How did you get involved in Joomla!? Back in 2002, I was looking for a database driven Open Source application to build a web site for a local charity, but everything I found was like phpnuke and designed to have comments on every article. After struggling for a while, and almost giving up, I saw an announcement on freshmeat.net for a beta release of something called Mambo. The name Mambo meant nothing to me but I recognised the name of the person making the announcement, Robert Castley, as a customer of the ISP that I was operating. So I took a quick look at his personal site on our servers, saw something I liked, picked up the telephone and spoke to Robert and that, as they say, is history. I am involved in Joomla! because… …Joomla!, and true Free and Open Source Software, are a unique experience and opportunity in today's world. It provides the opportunity for people of all abilities to work together to share skills and experiences to produce something better that we can all freely benefit from. Henri de Saint-Simon advocated a society “based upon cooperation and technological progress, which would be capable of eliminating poverty” and I consider “poverty” as not just a lack of money but a lack of opportunity. Complete the sentence “Joomla! rocks the world because… …it is the only true community driven Free and Open Source web site building software. It provides those with limited funds or technical knowledge the opportunity to present themselves to the wider world on an equal footing.”

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