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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. 

Thanks

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

This server has 2 GB of RAM and dual AMD Athlon 64 Opteron chips.
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.

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. Not to far away.

Like waiting for a blind date again.

exrace wrote:Like waiting for a blind date again.

I can see it already... Comming down the road now...

Man I hope she is cute! 

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

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!

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.

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

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

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