Project Name Chosen- Discussion

[Woof]

10 minutes and I can try to reg a name even thoug I saw it here already. See Art, thats how adults behave.

[Damienov]

I see wikipedia has the name already in its database :-) But i wont tell you which name or which page

arghhhhh, no more ading to the suspense pls 

[SineMacula]

It has the best meaning that an open sorce project could have !
No need to google it, as there are no results (Well 3, but they are not connected)

I saw the name, and now it's the suspense of knowing what it means that's killing me!!!

[ArtFusion]

does anyone know the expression "shot themselves in the foot?" cuz that what this name is like. it will not have the momentum as mambo has in its very name
Miro is laughing so hard right now!!!

[ArtFusion]

actually adults use democracy and not a clique to choose new names for such important endeavours

[Damienov]

4 min to the announcement, 381 ppl online and I already burn my cigarets backwards

[WashURick]

I wish there were an age/IQ filter on here that filtered out SOME posts by SOME people.

[PhilTaylor-Prazgod]

actually adults use democracy and not a clique to choose new names for such important endeavours

Adults keep their word!

[rjs]

4 min to the announcement, 381 ppl online and I already burn my cigarets backwards

[Sebastiaan]

ArtFusion, I don't know what you're problem is, but complaining won't help. Get over it already, please!

[Slixter]

I bet some people thought google was a funny name and it would never take off. 

--Slixter

[SineMacula]

does anyone know the expression "shot themselves in the foot?" cuz that what this name is like. it will not have the momentum as mambo has in its very name
Miro is laughing so hard right now!!!

I didn't like the name Mambo when I first found it... but I grew to love the CMS anyway... and even the name grew on me.

I'm not too worried - this CMS will do just fine.

[MyJC]

uh - wow. was that me or did the whole OSM site just go *poof* at the zero hour?

so, what's the new name?

[PhilTaylor-Prazgod]

uh - wow. was that me or did the whole OSM site just go *poof* at the zero hour?

so, what's the new name?

Well the announcement is mirrored here:
https://www.phil-taylor.com/Joomla-comp ... %97-Joomla!/

[rjs]

Front page. The site and forums couldn't handle 400 plus concurrent connections.

[Matthew Schultz]

Joomla.
http://www.joomla.org/

What is Joomla?
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Joomla! is a Content Management System (CMS) created by the same award-winning team that brought the Mambo CMS to its current state of stardom.
What's in a name?

The name Joomla! is a phonetic spelling for the Swahili word "Jumla", which means "all together" or "as a whole". It was chosen as the entire teams behind Mambo were unanimous in their commitment to protecting the interests of the creators and community, which was the true cause for the success and acclaim earned by that project.

This name was chosen from thousands of recommendations by the community, and even went through an arduous review session by branding and marketing professionals who also felt that Joomla! was the best choice of the lot.

What sets Joomla! apart from the rest is our dedication to keeping things as simple as possible, while providing the most features possible. Finally, non-technical people can have complete control over their websites without paying exhorbitant amounts for closed, proprietary software.

Joomla! is more than just software, it is people. The community behind Joomla! includes developers, designers, systems administrators, translators, content writers, and most importantly the end users. We welcome you to our community, and look forward to the future with great excitement!

Got a little news story too.
http://www.primakoala.com/

[Damienov]

The baby is born!
with almost 3000 fathers and mothers 

[Woof]

ok so whats it mean?

EDIT: ok ok in all the excitement I missed the definition above.

[rjs]

Still having difficulty accessing the site, forums, or anything else here at opensourcematters.org.

Errors:

Notice: Undefined variable: sourcedir in /home/open/public_html/forum/index.php on line 47

Warning: main(/QueryString.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/open/public_html/forum/index.php on line 47

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[Sebastiaan]

Great name, a lot of fuss about nothing on artfusion's part.

In Holland we'd serve rusks with "mice" blue for boys, pink for girls


Congratulations!

[rjs]

I think the name is fine. Different for sure, but certainly fine. Good work.

[keliix06]

ok so whats it mean?

No entries in dictionary.com. Google shows it to be the name of a Persian prince possibly.

[manuman]

Hi all,

Well for those who are wondering, we peeked at around 1000 connections at around 6Mb/s. The server is a Dual Opteron so its not a lightweight.

Anyway, apologies for the problems... they just go to show the interest in what we have goin' on here.

For those asking we got Joomla from Jumla, the swahilli word for All Together.

Cheers
Shayne

[molok]

Congratulations  Joomla   

[rjs]

The sites are getting pounded. The new site only comes up 1 out of 10 times as well.

[mediamagnate]

So many visitors to see the new baby that you nearly cooked the servers!

Sorry for the downtime but this sort of traffic really is a vote of interest.

[anniewayz]

"The name Joomla! is a phonetic spelling for the Swahili word "Jumla", which means "all together" or "as a whole". "

from joomla.org

^_^

[ccondrup]

I like the meaning of the word, "as a whole" - but I would actually prefer just OSM or something like that. Might be because Joomla just sounds weird in my native language, Norwegian. Would prefer "Jumla", but allright, enough criticism. Just one thing: Is it supposed to be written with an exclamation mark at the end? Seems a bit complicated.

Well, congrats. One step further towards release 1

[rjs]

"For those asking we got Joomla from Jumla, the swahilli word for All Together."

Fantastic. You couldn't find deeper meaning.

[Tom]

Still having difficulty accessing the site, forums, or anything else here at opensourcematters.org.

Errors:

Notice: Undefined variable: sourcedir in /home/open/public_html/forum/index.php on line 47

Warning: main(/QueryString.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/open/public_html/forum/index.php on line 47

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required '/QueryString.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/open/public_html/forum/index.php on line 47

Yes, I know, the Settings.php file somehow got corrupted, I was able to extract a copy of the file from a backup performed last night and restored it to the same location.  Probably caused by a forum admin doing a setting change and it never completed the file writing process.