06 May 2010

What's in a name - Why is it called Joomla?

Written by Brian Teeman
what's in a name

 We all hopefully know that joomla is a misspelling of a swahili word meaning "all together" but do you know how we chose that name or what the cms formerly known as mambo could have been called.

At the recent Joomla!Day in the Netherlands I gave my recollections of the turbulent and traumatic process involved.

Sadly I was doing most of this by memory as I no longer have any of my own records from that time, but Arno, Jean-Marie and Johan helped to fill in some of the gaps.

I'll be making this presentation again at J&Beyond later this month and maybe by then I may have filled in a few more gaps.

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About Brian Teeman

  • As a co-founder of Joomla! and OpenSourceMatters Inc I've never been known to be lacking an opinion or being too afraid to express it.

    Despite what some people might think I'm a shy and modest man who doesnt like to blow his own trumpet or boast about achievements.

    But it seems that no blog exists without an "About" page so rather than talk about what an amazingly great guy I am and list all the things I've achieved (and failed at) in life from my Cycling Proficiency Test in 1976 to winning an award for the "UK Individual Contribution to Open / Source" in 2005 here are some links.

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