Happy new year to the Joomla! Community. 2007 has been extraordinary, and 2008 is full of promise of even more. In six months Joomla! 1.5 went from Mapya (new) to Karibu (near by). Joomla! 1.0 continued its mature, steady shine with release 13, SunGlow. How did it happen?

People

Starting with Australia in January and ending in December with New Zealand , and around the world in between, Joomla! Days brought together the world wide Joomla! Community. As of April there were over 100,000 members of the Joomla! forums and in September the forums went to over a million posts.

Hard work

In 2007 those people wrote thousands of lines of code , opened 1031 bug reports (and closed all but 117 of them) , created hundreds of pages of documentation, asked and answered tens of thousands of questions, organized events around the world, and translated hundreds of text strings into a huge number of languages.

Open Source

After long and sometimes painful discussion, Joomla! reaffirmed its commitment to Open Source and GNU GPL .The power of open source and the GPL brings together all those people, to work hard and create all the pieces that make up Joomla!.

Creativity

Whether the way the Joomla! developers make the magic happen, the amazing work of high school students in the GHOP contest and college students in the Google Summer of Code , the huge number of resources that is the Joomla! Extensions Directory , or the scope of projects on Joomlacode the creativity of the Joomla! Community blossomed.

Fun

Most of all, it has been a year of fun, whether being together in person for Pizza, Bugs and Fun or a Joomla! Day, making websites we love, talking (even about the GPL) in the forums, solving problems, writing beautiful code, or taking a 1.5 RC out for a spin.

And for 2008?

Let's make it the same, but even more so. More people from more places, more creative, open source work, and even more fun.