nick (aka nant)
 Kyle (aka krileon)
 Depending on interests, we might merge sessions and even
extend if interest exists to provide coding examples
 CB Team members are available for consultation during
conference – you can bump, or book appointment.


About CB
 What is CB?
 CB in 4 dimensions
 CB Features
 Funding strategy
 Development strategy


What is CB?
 Leading social networking solution that provides a clean,
robust, secure social networking framework for all versions of
Joomla.


CB in 4D


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CB in 4D: People
 People perspective


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CB in 4D: Teams
 Work-Groups
 CB Team
 3 dedicated
professionals full-time
(Beat, Nick, Kyle)
 A dozen volunteers
half-dozen contractors


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CB in 4D: Numbers
Facts and key points:

 Leading social networking solution for Joomla and Mambo
 Most popular component on JED, very widely used
 Stable (first beta release Aug. 2004 ~ Mambo era)
 Secure (only 2 vulnerabilities reported in its 6 year history – last one was 2 years ago)
 Fast: Tuned for performance (5000 simultaneous users on one server)
 Free and open-source GPL license


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CB in 4D: More numbers
 Joomlapolis confirmed users base:
390,000 (estimated to reach 400K in June)
 Forum posts:
159,000 (one of the largest native Joomla forum)
 Estimated number of CB installations (base: google search):
1,000,000 – 2,000,000
 Estimated number of public CB User profiles (google search):
60,000,000 – 100,000,000
 Number of CB plugins:
168 on JED
64 from CB Team


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CB in 4D: Technical
 Technical

Features

Plug-
ins
Architecture
Core
Functionality


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CB in 4D: Architecture


CB Core Features
 Extended registration form:  Field type supported:
 More fields, required, etc  Profile Image (c)
 Tooltip popups  Username, Password (c)
 First login redirection  Primary Email Address (c)
 Show/Hide icons  First, Middle, Last, Name (c)
 Ajax username and email checks  Connections (c)
 Extended membership info:  Forum stats (c)
 Member since (date)  Joomla parms (lang, zone, …)
 Last visit (date)  Hits (c)
 Last update (date)  Text
 Confirmed  Text area
 Approved, Blocked, Pending  Editor area (HTML)
 Online status (show/hide frontend)  Image
 Approval workflow (B&F)  Integer
 Email confirmation  Date (pop js calendar)
 Moderator approval  Check-box (Boolean)
 Tabs  Multi-select check-box
 Multi-position layout (81 positions!)  Radio
 7 display types  Single-select drop-down
 ACL support  Multi-select drop-down
 Fields in tabs:  Delimiter (HTML + subs)
 Registration form enabled  Web-address (text + URL)
 Required  Email
 Profile view  Password


CB Core Features (more)
 Name Style:  Main Profile Avatar/Image
 Single name field  Moderated (B&F)
 First and Last name field  Registration form enabled
 First, Middle, and Last name field  Resized, thumbnail, secure
 Login field type:  User Lists
 Username  Direct URL link
 Username of email  Up to 4 columns
 Email  Multiple fields per column
 Username, email or plugin  Include field titles in columns
authentication.  Groups to include
 Email Handling:  ACL support for viewing
 Display email only  Filtering :
 Display with mailto: link  Simple
 Link to form  Advanced
 No display  Dynamic
 Connections:  Sorting
 Mutual consent or not  Frontend searching:
 Public or Private  Simple exact match
 Cross connection or not  Simple any match
 Connection types  Advanced all possibilities
 Notifications (Email, PMS)  Pagination
 Connection Path  Hot link protection
 Degrees


CB Core Features (even more)
 Profile Templates:  CB Workflows module
 DIV or Table mode  Actions for users
 Default, Dark, WinClassic,  Actions for moderators
WebFX, OSX, Luna  CB Login module
 Membership Management  Vertical, horizontal
 CB User Manager  Compact mode
 Simple filter (name, email,  Pre/post text for login, logout
username)  Show Greeting
 Status filter (confirmed,  Show avatar
approved, pending, etc.)  Show registration link (text,
 Advanced filer (CB field based icon)
criteria)  Show Forgotten link (text,
 Mass Email (CB User Mng) icon)
 Personalized  Show pending actions
 HTML content  Show messages (PMS
integration)
 Configure chunks and delay
 Login, Logout redirection
 CB Online module  http/https support
 Links to user profiles  Integration with CB plugins


CB Core Features (still ticking …)
 Private Messaging  Forum Integration
Integration  CB Core plugin
 CB Core plugin  Kunena and others
 uddeIM and others  Show forum posts in
 Quick-message box profile tab
 CB Menu when visiting  Show forum stats in user
profile status tab area
 Connection notifications  Show thread subscriptions
 CB Login integration  Search, sort forum posts in
 Articles Integration forum tab
 Show articles in tab on  Show CB fields in forum
author’s profile sidebar
 Shows, hits, date, title  Advanced mode to
support CB substitutions
 Links to article


CB Core Features
Expandability
 Everything offered is built over the powerful and
flexible CB API
 Can be fully localized (messages, notifications,
frontend and backend)
 Features can be modified and added using CB plugins
(installed by CB Plugin Manager)
 Everything is cross Joomla compatible (1.6.x, 1.5.x,
1.0.x)
 Hundreds of CB Plugins to chose from
 Is distributed with detailed installation guide
 Supported by a 390K large community on Joomlapolis!
 Is GNU GPL v2 distributed

…. and …

IT’S FREE AS IN BEER!


