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Governments are adopting Joomla and Open Source

Written by Brad Baker

Recently, Vu Hoang Viet a friend in Vietnam who was involved with the Vietnam JoomlaDay I attended last year, shared with me the following news article. He's translated it for English speakers below:

According to ICTNews, a newspaper of Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) in Viet Nam, Joomla has been recognized recently as an open source product which has high priority in purchasing and using in all goverment agencies.

Beside Joomla, there are other 7 open source products added to the recommended list this time: 
MIC announced a list of recommended open source product in 2007 that already has OpenOffice, Thunderbird, Firefox and Unikey( Vietnamese typing program).

Liferay (version >= 4.0)
Drupal (version >= 6.10)
Alfresco (version >= 3.0)
Postfix (version >= 2.5)
SendMail (version >= 8.13)
MySQL (version >= 5.1), PostgreSQL (version >= 8.3)
Ubuntu

I found it interesting, and felt it worthy to share.

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Guess Who's Been Working on Version 1.6?

Written by Mark Dexter

If you have the impression that more people are helping out with version 1.6, then you are correct. I just did a quick look through the CHANGELOG file for the past month and I found 22 names of contributors. Here they are:

Amy Stephen, Andrea Tarr, Andrew Eddie, Angie Radtke, Arlen Walker, Christophe Demko, Christopher Garvis, Dejan Acman, Elin Waring, Hannes Papenberg, James Kennard, Jean-Marie Simonet, Jeff Channell, Jeff Fendley, Jonnathan S. Lima, Louis Landry, Mark Dexter, Nabyl Sadki, Omar Ramos, Robert Deutz, Ron Severdia, and Sam Moffatt.

My apologies if I missed someone. We have been trying to lower the barriers and encourage more people to join in the fun, and it seems to be working. If you would like to help out, there is plenty to do. Please join us on the Joomla CMS Development list to find out where you can best help out. Thanks!

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Evaluation Results

Written by Elin Waring

As readers of this blog, the development mailing lists and the work group forums know, in recent weeks we've been collecting feed back on having some paid development. We asked people to reflect on the impact on them personally and collected both survey type information and open ended responses. Thank you so much to the 70 people who responded for taking the time to share your thoughts and for the really thoughtful and heartfelt responses.

The form closed a little while ago, and we know people are curious, so we wanted to share the results right away. The qualitative results are here.

I'll just share some simple descriptive statistics below. Of course it will be extremely interesting to see how different subgroups differ, but these results are extremely interesting.  Later there will be more posts that summarize overall findings and patterns.

Read more: Evaluation Results

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Evaluating Paid Development

Written by Elin Waring

As you know, this past fall OSM started to pay Louis and Andrew for a day or two of their time per week working on Joomla! Development. This was done as an experiment, and now is the time at which we will begin evaluation of the results. The most important question is: what is the impact of this on our community of contributors, which is to say the people who are contributing to the Joomla! project.  We are also interested in the thoughts of the wider world of engaged users and Joomla! business people who may not contribute directly, but do have a stake in the continued success of the Joomla! Project.  We invite everyone to participate in this process by filling out this form.   We'll collect responses until 11:55pm UTC on January 31 2010.

We want to emphasize that this form focuses on the actual impact on people and firms, not on philosophical discussions or speculation about the impact on other people.

Of course a form like this is not in any way a vote or a popularity contest, nor is it scientific. It is simply one of a number of ways of collecting information from people with a variety of experiences and backgrounds. We'll be sharing the results of this and other analyses in February.

Thanks for your help with this.

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Thank you for the Community input toward new OSM board members

Written by Alex Kempkens

Shortly before christmas 2009 Ole wrote a blog asking the community for your input related the new OSM board members which the CoC needs to elect in February 2010. With the call "Community input needed - choosing new OSM board members" we started something new. Non of us in the CoC know what we will get as response or input. With more than 100 votes and 19 comments it is one of those blogs that got quite some attention. Some of the regional communities even posted a translation of the blog on their sites.

What is really positive is that in the 20 days from December, 22nd to January 12th we got 56 nominations. There are quite a number of old fellows and friends on this list but there are also some new names. Some people that nominated are from regional communities and normally not involved in our centralized website. I personally think this experiment was successful and we got a really positive feedback. Thank you all that have participated in the nomination, thank's to all the candidates showing interest and many thank's to everybody who helped sharing this effort with your regional communities.

Now you will ask what is next? The next step is a simple chat within the CoC. We will discuss the various nominations and might do a follow up with some of the candidates. We are interested to know those we suggest if we do not know them yet. Of course we will discuss our suggestions with the other teams of the project and get their opinion as well. In the end the CoC will elect the new board members for OSM. We plan the election before February, 15th in order to give OSM the new board members before their next meeting. So all these steps will be done in the next few days and weeks. And of course we will keep you posted about the decisions made.

For the moment I like to thank again the whole community of Joomla for this great combined effort and thank you for your understanding, that we now stick our heads together and might be a bit silent for the next few days. You gave us quite some homework to be done ;-).

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