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Who is paying the bill for Joomla?

Post by chanh » Thu Sep 15, 2005 8:16 pm

I am wondering Miro was paying the expense for the servers, the forge, the trip to conferences, etc before the split.

Now Joomla is on its own but who is taking Miro's place.  Who is paying for the DNS name, the hosting fee, etc. 

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Re: Who is paying the bill for Joomla?

Post by Tom » Thu Sep 15, 2005 9:33 pm

Current sponsors of Joomla can be seen on this page: http://www.joomla.org/content/view/40/41/

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It is running CentOS release 4.1, MySQL 4.1.13, Apache 1.3.34, and PHP 4.4.1 with IonCube's phpAccelerator as an extra boost for PHP.

The forge, well, I know who is hosting that, but I am not at liberty to say at this time.  NDAs and all that.
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Re: Who is paying the bill for Joomla?

Post by brad » Thu Sep 15, 2005 9:41 pm

For the record...

No one is taking Miro's place. Joomla is an open source project in control of it's own destiny, unlike the situation we we were in with Mambo.

The release of the forge is the next biggest announcement. :D Not to far away.
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Re: Who is paying the bill for Joomla?

Post by exrace » Thu Sep 15, 2005 9:44 pm

Like waiting for a blind date again. :)
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Post by brad » Thu Sep 15, 2005 9:46 pm

exrace wrote:Like waiting for a blind date again. :)


I can see it already... :) Comming down the road now...
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Re: Who is paying the bill for Joomla?

Post by exrace » Thu Sep 15, 2005 9:48 pm

Man I hope she is cute!  :-*
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Re: Who is paying the bill for Joomla?

Post by brian » Thu Sep 15, 2005 10:08 pm

It should also be noted that there was a very regular income being recieved from all the adverts on the mambo websites. I've no idea how much but i'm sure it was more than enough to cover the expenses

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Re: Who is paying the bill for Joomla?

Post by lester » Thu Sep 15, 2005 10:43 pm

If it's not 'market sensitive', it would be helpful if there was some guidance on what a sensible donation would be (one for business users and another for personal and non-profit users) for those that wanted to voluntarily support OSM and Joomla!

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Re: Who is paying the bill for Joomla?

Post by brad » Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:06 pm

lester wrote:If it's not 'market sensitive', it would be helpful if there was some guidance on what a sensible donation would be (one for business users and another for personal and non-profit users) for those that wanted to voluntarily support OSM and Joomla!


This information will be available once the infrastructure is setup so that Joomla can accept donations.
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Re: Who is paying the bill for Joomla?

Post by absalom » Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:17 pm

brian wrote:It should also be noted that there was a very regular income being recieved from all the adverts on the mambo websites. I've no idea how much but i'm sure it was more than enough to cover the expenses


Actually, from what Peter Lamont has stated publically, they were behind with just Adsense:

It doesn't quite cover the costs but it is improving. It certainly makes a difference when you're providing something free for a project,

http://www.tafe.swin.edu.au/finreview.html

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Re: Who is paying the bill for Joomla?

Post by brian » Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:28 pm

I wasnt referring to the adsense revenue as we were never party to that information. I was however referring to the revenue from the hosting adverts and all the other advertsing.

But I'm not going to get drawn into a long argument bout this

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Re: Who is paying the bill for Joomla?

Post by absalom » Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:39 pm

brian wrote:I wasnt referring to the adsense revenue as we were never party to that information. I was however referring to the revenue from the hosting adverts and all the other advertsing.

But I'm not going to get drawn into a long argument bout this


OK. Let it go through the keeper and call it crossed wires in communication  8) :D ;D


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