Joomla! evolved as the result of the Joomla! development team branching from Mambo on August 17, 2005 At that point in time, the Mambo name was trademarked by Miro International Pty Ltd, who established a non-profit foundation with the stated purpose to fund the project and protect it from lawsuits. The Joomla! development team stated that quite a lot of the provisions of the foundation structure contradicted earlier agreements made by the chosen Mambo Steering Committee, key stake-holders opinion was neglected and, which is more, new foundation included provisions that violated core open source ideals.
The Joomla team of developers created a website called OpenSourceMatters to distribute information to users, developers, internet designers and the online community in general. The project leader Andrew Eddie, also called "MasterChief" authored an open letter to the community which got shown up on the announcements spot of the public discussion board at mamboserver.com.
A little more than a thousand folks had joined the opensourcematters.org internet site within a day, most encouraged and supported the idea, and the web site received the slashdot effect subsequently. Miro Boss Peter Lamont presented a public reaction to the development team in an document referred to as "The Mambo Open Source Controversy - 20 Questions With Miro". This event led to controversy within the free software community about the definition of "open source". Forums at many other open source projects were active with postings for and against both sides.
In about two weeks after Eddie's announcement, teams had been re-organized, and the community grew even larger. Eben Moglen and the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) assisted the Joomla CMS core team beginning in August 2005, as indicated by Moglen's blog entry from that date and a related OSM announcement. The SFLC continue to offer legal guidance to the Joomla! project.
On August 18, 2005, Andrew Eddie encouraged the community to suggest names for the project. The core team said that the final decision for the project name would be made based on community input. The core team subsequently decided on a name that was not on the list of suggested names provided by the community. On September 1, 2005 the new name, "Joomla!", was publicized. It's the English transliteration of the Arabic word jumla which means "all together" or "as a whole", as well as "sentence" (as in, phrase).
On September 6, 2005, the development team called for logo submissions from the community, invited the community to vote on the logo preferred, and announced the community's decision on September 22, 2005. Following the logo selection, brand guidelines, a brand manual, and a set of logo resources had been then published on October 2, 2005 for the community's use.
Joomla! (Joomla 1..) was released on September 16, 2005. It was a re-branded release of Mambo 4.5.2.3 which, itself, was combined with other bug and moderate-level security fixes.
Joomla! won the Packt Publishing Open Source Content Management System Award in both 2006 and 2007.
On October 27, 2008, PACKT Publishing announced Johan Janssens the "Most Valued Person" (MVP) for his work as one of the lead developers of the 1.5 Joomla Framework and Architecture. In 2009 Louis Landry received the "Most Valued Person" award for his role as Joomla architect and development coordinator.
Joomla! version 1.5 was released on January 22, 2008.
At the end of October 2009 a second alpha version of 1.6 was made available for testing .
By October, 2009, the 2009 Open Source CMS Market Share Report reached the conclusion that Joomla is the web's most popular open source content management system. That conclusion was based on an extensive analysis of rate of adoption patterns and brand strength and was backed by a survey of users.
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