The Joomla! spirit continues to grow in Africa this year, as Joomla!Day Nigeria comes near. On December 12, 2009, the great people in the Nigerian Joomla! community will be celebrating their Joomla! pride with their third annual Joomla!Day Nigeria in Lagos. Registration is free, but limited to 100 people, so register today!

Recently, Open Source Matters received an unsolicited proposal for the management of http://demo.joomla.org. After consideration and consultation with the Community Oversight Committee, the OSM board the Community Oversight Committee determined that, in the interest of fairness, others should also be invited to submit proposals.

Open Source Matters is requesting proposals for the management of the Joomla! demo site (http://demo.joomla.org). The existing Joomla!® demo site has been highly successful, with an average of 25,000 registrations monthly. OSM reasonably expects the number of registrations to increase with more prominent displays of the links to the site on the joomla.org family of websites. The joomla.org sites now receive approximately 5 million visits per month.

This is an open and competitive process. Responses to this RFP (“proposals”) received after December 9, 2009 will not be considered.

The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.15 [Wojmamni ama mamni]. It has been three months since Joomla 1.5.14 was released on July 30, 2009.
The Development Working Group’s goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community. We hope that these will be great news for all Joomla community.

VirtueMart is a free eCommerce Joomla extension that is written in PHP language. We have mentioned earlier about some really original project that was aimed to implement Magento shopping cart with Joomla CMS. Well today we want to tell you about the other side of this problem or frankly speaking about simpler and more reliable solution.

This Joomla extension has great list of advantages and we think that all these factors will help you a lot in the process of choosing shopping cart for your Joomla – powered wbesite. Of course the best thing is that VirtueMart is totally free . Other good points are superb Product Catalogue – You can easily add, edit, delete items you wish to sell. Promotions and News Items – it allows to show all latest products and special offers in a great variety of ways. Superb online payment – ‘VirtueMart’ is capable of live credit card processing with safe SSL encryption (128-bit) and supports a large amount of Payment Providers including PayPal and Redunicre.

B2B and B2C in one eCommerce shop – If you want to do business with other resellers as well as end consumers, we’ll setup your online shop to do just that! You can even have individual access areas for different client groups. VirtueMart works as well for 10,000 products as it does for 10, without additional performance or service issues.

And this is just a top of the list – take care and stay with us)