Funding Strategy
 CB is free … but someone has to pay for it …
 Donations … yes, Thank You ...
 Doc subscriptions
 Services offerings: Consulting, Support, Services

 Subscribers / Paid Members (Advanced and Professional)
 CBSubs – Paid Subscriptions Membership Management
Solution sales
 Template sales (3 templates: MyCommunity, Coolness, Funlite)
 Hosting service


Membership plans

Advanced 12 m. Professional 12 m.
 Documentation (180+p)  All Advanced privileges
 Credits removal auth.  23 Incubator CB Add-ons
for all your CB sites forever use them on all your sites
 15 CB Add-ons forever
use them on all your sites forever  Maintenance releases and
 GroupJive plugins release candidate access
use them on all your sites forever  Professional Support forum for
 Maintenance releases fast 2 bday turnaround
 Advanced Support forum (for all your websites)
(for all your site questions)

50 € for 12 months 75 € for 12 months


Advanced CB add-ons
 Captcha
 Facebook connect
 Twitter connect
 Gallery + mod + doc
 ProfileBook + mod
 Privacy
 Ajax File field
 Ajax Text field
 Ajax Rating field
 AutoWelcome
 Latest viewers


Incubator Add-ons


Incubator: Projets
 CB Connect  CB Triggers
 CB Blogs  CB Redirect
 CB Invites  CB Fields
 CB VirtueMart  AWK Language Grabber
 CB AlphaUserPoints  PHP Memory Tester
 CB Emails  CB Profile Update Logger
 CB Queries  CB Code
 CB FlySpray  CB Articles
 CB Content bot  CB Query Field
 CB Template Changer  CB Google Translate
 CB Progress Field (NEW)  CB Forums (missing)
 CB Conditional (NEW)
More incubator projects constantly added!


Templates
 Ultra Fast, Light-Weight Joomla Templates!
 Include Joomla 1.5 and 1.6 versions and CB template!
 20-29 €/tpl


Hosting
 Fastest website performance
 Zero-click CB & Joomla! install
 Optimized for Joomla! & CB
 State of the art Top Security
 Fully Redundant clustered clouds setup
 Professional Support

❸ ❶
❷ ❹


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CBSubs™ membership subscription solution
 CBSubs™ is a “special” plugin created for “our need” and
commercialized to support FREE CB
 Turn your Joomla website into a subscriptions based service
 that protects any Joomla content element:
article, category, section, component, module, …
 based on “subscription plans”.
 Has built-in access control mechanism
 Clean, robust, no hacking solution
 CBSubs™ has its own API and can have its own “plug-ins”


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CBSubs: Architecture
Joomla

CBSubs™
Joomla Extensions
• Joomla 1.0.X • CB • Settings
• Joomla 1.5.X • DOCman • Currency CBSubs™
• Joomla 1.6.? • Remository • Gateways • Privileges
• Jawards • Plans
Plan A
• Jevents • Baskets
• VirtuMart • Payments
• GroupJive • Notifications CBSubs™
• Alphapoints • Subscriptions • Privileges
• Pap4 • Donations Plan B
• Idevaffiliate • Merchandise
• AcyMailing • Statistics
• SOBI • History log
• Mostrees CBSubs™
• JoomGallery
• Privileges
Plan C
• Kunena
• many more

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CBSubs 1.2
with
Smart Promotions!

Demo
follows


CBSubs Technology and Strategy
 CBSubs was something we needed and developed
 Serves as test-bed for new technology development
 CBSubs income helps keep CB free!
 CBSubs uses new XML-driven (formal-descriptions) technology
 Entire backend is implemented 99% with XML formal-descriptions
 Frontend invoicing address and VAT forms also
 Most of CBSubs is implemented with Layered MVC

This new technology IS already the basis for CB 2.0


Community Builder 2.0 : Features
Front-end:
 New Look, New design, New web 2.0 User-interface
 Integrates many add-ons and incubator concepts
 New rendering engine, fully MVC templatable & overridable
 New data and relations engine
 Possibility to give more control to members
 PHP 5.2+ / MySQL 5.0+ / Joomla 1.5/1.6+, Easy Upgrade

Admin area:
 Entire Administration Area entirely rewritten & XML driven
 Quick configuration, Efficiency, Even more flexibility


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GroupJive 2.3
 Join
PHOTOS
Edit

WALL
Remove
New VIDEOS
MENU/INF
O

Files
EVENTS


CB 2.0 XML Technology
 New XML-driven development technology
Internal research  Field tested  Advantages
 Example: following table requires zero lines of specific
PHP and Javascript implementation:

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Pro Plugin: CB Connect (available NOW)
 Login to your site withGoogle, Facebook or OpenSocial.


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CB Connect: Google Comments
 Add Google gadgets to your profiles!


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CB Connect: Facebook LiveStream
 Add Facebook Gadgets to your
profiles!


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CB Connect: Friends Connect Comment


What remains to be done until release

 Move the new engines from CBSubs into CB
 Refactor the incubator plugins and GroupJive core into CB
 More new CB templates (call for template designers)
 Test it, Package it & release it!

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What are your wishes ?
 Thank you for your attention 

 What are your wishes ?

 Your CB Team @ www.joomlapolis.com

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