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Mambo Adds MamboXChange And Announces New Community Governance |
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Written by konlungkao
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Oct 11, 2007 at 10:56 AM |
 Award winning Open Source CMS now in a better state than ever with
new leadership and adds MamboXchange to it’s stable of developer resources.
One year after becoming an autonomous, community-controlled entity for the first
time in its seven year development timeline, Mambo has reached a turning point in
the history of one of the world’s most popular Open Source content management
systems.
“The recent board elections of the Mambo Foundation, Inc. reflects the community’s
vote of confidence in our abilities to manage an extremely large and successful open
source project without having to depend on corporate participation” said Lynne Pope,
newly elected president of the Mambo Foundation, Inc.
“The Mambo project is growing strongly and as a result, demand has increased for
improved developer services. We will be working overtime to ensure that access to
core structures are made accessible and to keep communication free-flowing and
transparent” add Ms. Pope.
In August 2005, the Mambo Foundation, Inc was established as a non-profit governing
body for the Mambo CMS by former Miro International CEO, Peter Lamont. “This caused
some controversy amongst the community of users due to a broad spread of
misinformation”, Lynne Pope stated. “The truth of the matter is that the Foundation
was set up, all IP was transferred to it, and Peter Lamont held the reins as
Chairman of the Foundation just long enough for the community to get ready for
self-governance”.
Heading into its second year as a community-controlled organisation and following
the election of a new Board of Directors, the second phase of endowment from the
former sponsor of Mambo has been announced.
Peter Lamont, who has been running the mamboserver.com websites and the MamboXchange
developer forge through his company, Mambo Communities Pty Ltd, has assigned the
MamboXchange domain and websites to the Mambo Foundation.
“The Xchange rightly belongs with the Foundation who have demonstrated their ability
and commitment to responsibly manage and grow the Mambo project and unite a large
and growing community of dedicated Mambo users” said Peter Lamont. “I have no doubt
that Lynne and the new board will take Mambo from strength to strength under
accountable and transparent leadership and governance.”
The new Mambo forge can be found at http://mambo-code.org/
About Mambo
Mambo is a free, award-winning business-oriented open source CMS written in the PHP
programming language, the world's most popular programming language for web-based
applications. The flexibility of the code and inbuilt ability to extend Mambo make
it one of the most powerful content management systems available today. Mambo is the
perfect solution for developers and novice users alike who demand a simple yet
elegant way to deploy professional websites rapidly. Mambo is licensed under the
GNU/GPL Version 2. For more information visit: http://source.mambo-foundation.org/ |
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Last Updated ( Oct 11, 2007 at 12:08 PM )
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