Discuss: Joomla's 100k Ain't Bad!

[Tonie]

Discuss Joomla's 100k Ain't Bad! here.

[ChiefGoFor]

Congrats everyone!!! This is truly a remarkable achievement!

[infograf768]

200 000 is not so far... 

[Slixter]

What an accomplishment, cogratulations to the whole Joomla! community!!

[AmyStephen]

Congratulations to the entire Joomla! community and special SPECIAL thanks to the Forum Administrators and Moderators and all who volunteer to help answer community questions. This is a great milestone!

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Also, a very, very SPECIAL Welcome to Joomla! nateshiyer! (corrected after ChiefGoFor's announcement)

We have anticipated your arrival with excitement! We are very pleased to have you join us! To help you get started on your Joomla! journey, there are several gifts community members have offered for your use.

Hagen Graf and PackT Publishing offer you two fabulous books to help you learn Joomla!. Building Websites with Joomla! v1.0 and Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5 Beta 1 (Thank you Hagen Graf and PackT!)!

Andy Miller of RocketTheme (and a member of the Joomla! core team) offers you a free RocketTheme Template Club Membership! (Thank you Andy Miller!) and RocketTheme!).

Steve Burge of Alledia offers you a copy of his NEW book entitled Joomla! SEO Book - Search Engine Optimization for Joomla! (Thank you Steve Burge and Alledia).

You will also receive a a cool Joomla! t-shirt to wear while you are building your *fabulous* Joomla! websites!

Joomla! stands for "All together" and "As a whole." With now over 100,000 Joomla! forum members and countless other Joomla! users from all over the world, the name Joomla! is certainly appropriate. Welcome to Joomla! and thanks for joining us!

Please email me at [email protected] so that we can make arrangements to get these cool, new gifts to you! 
Amy

[quiquedcode]

Awesome news !!

[brian]

Great news. I wonder how any registered users there are if we also add all the members on the non-english support forums. Especialy for those languages like french whihc are less represented here at forum.joomla.org.

Perhaps then we will be close to beiag "the largest Open Source focused forum on the planet" as we have a long way to go to catch up with our friends at linuxquestions.org

[pvh123]

This is so fantastic and makes me proud to be part of it.
Just to think that only last year july time I was pushed (gently) towards Joomla by my daughter-in-law  .

Pieter

[RobInk]

Congrats to ALL 100.000+ users that make up this community! It continues to be a fun place to be at...

-- Robin

[Leftfield]

200 000 is not so far... 

Truly not 

[MuffinDCC]

WOW 100K - nows thats a fair few members.

Why imagine 200K whens theres 1 million 

Congratulations to jammie07 - I would say the Rocket Theme membership is the best gift 

[Grisbald]

100k! It is nothing short of amazing. Just think about it. Joomla! version 1.0 was announced August 16, 2005. That was over a year and a half ago. And even then, it was essentially a rebranding of an already-released version of Mambo. So for the better part of two years, a community has grown around a fundamentally static web CMS.

100k! I suspect that it is more of an expression of hope following the fall of Mambo - and perhaps an echo of 'who was here then but have long since left'. How many have moved on to other solutions after giving up the wait for 1.1? Oh, that's 1.5 now. Perhaps we should call it 2.0. How many of the 100k have posted in the last 3 months? How do dormant accounts die? Yes, it is amazing indeed.

[dhuelsmann]

Just a note, the link on the poster in the full article is not working.

[brad]

Just a note, the link on the poster in the full article is not working.

Pete is fixing that now

[LocALiceR]

Fantastic! The Christmas present was Joomla! 1.0.12 from the Core Team, the Easter present comes from the community

[Last BoyScout]

Wow, this is one of the reasons I choose for Joomla; its massive, extensive (need I go on?) support fora!

Thank you all, and lets head to number one!

[Jdam]

Wow great news  Thanks to the Core & the community 

-Jd

[MrRoyce]

To all of us that make up the Joomla! family...around the world, across cultures, between all of humanity..we are truly..

All Together!

[jonflgiles]

Hey All,

I'll add mine to the above - congrats to all and thank you to those that really work hard - and often get grief rather than thanks!!

@Grisbald - I'm sorry dude I don't know what your beef is with Joomla (I can guess) and I'm not trying to stir but I will say this. I don't post that often - take a look at my profile - but I certainly read and learn much from the guys who spend time and effort on all this. Yes there may be dormant accounts and I'm sure there are a fair few but perhaps we should try not to see the statistic as a statistic more an expression of interest in what is so far an amazing testament to what OSS can and could do.

Take it easy all and keep up the hard work!

Jon.

[hostboy]

ummmm...  I don't think that Jammie07 ever activated the account...  I tried to find the user in the user list, and it goes right from jammer to jammin...

I think our plan has been thwarted!  We will have to find again you the 100 000 user was.

ianmac

I still wonder who is the lucky one to get the goody bag but anyways congrats to all of us as we all share the big milestone collectively. 

