Troozers - Talking Joomla! - Mambo Developers Letter To The Community

Mambo Developers Letter To The Community

Wednesday, 17 August 2005

Article Index
Mambo Developers Letter To The Community
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Page 5

Page 1 of 5

Much has been said about the Mambo Open Source project and the establishment of the Mambo Foundation to benefit the future of Mambo.

We, the core development teams, unanimously believe:

An open source project is about people producing free and open software and contributing to something as a team for the benefit of others.

Open source projects reflect the spirit of collaboration and fun while garnering community feedback and providing good governance that allows for business to confidently invest in its development.

Open source projects are open to the participation of anybody who can contribute value and is willing to work with the community.

We, the development team, have serious concerns about the Mambo Foundation and its relationship to the community. We believe the future of Mambo should be controlled by the demands of its users and the abilities of its developers. The Mambo Foundation is designed to grant that control to Miro, a design that makes cooperation between the Foundation and the community impossible.

The Mambo Foundation was formed without regard to the concerns of the core development teams. We, the community, have no voice in its government or the future direction of Mambo. The Mambo Steering Committee made up of development team and Miro representatives authorized incorporation of the Foundation and should form the first Board. Miro CEO Peter Lamont has taken it upon himself to incorporate the Foundation and appoint the Board without consulting the two development team representatives, Andrew Eddie and Brian Teeman.

Although Mr. Lamont through the MSC promised to transfer the Mambo copyright to the Foundation, Miro now refuses to do so.

What we will do: We will continue to develop and improve a version of this award-winning software project currently released under the GNU General Public License. We wish Miro and the Mambo Foundation well and regret that we are not able to work with them.

We have retained the Software Freedom Law Center to advise us in this matter and will release more information about our short-term plan in the near future.

For more information please visit Open Source Matters

17 August 2005, The Mambo Development Team :

Andrew Eddie
Emir Sakic
Andy Miller
Rey Gigataras
Mitch Pirtle
Tim Broeker
Alex Kempkens
Arno Zijlstra
Jean-Marie Simonet
Levis Bisson
Andy Stewart
Peter Russell
Brad Baker
Brian Teeman
Michelle Bisson
Trijnie Wanders
Rey Gigataras
Shayne Bartlett
Nick Annies
Johan Janssens

Comments

keep it opensource!
by Guest on 2005-08-18 20:08:07

Hey Ray has si gned twice!
Anyway you have all my support (as a little mambo user)

G ood luck :)
by Guest on 2005-08-19 01:35:39

Thank you for all of your had work! My new job is not Mambo based as my previous contract work was, but I'm still workin g on open-source components and tutorials. The community has had a wonderful commitment to allowing anyone to contribute, regardless of t echnical skill. I hope this continues, wherever the project is taken.

weqewq
by Guest on 2009-05-25 22:56:41

cheap wow power leveling buy wow gold cheapest wow power leveling my wow gold replica replica rolex CHEAP wow power level BUY power leveling replica rolex replica CHEAPEST power leveling MY wow power level
cheap rs gold
good BUY wow gold
replica rolex
CHEAPEST wow gold
cheap lotro gold
buy wow gold
my wow gold
cheapest wow gold
CHEAP wow gold lili

aweqweq
by Guest on 2009-05-25 22:56:57

diezhilian
by Guest on 2009-05-25 22:57:56

sdsdfsfs
by Guest on 2009-05-25 22:59:38

by Guest on 2009-05-25 23:00:12

wow gold
by Guest on 2009-06-16 03:19:14

Why people compare Lotro and WoW?wow gold
hey there , wow goldi see alod of posts about WoW in this forum.wow goldany reason why? wow goldif you talk about WoW so much go back and bum it please dont create a thread about WoW on Lotro Genral dessction Fourm!wow gold
At this point it's played-out, wow goldtalked out, old news;wow gold no point in continuing to make comparison/contrast.wow goldI also dislike it because it makes me weary that a huge majority of LOTRO players are Ex-WoW players, or in some way associated with WoW; wow goldwhich isn't good for LOTRO's community. wow goldAnd that's the only reason I can think of why people REALLY draw parrallels.wow gold It certainly cannot be over graphics.

wow gold
by Guest on 2009-06-16 03:19:55

cry
by Guest on 2009-06-17 00:13:28

The superstarsLook, this is reallydofus kamas kamas dofus simple.LeBron James is ffxi gil final fantasy xi gilOscar Robertson in Karl buy ffxi gil maple story mesosMalone's body. He maplestory mesos ffxi giltook a team to the NBA Finals in 2007Final fantasy xi gil
cheap ffxi gil that had no business being there.gil ffxi ffxi cheap gil If he broke both his legs and never played another game, you'd still be hard pressed dofus kamas kamas dofusto keep him from the Hall of Fame.runescape gold runescape money He is the best player in the league, buy wow gold
cheap wow goldand despite what Kobe's supporters world of warcraft gold tales of pirates goldtell you, it's not that close.Chris Bosh is a great player, age of conan gold age conan goldone of the top five power forwards in the age of conan power leveling aoc goldgame, and he has many more all-star games in his future. But he, unlike LeBron, needs helpaoc power leveling aoc leveling to be great, and for his team to be great.mmporpg online games So any flaws in him are amplified when his team underperforms, just as the team's flaws are exposed when he's not on his game.Interestingly, diablo 2 cd keyboth players are free agents in 2010, and both have been rumoured to be plotting a move together to the New York. So come then, Torontodaoc gold daoc plat and Cleveland could end up in the same place. But until then, Cavaliers fans appear to be hoping the LeBron party doesn't stop. Toronto fans are just hoping Bosh doesn't leave before the party even starts.

cry
by Guest on 2009-06-17 00:13:44

[quote=cry]sA substandard display against Arsenal six wow power levelingweeks ago prompted a rethink from Ferguson, who swiftly turned to the next generation. Rafael da Silva appears wow powerlevelingthe preferred right-back now and, given Wes Brown's unassuming excellence while deputising for Nevillewow leveling last season, the 33-year-old appears to be consigned to the fringes. If the da Silva twins are the 21st century Nevilles,wow power leveling Rafael's greater attacking verve ages the original model still further.The footballing generation game can have awow powerleveling cruel ending: therewow leveling are parallels with Paul Parker's swift Warhammer golddescent from automaticwarhammer online gold pick to third choice.buy Warhammer gold Moreover, with Neville in the final yearFinal fantasy xi gil of his current contract, neither an unconvincing buy ffxi gilouting in the centre of defence against Blackburn in the Carling Cup nor Johngil ffxi O'Shea's ability to slot in at ffxi gilright-back bode well. For a man who has tried todofus kamas personify the United support kamas dofus- not least in his attitudesilkroad gold towards Liverpool - being discarded would be an undistinguished finish to a career at Old Trafford.For Scholes,silk road gold contracted until 2010, that day surely lies further in the future.[/quote]

Prev - Next >>

< Prev		Next >

[ Back ]