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Over the New Year we promoted our commitment to third party developers (3PDs), where we hinted at creating a cool hangout for all 3PDs to learn, exchange, mentor and explore their creative ideas. Well, today, as promised, we're delivering our Developer Network Portal.

The Joomla!™ Developer Network Portal, is, we believe, a first in the Open Source world. "This idea has been driven by both core development members and third party developers," said Joomla! project leader Andrew Eddie. "It represents another milestone in the maturity of Joomla! and there is no doubt from the feedback we're receiving it's a benchmark worth having."

We are pleased to formally introduce Louis Landry, David Gal, Mateusz (Mat) Krzeszowiec, Richard (Ric) Allinson and Sam Moffatt to the Core Development Team. The work they have contributed to Joomla!™ over the past few months has created some amazing momentum within the project.

The project lead developer, Johan Janssens, said "fresh ideas and integration of new technologies into the core has created a great deal of opportunity and stability for the future of Joomla!."

"I'd like to personally congratulate all of the guys for their hard work," Johan said. "Their contribution, encouragement and spirit of teamwork has taken us to heights with the upcoming Joomla! 1.1 that could not have happened so quickly without their combined intellectual muscle."

The first LRU Joomla! Camp was a resounding success with over 40 students plus teachers in attendance. The course ran for 2 days and all the students got the full knowledge of web development from the staffs such as Web development on the real hosting, Joomla usage, Component, module and template installation.

This camp is to promote cms open source to the schools in northeast part of Thailand that want to join the project such as Sriboonrueng School from Nongbualamphoo province, Chulapornratchavittayalai School, Mueng Leoy School, Vocational School, CheangKhan School and other schools for more than 50 students.

Those adventurous guys in Thailand, Joomlacorner.com , are at it again wih a 2 day Joomla! Boot Camp for 36 students from 12 Schools. This is taking place on 21-22 Jan 2006 in association with Loei University.

Swedish magazine MikroDatorn in its January edition say that Joomla! is the "Best Web Publishing System".

"An easy way to administer a website, both content and design, is surely something everyone wants to do and this is the content managing system Joomla's strong point. Changing the deign of a website is lightningly rapid with different templates and information is dead easy to insert."

Joomla! 1.0.7 [ Sunburst ] is now available as of Sunday 15th January 2006 21:00 UTC for download here. 1.0.7 is essentially 1.0.6 repackaged to fix one major bug in 1.0.6 - therefore it should still be considered a Security Release.  It contains nine (9) `Low Level` Security Fixes, and seventy (70) plus minor/non-critical bug fixes.

We recommend that you upgrade to this version.  If you are running 1.0.6 you MUST upgrade to 1.0.7

1.0.7 is available as a Full Package, which contains all Joomla! files and a Patch Package which contains only the files that have been changed by the Security & Bug Fix work conducted.

At their 16th monthly meeting on January 13th, the Joomla! UserGroup Berlin (JUG Berlin) in Germany decided to organise some seminars in 2006 for Joomla!-users.

The Linux Format Awards 2006 are underway, but who should we be voting for?

The first stage of the awards is to get a shortlist of nominations. Please visit and nominate Joomla! for

Best Free Software Project

Best Internet Software 

Baker's Guide to Christian Distance Education, the leading online resource for accredited online degree programs offered by Christian colleges and seminaries, recently moved to Joomla.