Introducing JoomlaConnect™
Since No News is Never Good News
Written by Amy Stephen
The Joomla! Project is *mighty* proud to introduce JoomlaConnect™ -- a brand-new feed aggregator intended to help share Joomla! news from all around the world! Some of you noticed last month, the old News link in the top menu bar was overlaid with the launch of the Community site. Since No News is Never Good News, we trust this new service will be well worth the wait.
Those who have not submitted Joomla! News in the past might be surprised to learn how outdated that environment was. In order to share a news item, people had to actually visit the Joomla.org site and submit text-only news using a form. Following the submission, the news items sat, waiting until community volunteers made time to manually sift through hundreds of submissions to separate spam from community news.
Maybe our old approach to News wasn't quite as antiquated as using smoke signals, but clearly this system did not scale well with the explosive growth of the Joomla! community. We simply could not keep up. And, as a technology group, we certainly can do better!
With JoomlaConnect, we can hear about Joomla! from many, many sources, instantaneously, as soon as articles are saved. This will be a great improvement for sharing information and ideas from community members all over the world, regardless of the language used. Check out the Getting Connected to JoomlaConnect information if you are interested in having your feed considered for this new service.
Now, we all know that cool things happen when someone works hard to make it happen. In this case, we need to offer a big community "Thank you!" to Louis Landry, Joomla! Core Team member and Communications Team Lead. Louis has been working hard to create and share JoomlaConnect with us. In fact, for many months now, Louis has been the quiet and active force behind many improvements in communications at Joomla!. He has spearheaded the Joomla.org site clean up and upgrade operation and has helped reorganize and facilitate improved communication for the project, as a whole. Louis - this is simply another in a long list of contributions you have provided the Joomla! community and we appreciate your dedication and generosity, very much. Thank you!
So, out with the old news! And in with the turbocharged, RSS aggregator-powered JoomlaConnect new News! Now, let's get those blogs firing!
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