Archive for January, 2009
How do I know our bootcamps are doing great? Other people are publishing reports before we get a chance to do so: See Joomlacommunity.eu and Web-effect.nl. Our co-organizers Jira.nl took some pictures, and so did the attendees. You could even follow the event live on Twitter! The presentations are available from Jira and on Slideshare.
With all the attention our SEO Bootcamp is getting, there’s not much left for me to do. These are the main points to remember:
… and yes, as usual the Bootcamp ended in a restaurant with Johan Janssens telling stories about the early Mambo days… ;-)
I don’t usually repost stuff on this blog (we have the “What we’ve been reading“-feed for that in the sidebar). But this is so well written, that I feel everyone who ever used GPL software should read it: Best JED response ever (hat tip to ninjatheme for the find).
Speaking as a developer of GPL software myself: when faced with (however few) users who demand your full undivided attention because they feel you owe it to them, it can be very tempting to relicense your software under a more restrictive proprietary license.
Dear user: If you care about Free Software (as in Freedom), allow GPL developers to make a living. If we can’t build viable GPL-based business models, open source software will never amount to more than mere hobby projects.
From the Free Software Foundation website:
Free software is software that gives you the user the freedom to share, study and modify it. We call this free software because the user is free.
Last October we announced that DOCman was taking a quick nap, due to the team’s focus on Nooku. With the release of Nooku 0.6 at the end of 2008 we have time again to refocus on DOCman and give it the attention it deserves.
Today we are happy to announce that nap time is over for DOCman. As promised in my previous blog post time for a more in-depth overview of what’s cooking behind the scenes.
Last weeks we have been working hard to iron out the remaining bugs and issues for DOCman 1.4.0. Work has been completed a few days ago and we are now in progress of doing final internal testing. A stable release is expected in the coming weeks.
DOCman 1.4.x will be the last release to support Joomla 1.0, any upcoming release of DOCman will only support Joomla 1.5 and up. You can rest assured though, we are dedicated to maintaining the DOCman 1.4.x series for some time to come. An end-of-life date hasn’t been set yet and will largely depend on the uptake of DOCman 1.5.
Work has also started on DOCman 1.5 beta. The 1.5 version will only support Joomla 1.5 and run native. Yes, at last! Other features include a code cleanup and moving the languages file from PHP defines – the old Joomla! 1.0 standard – to INI files. Other plans include moving a number of plugins into the core, for example the AutoPopulate and AutoThumb plugins.
Today we also start to gather feedback for DOCman 2.0. The 2.0 version will be a complete rebuild of core from the ground up, we want to make DOCman 2.0 a next generation web 2.0 document management system. Social features and web 2.0 technologies like AJAX, REST, … are high on our whishlist …
While planing the roadmap for 2.0 we would love to hear from you. What would you like to see in DOCman 2.0, how should a next generation document management system work ? Let us know !
Go to: http://ideas.joomlatools.eu/pages/docman to send in your ideas or to vote on ideas that have been submitted already. Your voice counts!
Finally, we are also working to expand our professional services with a professional subscription club for our products. Details are still being worked on. Stay tuned for more information.
To our community members, clients, visitors and friends : We wish all of you a happy and fruitful 2009!
2008 was a great year for us. Our thanks goes out to everyone in our community who has contributed and is helping to make our products better.
In 2009 Joomlatools will be taking a next step in it’s growth. Over the last weeks we have been plotting and planning many exciting new things. If you kept an eye on our sites you already noticed a few changes … there is much more to come.
Most importantly, 2009 will be the year where we return to where it all started, yes that’s right, it’s DOCman time. DOCman native for Joomla! 1.5 ? You bet ya! Excited? So are we! More news on our DOCman plans is coming in a next blog post, stay tuned.
Finally, we said goodbye to Laurens Vandeput. Laurens, who was primarily working on SITEman left us at the end of 2008 to pursue a career in Java development. We wish him all the best with his new job. Rest assured though work on SITEman is continuing, a first status update is planned for beginning of February.
Oh and before I forget, we recently moved house from joomlatools.org to joomlatools.eu. From now on .eu will be our new home. Make sure to bookmark us !
May ‘the code’ be with you in 2009 !
