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Scheduled downtime of mailing list and git servers (again)

Kevin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:25:02 +0000

Scheduled downtime from Wednesday, September 8, 22:30 to Thursday, September 9, 07:30 CET.
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Joomla! Community Workgroup Report – August 2010

Kevin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:25:02 +0000

The Community Workgroup Teams were busy as ever during the month of August. Below are the reports rounded up from the Community Workgroup Google Group.

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PLT and Paid Contract Work

Kevin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:25:05 +0000

As many of you know, in late 2009 it was decided by OSM and the project leadership to contract with Andrew Eddie and Louis Landry and to pay them for working on the Joomla! project. This was a very big step and was only undertaken after much discussion and careful consideration. There was strong agreement in the OSM and project leadership for this decision. Formal and informal polling of community members found a substantial majority in favor of the concept, with a minority opposed to it. Some of those opposed had strong feelings against it.

From the start, the plan was for Andrew to focus on coding for version 1.6 and for Louis to help support Andrew but also to work on longer term and infrastructure projects. This general plan is still in place today, although some of the specifics have changed over time as version 1.6 has moved from alpha to beta.

The Production Leadership Team (PLT) was tasked with the role of setting the priorities for this work and providing supervision and oversight. Initially, this was done informally. Recently, we have instituted a more formal process whereby the PLT has started issuing monthly reports to OSM and the community on the work completed and goals going forward.

What does this mean to you? Just this. The PLT makes the decisions about what gets worked on and the priorities going forward. So, for example, if you have ideas or concerns about what either of these individuals is working on (or not working on), you should express them to the PLT, not to Andrew or Louis.

If you don’t like the whole idea of paying them for doing this work, then you are absolutely entitled to that opinion. But again, your difference of opinion is with the project leadership and the OSM leadership, not with Andrew or Louis.

I only wish the PLT could take the credit for the fantastic work that these guys have been doing during this time. But that credit goes to them alone.

In a community as large and diverse as ours, there are always going to be disagreements. This issue is particularly sensitive and one on which people can have very strong feelings. I hope that people on both sides of this issue can work together and keep their disagreements respectful.

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Packt Publishing Launches the Open Source Awards

Kevin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:25:02 +0000

Packt Publishing has recently announced the Open Source Awards for 2010. TYPO3 is nominated for the Open Source CMS category
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Scheduled downtime of mailing list and git servers

Kevin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:25:02 +0000

Scheduled downtime on Friday, September 3, 20:00 to 24:00 CET.
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Hans J. Martin lost his life

Kevin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:25:02 +0000

Dear community, Monday last week Hans J. Martin, Managing Director of e-netconsulting KG, Hamburg died at the age of 34 years by a tragical accident. He was co-founder of the TYPO3camp idea and…
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SugarCRM Named Top Open Source CRM

Kevin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:20:02 +0000

Forecasting Clouds

Leading CRM focused blog Forecasting Clouds has named SugarCRM the leading open source CRM application on the market thanks to its flexible, intuitive and interoperable nature.

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TYPO3 4.5alpha1 released

Kevin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:25:18 +0000

Today, the TYPO3 community released the first alpha version of TYPO3 4.5. This marks the start of our journey to the first TYPO3 release ever to have long term support (LTS).
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Sugar 6 Gets Social

Kevin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:20:02 +0000

Customer Inter@ction Solutions

Sugar 6 allows organizations to quickly add social media management tools and data to their core Sugar deployment. The idea is to eliminate the need for sales, marketing and support agents to visit multiple sites and use multiple tools to engage customers via social media; instead leveraging all of these capabilities right inside their CRM system.

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FLOW3 1.0.0 alpha 11 released

Kevin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:25:01 +0000

The FLOW3 core team is delighted to announce the release of the eleventh alpha release of FLOW3.
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