Joomla! is a popular open source content management system, a free (released under the GNU General Public License), award winning, open source content management system written on PHP server side scripting & MySQL relational database platform for publishing content on the world wide web and intranets.
Joomla! includes features web pages management, caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, pdf version, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization.
The name is a taken from Swahili word “jumla” meaning “all together” or “as a whole”. It was chosen to reflect the commitment of the development team and community to the project.
Joomla! is the result of break up of Miro Corporation of Australia, the trademark holder of the Mambo name at that time, and all of the then core developers in 2005, who fork & extend the Mambo project into Joomla![1].
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[1] The Miro Corporation formed a non-profit foundation with the stated purpose to fund the project and protect it from lawsuits. The development team claimed that many of the provisions of the foundation structure went against previous agreements made by the elected Mambo Steering Committee, lacked the necessary consultation with key stake holders, and included provisions that violated core Open Source values.
The core development team created a web site called OpenSourceMatters to distribute information to users, developers, web designers and the community in general. The project team leader, at the time, Andrew Eddie, also known as “MasterChief,” wrote an Open Letter to the Community, which appeared on the announcements section of the public forum at mamboserver.com. By the next day, 1000 people had joined the opensourcematters.org forum web site, most posting words of encouragement and support for the actions of the Development Team. The web site received a slashdotting and news articles regarding the event appeared at newsforge.com, eweek.com, and ZDnet.com.