Matt introduces himself and states he is a Joomlaholic. The document then discusses various Joomla and Drupal distributions including Molajo, a collaborative Joomla distribution focused on community engagement. It outlines the teams behind Molajo and their goals of contributing back to Joomla and expanding collaboration. Features planned for the first Molajo release on Joomla 1.6 are also summarized.

2. Hi. I am Mat t .
I am a J oomlaholic.

3. W hat is a dist ribut ion?
• Collection of software bundled into an
easy-to-use package.
• There are hundreds of distributions of Linux,
evidence of the strength of their community.
http://distrowatch.com
http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html

4. Linux Dist ro T imeline
http://distrowatch.com
http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html

5. Dist ribut ions
SIGN O F O P E N SO UR CE CMS
MAT UR AT IO N

6. Dist ribut ions
• Broaden appeal to vertical markets
• Rapid deployment == easier adoption
• Create innovation and inspire development
• Incubators

7. Drupal
• Drupal has many distributions
that help that community offer
innovative solutions quickly.
http://drupaldistrowatch.com/drupal/distributions
http://groups.drupal.org/distribution-profiles

8. Drupal
• Pressflow
• Acquia
• Open Atrium
• Open Publish

9. J oomla! Dist ribut ions
in t he wild
• Template companies
• Language-specific Distributions
• Non-profit Soapbox
• Most site builders

10. Nooku Ser ver
• Nooku Server, a multi-site
distribution of Joomla! 1.5
http://blog.nooku.org/2010/12/nooku-server-joomla-on-steroids

11. Molajo
“FR O M J O O ML A ”

12. Molajo
• The Molajo logo symbolizes Collaboration
and Unity. It represents two crocodiles that
share a single stomach.
• Based on an ancient West African symbol
that is still used today as a reminder that
we are all one, despite cultural differences.
• It teaches that these differences must be
embraced, not battled.

13. Molajo
• Collaborative, community driven distribution
of Joomla! 1.6
• Focus on engaging the Joomla! developer
and site builder community
• Contributes back to core project - all code
available for inclusion
• Compatible licenses – GPL

14. W ho is behind Molajo and jZenGarden?
• All Together, As A Whole Initiatives
• Specialized teams and elders council
http://AllTogetherAsAWhole.org

15. ATA AW Admins
• Amy Stephen, lead
• Hils Cheyne
• Nicholas Dionysopoulos
• Robert Vining

16. E lders Council
• W ilco J ansen • O le B ang O t tosen
Former OSM board member, Former Core team member,
Development Coordinator of member of OSM Community
Joomla! 1.5 Oversight Committee (COC)
• J ohan J anssens • B rian Teeman
Co-founder of Joomla!, lead Co-founder of OSM and Joomla!
developer and architect of
Joomla! 1.5, founder of Nooku
• A rno Zijlst ra
Co-founder of Joomla!

17. A growing number of cont ributors
building a collaborat ive,
communit y-driven environment .

18. Coordinat ion Team
• Hils Cheyne, lead • Manoel Silva
• Bo Astrup • Cristina Solana
• David Deutsch • Matt Thomas
• Babs Gösgens • Seth Warburton
• Jen Kramer

19. jZenGarden
• Cristina Solana, lead
• Ercan Özkaya
• Stian Didriksen
• Michael Babker

20. Development Team
• Matt Thomas, • Nicholas • Hannes
lead Dionysopoulos Papenberg
• Michael Babker • Stian Didriksen • Chris Rault
• Marco Barbosa • Babs Gösgens • Gobezu Sewu
• Klas Berlič • Ercan Özkaya • Cristina Solana
• Jeff Channell • Amy Stephen

21. Usabilit y Team
• Manoel Silva, lead • Hils Cheyne
• Bo Astrup • Seth Warburton
• Marco Barbosa • Arno Zijlstra
• David Deutsch

22. Translat ions Team
• Ole Bang Ottosen, lead
• Manoel Silva
• Parth Lawate
• Svein Wisnaes

23. Maintainer Teams
• Seth Warburton, lead
• Each developer
• Support staff

24. J oomla! 1.6 and what else?
FIR ST MO L A J O DIST R IB UT IO N

26. Installer
Chris Rault
• Proposed Joomla! 1.7 installer from
JUX group
• Integrated language support

28. Minima
Marco Barbosa
• Administrator Template
• Completely different administrative
experience

30. Molajo Tools
Nicholas Dionysopoulos
• Molajo version of Admin Tools Pro

32. R esponses – social plugin suite f or all content
Amy Stephen
• Voting, comments, social network icons,
subscriptions/notifications, hit counts,
tags …
• Utilizes new unified content events in 1.6

34. Const ruct Template Framework
Matt Thomas
• Designer/developer oriented
template framework.

36. J B etolo
Gobezu Sewu
• Front and back-end CSS/JS file
merging, minimization and
compression utility with CDN support
and control over CSS/JS ordering.

38. Tweet Display B ack
Michael Babker
• Comprehensive Twitter display
module

40. Access Cont rol
• Simplified – View treated like other
actions (ex Edit or Delete) so the
same groups can be used
• Proper override of core functionality
with system plugins that fire
onAfterInitiatialize that load a library
and layout overrides

42. A nd much more …
• Many other tools that help site builders
implement a Joomla! web site

43. Molajo Web site
• Babs Gösgens, lead
• Cristina Solana
• Matt Thomas
http://molajo.org

44. jZenGarden
• Cristina Solana, lead
• Stian Didriksen
• Ercan Özkaya
• Michael Babker
http://jzengarden.org

45. jZenGarden:
Learning f rom Wordpress
• Free GPL Templates
• Install from within the Administrator
Control Panel
• Compatible with Molajo, Nooku Server
and Joomla! 1.5/1.6

46. T he Fut ure …

47. Fut ure
• ATAAW Site rebuilt with Molajo
• Strengthen and expand collaboration
with other Joomla! developers
• Continue contributing back to the
Joomla! Project
• You decide!
http://tinyurl.com/MolajoSong

48. collaborate@molajo.org