[2xPe]

"Joomla! has the largest Open Source CMS focused forum on the planet" realy? http://drupal.org/node/106656 

[AmyStephen]

Congratulations to Drupal, too! Go open source! 

[Pomond]

As the announcement noted, one of the qualifying factors for choosing an open-source solution is the size and quality of the community that supports it.  I can't count the number of times where I haven't been able to find an answer to a problem in the official manuals, but Joomla!'s community forums have hooked me up.

Congrats to everyone on reaching this milestone.

And GO, DEVELOPERS, GO! on version 1.5 ... we're all anxiously awaiting this major update.

[Grisbald]

@Grisbald - I'm sorry dude I don't know what your beef is with Joomla ...

@jonflgiles - no need for you to be sorry Jon. I should be the one apologizing. The post was uncharacteristic of me. I've been involved with Mambo/Joomla! since before the Robert Castley era and the golden years of version 4.5. That release was a significant tipping point because it introduced powerful features and usability enhancements over previous versions. The Forum's 100k milestone is an expression of the popularity and interest in Joomla! predominately amongst the users. For many of us, it is also an expression of hope for the future of Joomla! The milestone got me reflecting on the history of the Joomla! project and the long lead time to another 'tipping-point' experience - for users.

The strength of the Joomla! community is also reflected in its tolerance for the odd outburst of frustration and angst, like mine. As a community-based FOSS project, Joomla! relies on the synergies between the developers and the users. To a certain extent, I think that this synergy has been denied by the developers' desire to release the perfect product. Smaller, more frequent releases would facilitate user involvement and arguably grow the community faster and in more constructive directions. As an experienced project manager in the IM/IT domain, I know how seductive scope creep can be. I also know how difficult software estimation is.

I blogged (grisbald.net) on the topic of community size as a metric of FOSS project success /health. I think this is a useful thing to think about. It is one thing to celebrate a milestone, and another to understand its meaning. But then I think about things like this, and understand that others may not. Can a FOSS community of 10k be as or even more successful? Why? How? Worth thinking about I think.

So, sorry for upsetting the celebration a bit. I wasn't as constructive as I probably should have been with my comment. Sarcasm is a pretty arrogant way to make a point or solicit positive feedback.

UPDATE: Drupal has announced its own 100k milestone too. Interesting. AmyStephen has been blogging about Drupal, WordPress and Joomla! on opensourcecommunity.org. Her latest is http://www.opensourcecommunity.org/2007 ... ource-cmss and shows Jooma! declining while Drupal and WordPress are strengthening using Alexa. Back in February, Amy posted Google Trends data on her own blog indicating the rise of Joomla! (partially the migration of Mambo users) in relation to Drupal and WordPress - see http://community.nebraska.edu/amyblog/i ... wordpress/. This is interesting data. Some might question the value of comparing FOSS projects in this way - it isn't a competition after all. Benchmarking is a useful method of assessing quality and progress and I think that this data raises some interesting speculation. Thanks Amy.

[hornos]

Hi,

Great news. I wonder how any registered users there are if we also add all the members on the non-english support forums. Especialy for those languages like french whihc are less represented here at forum.joomla.org.

As of 07/04/11 here's some numbers for the french speaking forum:

- 150 000 posts
- 13 200 registered users
- 35 new registered users daily since 07/01/01
- 350 posts daily since 07/01/01

[Last BoyScout]

And here are the results of the dutch jury...

...oeps, wrong show ....

Here are some totals of the Forum of DutchJoomla.org

- 8.827 Topics
- 48.043 Posts
- 12.441 Registered Members

So we named 3 fora now; yet several hundreds to go. 

[Chris]

daily since 07/01/01

Is that since 1 Jan 2007 or 7 Jan 2001 or 1 Jul 2001?

Could not be 2001, that would make Joomla 6 years old.

[infograf768]

daily since 07/01/01

Is that since 1 Jan 2007 or 7 Jan 2001 or 1 Jul 2001?

Could not be 2001, that would make Joomla 6 years old.

You answered yourself. It can't be 2001, so it is 2007. 
Hornos did use the English way of writing dates. 

[nateshiyer]

I am so glad, I was actually going to use Mambo for this website but my wife, Ms. Deepa always liked Joomla and then I was struggling with Mambo and then I saw the amount of extensions available for Joomla i said let me chuck Mambo and go for Joomla, It is really excellent the way this community is sustained with all the software being free and works wonderfully well...

You will all be surprised that this is also our first website using a Content Management Software and our clients thought we could not do it, we did... I am still struggling to learn using components.....

May we reach 1 million and our (Deepa and I) thanks...

- Impossible says "I'm possible"

[AmyStephen]

Welcome to Joomla!, NateShiyer!

Congratulations on being the 100,000th Joomla! Forum User. Your wife, Ms. Deepa, sounds very wise!  And, your first Joomla! website is Majestic, indeed!

Thanks for your email and we will be sending you information on how to get your gifts very soon!
Amy