This document provides an overview of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and the content management system Joomla. It discusses what FOSS is, examples of well-known FOSS projects, common FOSS licenses, and statistics on FOSS usage. It then introduces Joomla, describing its core features, extensions, installation process, and technical requirements. Examples of organizations using Joomla are also given.

1. FOSS & Joomla! Presenter: Nguyễn Việt Khoa F P T Aptech [email_address]

3. Well-known FOSS Projects

4. Why use FOSS?

5. Usage statistics

7. Core features

8. Extensions

9. Install and Development

11. What's FOSS?

14. Open (source code) for study and modification

15. Free redistribution of copies of the original /modified software

16. Does not discriminate against persons or groups

17. What's FOSS? Photo source: http://foss.amrita.ac.in

18. Brief Background of FOSS Photo source: http://www.slideshare.net

20. 1991 – Linus Torvalds distributed a Unix-like kernel and encouraged everyone to help improve it.

21. 1993 – Debian and Slackware as implementations of GNU/Linux were born.

22. 1994 – Apache, the now popular web server system, was born.

23. 1995 – Red Hat was born.

24. 1996 – KDE as desktop environment was born.

25. 1997 – GNOME desktop manager was born.

28. We'll concentrate on GPL, LGPL, and BSD

29. licences

31. Grants most freedoms for users

32. Most demanding in terms of guaranteeing those freedoms

33. Not very enterprise-friendly

34. Guarantees project-viability nevertheless

36. Designed mainly to be a licence for libraries

37. Allows non-free applications to link against the LGPL-licences software

39. BSD network stack modified and closed by Microsoft in NT systems due to the relaxed restrictions

40. Can be regarded as more enterprise-friendly

41. Not FSF-approved but OSI-approved

43. Apache Web server

44. OpenJDK

45. BSD operating systems (not Free but Open

46. Source)

47. Eclipse

48. PHP

49. Mozilla

50. Open Office

53. The right of code modification, improvement and redistribution.

54. No black box.

55. Have an alternative.

56. Low cost software (TCO).

57. Free marketing and support for your project.

58. Quick improvement.

59. Large base of developers and users.

60. Decreased number of open defects. (We should report bugs)

62. A good idea is to integrate it within our educational curricula .

67. http://mshiltonj.com/software_wars/current/

69. Core features

70. Extensions

71. Install and Development

72. Working Joomla! site, hosted free

74. Joomla! is written in the PHP programming language.

75. It is freely distributed.

77. Add new pages to your site using a point-and-click interface.

78. Add images and other media through Web-based uploads.

79. Control site elements like navigation menus and page layout .

81. Runs on PHP, MySQL , Apache

82. Web based login and administration

83. “ Easy” to use once you understand a few key concepts (i.e. menu and content structures, extensions, and modules)

85. Language Manager

86. Banner Management

87. Contact Management

88. Polls

89. Search

91. Menu Manager

92. Template Management

93. System Features

94. Web Services

95. Powerful Extensibility

96. User Management

97. User Management

99. Unlimited Depth Organizational Model - Gives site administrators and content creators user-defined category levels that allow for the creation of a category tree with as many or as few levels.

100. One-Click Extension Updates - Allows users to keep sites secure and controlled by simplifying the process of updating extensions.

101. Semantic XHTML Layouts - Provides a better baseline for content presentation.

103. Easy to extend

104. Multi-lingual

105. Easy to administer

107. New template features

108. Build to scale

109. Rapid developmen t

110. Who use Joomla!? www.joomla.org

111. Who use Joomla!? www.journalpress.com

112. Who use Joomla!? www.quizilla.com

114. Rest of Web: 1,389,321

115. Total Sites: 1,407,337

116. Joomla is used by 10.7% of CMS

117. 60+ supported languages

118. Serving 7306 extensions to the community

119. 147 Registered Joomla! User Groups Source: http://trends.builtwith.com

121. Categories (think Drawers in Filing Cabinet)

124. One Menu normally contains multiple Menu Items.

125. Each Menu Item loads a pre-defined type of page determined by the Menu Item Type. You can create Menu items that link to the category, the article, the link, v.v.

127. Modules : data already exists and you just want a new way to present it on your site.

128. Plug-ins : data, content, or custom functions replace information in articles or functions extend core features.

129. Templates : define the look, feel, and navigation capabilities of your site

130. Languages : define additional languages for your site

133. Creating a new MySQL database.

134. Proceeding through Joomla!'s Web-based installation wizard.

136. MySQL: 4.1.x + (Minimum 3.23)

138. WAMP (Windows)

139. XAMPP (Multi-platform)

140. Demo

141. Q&A

143. http://www.ubuntu.com

144. http://sourceforge.net/

145. http://distrowatch.com

146. http://saigonlug.org

148. http://www.joomlaviet.org

149. http://www.siteground.com