A couple of months back I wrote about Mambo becoming independent of its corporate sponsor, in this post.. Back in April, I was led to believe that the project wanted the new site and was planning to move en masse to Mambo Guru. This was not the case at all, and it seems I was caught in the middle of some internal politics. I don't like being misled, and nor do I appreciate having my time wasted.
However, I am happy to give what time I can to the Mambo project. After all, volunteer open source projects rely on the "pay it back" from users and developers in order to continue. The Mambo project has become independent of it's former corporate sponsor and when I left Mambo in 2005, at the time of the Joomla! fork, I had given an undertaking to go back (if needed) should the project ever become an independent FOSS project, controlled by the community and not by corporate interests. That time has come. I have accepted an invitation to join the Mambo core development team and have offered to donate my Mambo Manual wiki to the Mambo Foundation, Inc.
Mambo will have its work cut out for it over the next few months, in making users aware of the new location of the project. The team has loads of great ideas for the code base and intends to implement new features that the community have wanted for a long time. I'm really excited to be able to contribute to moving Mambo forward and am looking forward to it regaining the ground it lost in the upheavals of the past year.
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