A few months ago I was lucky enough to head over to Thailand with Alex for their Open Source Festival and Joomla!Day. I say lucky because Thailand has some of the most passionate open source people I have met, and Thailand has a fair bit going on in the Joomla! space as well…its just a shame I don’t speak Thai!
First of all let me introduce Akarawuth, or ninekrit / joomlacorner, who leads a band of developers and translators that make Joomla! in Thailand very possible. Akarawuth has done a huge amount of work in Thailand, and even has a version of Joomla! 1.0.x in UTF-8 to make things easier, ports and translates many popular software releases, including Joomla! 1.5, and then on top of all of this organises Joomla!Day’s. The team that supports him is amazing as well and its great to see such a strong development team supporting Joomla! in Thailand. Read more ...
Joomla! 1.5 RC3 [codename: Takriban] is now available for download. We've had the 'Red Barchetta' release candidate, then Endelo RC (meaning development, progress ... improvement). Takriban means 'almost, nearly'. Well folks we're almost, nearly there. Stable is getting very close.
It's roughly 10 weeks since RC1 and five weeks since RC2 and thanks to valuable community feedback, there have been improvements and bug fixes. The uptake of Joomla! 1.5 has been incredible, with many people diving in to the new API and finding ways to make it sing. The current Joomla! 1.5 template competition has further fuelled interest, as has the number of 1.5 native extensions finding their way onto the Joomla! Extensions Directory . Joomla! 1.5 is really gaining momentum.