The August Issue - 18th Birthday Edition

The JCM Team is proud to present you the August Issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine.

With the release of this issue we celebrate Joomla's 18th birthday!

It has been a long and exciting journey, started on August 17, 2005, for which we would like to take the opportunity to thank the founding members and all the volunteers that throughout the years have provided their time, experience, skills and advice to make Joomla what is now: one of the leading and award-winning Content Management Systems.

This month’s edition features:

18 websites by 18 Joomlers, put together by Anja de Crom 18 facts to celebrate Joomla's 18th birthday, by Daniel Dubois 18 ways to give back to Joomla, by Daniel Dubois A presentation of the upcoming Pizza, Bugs and Fun by Louise Hawkins An update on the J5 Design Challenge by Philip Walton An article on the Mindful movement to design better websites by Viviana Menzel An article on Tagged Items, as part of the Explore the Core series by Dan Atrill How Elisa Foltyn met Joomla, by Serge Billon How Joomla became his Ikigai by Serge Billon An article on the Cyber Resilience Act by Anja de Crom Explore the Joomla Update Framework with David Jardin Discover the AI Extensions that can help webmasters with Philip Walton Explore 50 tools for Web Agencies with Eoin Oliver A thank you letter to Tobias Zulauf, Joomla 3.10 Release Lead, by Benjamin Trenkle Get to know JUG Milano Centro with the interview made by Hans van der Meer. 

This release wouldn't have been possible without the work of the Community Magazine Team, all the authors and all the people who allowed us to interview them.

Thanks to all those who participated.

The Call for Authors for the Community Magazine is always open, we are eager to receive your articles.

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Contributed to this issue:

Luca Marzo (Co-Editor), Anja de Crom (Co-Editor), Sandra Decoux (Creative Director), Louise Hawkins (Creative Director and Author), Daniel Dubois (Author), Serge Billon (Author), Dan Atrill (Author), Hans van der Meer (Author), Philip Walton (Author), Viviana Menzel (Author), David Jardin (Author), Eoin Oliver (Author), Benjamin Trenkle (Author).

We want to thank also all the developers, leaders and volunteers who dedicated their time to answer our interviews.