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Desktop Content Manager - JDAP1_v0.2 released

venom.unleashed@gmail.com (Rahul Verma) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:13:18 +0000

Hi everyone,

I am pleased to bring to you the second alpha version of JoomlaDesktopApp1 or JDAP1, which is based on the first approach(web browser approach-- refer to specs page) . I have included some new features in it and have also tried to remove the shortcomings of the previous release.

Taxonomy Extension - beta release

garthee@gmail.com (Garthee Ganneshapillai) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:10:18 +0000

I am happy to announce the beta release of Taoxnomy Extension for Joomla! 1.6 here.

One Month into Multi-site

ngavini@gmail.com (Naveen Gavini) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:09:11 +0000

It's been over a month since Google Summer of Code 2009 kicked off and I wanted to give the community a status update on the Multi-site project. If you aren't familiar with the project you can see the project details here.

Andrew Eddie to Give Live Video Presentation of Joomla 1.6

ryan.ozimek@opensourcematters.org (Ryan Ozimek) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:50:12 +0000

If you've been reading the Tweets about the Joomla! 1.6 development work in the past few weeks (hint: search for #Joomla16 on Twitter for more real-time information), you've undoubtedly seen the Joomla development team is working hard to push forward on the newest Joomla release. To help give more insight into what's being developed, Andrew Eddie will be presenting some of the key features of the Joomla 1.6 release at the upcoming Joomla! User Group (JUG) Brisbane Australia.

GSoC 2009: Survey component updates

gergo.erdosi@gmail.com (Gergő Erdősi) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:43:49 +0000

It was a long time ago when I posted updates on the status of my survey extension. Unfortunately June was a busy month for me, I had many exams and I was also working on Joomla! 1.6. But finally I have time to work on the survey component and to make up for the work.

Current status

Currently the administration interface of the component basically works, there are some elements which are missing on edit pages, but it's easy to add elements to existing and working forms. Mainly I was working on the relations of the different parts and it's mostly ready.

Main screen

Let's see a short introduction, how the back-end of my extension works.

From Joomline Survey

GSOC 2009: Joomla! LDAP Integration Updates

dandgelb@gmail.com (Lalitanand Dandge) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:14:06 +0000

The LDAP User Component and Plugin is ready for the testing.

Admin need not provide what kind of backend LDAP implementation(e.g. AD or OpenLDAP) the joomla is using.

I tested it for Microsoft AD 2003 and OpenLDAP. And seems work fine for the configuration.

Following are the snapshots of my test configurations.

Tabs Come to the Accessible Administrator Template

atarr@tarrconsulting.com (Andrea Tarr) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:26:51 +0000

My project creating an Accessible Administrator Template is coming along. I've restructured part of it. The different submenus lacked clarity so I switched to a tabbed menu and moved them above the toolbar icons. This makes it more obvious what section you are in. As you look at the graphic you will also note that I have pulled out most of the styling, going back to almost a wireframe. Once I get the functionality in place, I will look at adding more styling back in as well as updating the icons/images as appropriate.

GSOC JConnect Status Update 3

arunoda@mit2007.com (Arunoda Susiripala) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:03:20 +0000

It's ready

JConnect - The Integration Engine for Joomla is now pretty much ready. (OK we say it BETA). Before we going into much details lets talk about it's features. It can do following with it's External Applications.. (Currently only Elgg)

Dual-way communication..
whatever the changes you made to a user(Create,Update,Delete) it'll affect to Both Joomla and ExApp. no mater where you made it (inside Joomla or Elgg)
Bulk User Synchronization
you can synchronize users in many numbers between Joomla and ExApp.
Dual Login (Single Sign On)
you can login into one site and go for a another site and do your work without login again. (a site may be Joomla or a ExApp)
Activity Module
you can see the activities in the ExApp inside Joomla in a Module..
Sync User Management
you can manage user sync users inside Joomla
Admin Panel
contains a easy to use admin Panel to control all of these
Advanced Contols
helps you to control the communication between Joomla and ExApps

Workflow extension [ BETA ]

mostafa.mohmmed@gmail.com (Mostafa Ibrahim) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:55:47 +0000

I'll start by explaining how the extension works , I won't dive into any technical details

This extension allows website administrator to define a workflow "i.e a process" of content publishing, Let's consider a scenario where the administrator runs a magazine with 3 content categories, Each one of these categories is managed by a team.

JED to be 100% GPL at Midnight

toni.marie@extensions.joomla.org (Toni Marie) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:36:01 +0000

We at the Joomla Extensions Directory are celebrating the next phase of our commitment to the GPL values that Joomla was founded on. As part of an overall movement toward embracing and encouraging use of the GPL in all aspects of the project, the JED announced in December 2008 that only GNU GPL extensions would be listed as of July 1. We have led up to this policy change slowly, and we hope with as much information as possible.

Tonight at midnight is the time and day that only GPL extensions will be listed in the JED. We're incredibly encouraged by the show of support and cooperation of our third party developers.

Our developers were given the time of midnight tonight as the target for relicensing their extensions with the GPL. While extensions have been coming to the GPL steadily since our announcement was made in December, a flood of changes are coming in just before that cutoff. We're thrilled at the overwhelming response to our call to bring extensions into GPL compliance. Developers have been working well with editors to clarify wording on their websites to assure users of the JED that the freedoms of the GPL will be upheld.

We can't begin to thank all of the amazing developers who have embraced the open source values along with us. Many previously proprietary and partially closed-source developers of commercial extensions have joined with us in the JED and released their Joomla extensions with the GPL license. We are confident in keeping the vast majority of popular commercial extensions in the JED due to the developers' willingness to work with our team.

We are committed to working with each of our developers to ensure that their projects are treated with respect and protected from exploitation. We're further committed to making sure the users of the JED have the most complete, compliant and vulnerability-free list of extensions for Joomla.

Thank you for making that possible.