The identity of the CMS-formerly-known-as-Mambo is finally revealed. And as I shouted right at ya, it’s Joomla!
After getting an influx of suggestions from the members of the very active forum of Open Source Matters, the Core Team of the CMS-formerly-known-as-Mambo released the new name to the public on Thursday September 1st, 18:00GMT (or rather, 5 minutes after this article was posted. As Elpie would say, it’s like waiting for Santa Claus.).
To those of you who are not in the know, Open Source Matters is the lifeboat of the sinking ship called Mambo. Well at least it became a sinking ship when the iceberg called Miro decided to hit it.
Click here to read the official press release
More flashbacks:
May 2001, Miro International Pty Ltd, the company whose claim to fame is being included in the default copyright notice in all Mambo installations, placed Mambo SiteServer in Sourceforge under the GPL license, with the intention of gathering source contributions to improve it, until they can release it as a commercial product.
Early 2002, Robert Castley discovered Mambo 3.0.7 in Sourceforge. He contacted Miro to express his interest in continuing to develop the open source version. Robert Castley became the first Project Director of Mambo. The name was then changed from Mambo SiteServer to Mambo Open Source.
April 2003, Robert resigned as Project Director.
May 2003, Miro withdrew the Mambo code from Sourceforge in order to "change the license to one that is more reflective of our intentions."
2003, Castley accepted Miro’s offer to resume his role as Project Director.
August 2003, Miro released Mambo CMS, a commercial version of Mambo Open Source. Miro claims that Mambo CMS does not contain any source added to Mambo after it was made open source.
2003 is also the year when the user base of Mambo started to rapidly escalate.
Castley resigned once again as Project Director.
November 2004, Andrew Eddie became new Project Director.
In the year 2005, the Mambo community notices Miro’s attempts to take a more active role in Mambo.
February 2005, Peter Lamont of Miro reveals plans for 3rd Party Developer certification.
Also early on in 2005, Mambo CMS was renamed to Jango, while Mambo Open Source was renamed to Mambo.
August 9, 2005, Mambo defeated the likes of Mozilla Firefox by grabbing the Best Open Source Solution award at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco.
August 10, 2005, Peter Lamont (aka seal_ho), President of Miro, announced the formation of the Mambo Foundation. He also announced his chairmanship of the said foundation, and that he had taken the liberty of handpicking the members of the board. Speculations arose on whether the Core Team was actually consulted in the formation of this foundation.
August 12, 2005 is the speculated date that the Open Source Matters forum was setup, based on the registered date of the Core Team as forum members.
August 16, 2005, the domain name opensourcematters.org was registered, according to whois data.
August 17 or 18, Andrew Eddie (aka MasterChief) issued a public statement that the Core Team will continue to develop and improve a version of the Mambo project, and effectively splits from Miro.
And Mambo-Miro is history. Or at least, we hope. Cheers to Joomla!
Chette will appreciate any corrections on the timeline :)
JOOMLA! CUTE!!! :grin
hhmmmm wala lang… nangungulit lang
Hello Chette,
Wow ang ganda naman ng Blog mo! it this run with Joomla? Can you please help me how I can delete the copyright on the footer of the freetemplate that I downloaded after modifying it. By the way is it allowed:-)?
Many thanks!
Anne
Hi Chette,
There are a few corrections needed.
Firstly, Joomla! is not a “CMS-formerly-known-as-Mambo”. It is a CMS in it’s own right and was never known as anything except Joomla. The fact that it used Mambo code does not make it formerly known as Mambo ;)
Mambo became an open source CMS under GNU/GPL in April 2001.
The company that started it was not Miro International Pty Ltd. That company did not exist at that time.
In late 2004, the then developers approached Miro International Pty Ltd and asked them to take a more active role in Mambo. This was announced by Andrew Eddie and Brian Teeman in January 2005 when they were excited about the new partnership with Miro.
Peter Lamont was not “aka seal_ho” seal_ho was the username of a completely different person. Peter Lamont was plamont.
The more complete history of the Mambo open source CMS project (which is alive and well, btw) is at [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mambo_(CMS)[/url]
The home of Mambo is at [url]http://www.mambo-foundation.org/[/url] and forums [url]http://forum.mambo-foundation.org/[/url]
The Mambo project has no association with the former Mambo site which was sponsored by Peter Lamont. The project is completely community-governed. That was the way it was set up to be but, of course, the Joomla developers didn’t stick around to find out ;)