The CB Team has just released CB Captcha plugin version 2.2.1 for its CB Documentation subscribers. This release makes it again much harder to misuse the forms protected by CB Captcha. Several technical measures have been added to protect against human-assisted forms-submissions.

Thank you once again for your support.

Update: Version 2.2.2 has been released!

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As the 300K celebration festivities are in progress, we have identified the Joomlapolitan that sparked this celebration. Let's welcome Dan our 300,000th member also known by his username thedan1984.

The CB Team has decided to throw some nice presents Dan's way. Dan will be receiving:

• One Year CB Documentation subscription - starting today
• One website license for our MyCommunity template
• One website license for our Coolness template
• A 500 user CBSubs license package
  

I am sure we would all like to learn more about Dan and his Joomla / Community Builder goals, so here we go!

Nick: Hi Dan and welcome to Joomlapolis! Can you please give us some information about yourself?

Dan: My name is Dan, I am a 25 year old freelance Web Developer living in Albany, New York. I graduated Purchase College in 2008 with a BA in New Media.  I've been developing websites since 1998, but on a more serious level since 2004. As of now, most my projects come from a local web marketing company which sells websites to local businesses and then sources the work to myself and a few other developers.

Nick: How did you hear about Joomla and Community Builder?

Dan: I learned about Joomla in 2008 when I begun researching how to create a mass content (100s of pages) website.  I didn't want to have to rely on just HTML, PHP, and MySQL to create it because I had a few people involved with the project who lacked the ability to code.  A Content Management System was the only way to bridge the gap of knowledge, I weighed out the options between Joomla and Wordpress, in the end Joomla was picked (for silly reasons, I found a template I liked.)  In the Summer of 2009 we wanted to add some community features to our website. We came across Community Builder on Joomla's Extensions Directory, but we passed it by because we felt we were not ready to have an active community that would require us to moderate forums, comments, and spam (adding user input can be great, but it also requires a lot of attention or you'll end up with 14590 posts about buying virtual gold or some cosmetic products).

Nick: What are you trying to accomplish with Joomla / Community Builder?

Dan: We're trying to add in a "universal" community system to our gaming website which allows for users to communicate with us and with each other, in hopes to generate more meaningful content on our website.  Our members will hopefully feel proud to share their knowledge and accomplishments with each other. We currently have "mismatched" community features which don't relate with each other all that great, I'm hoping to wipe them all out and stick Community Builder in their place.

Nick: Finally, what can you say about our 300K sized community?

Dan: A community with over 300,000 members is one heck of a community, I hope my website reaches 1,000 members.  I can't imagine the time and dedication that the Community Builder team must put in to maintain such website, bravo to you!

Well thank you Dan!
Welcome to our community!
Congratulations and enjoy your gifts!

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[Update: Celebration has ended. Raffles no longer take place. Promotion offers are gradually removed].
Joomlapolis has been around since the birth of Joomla and Community Builder, the open source script it supports has been around even more. Our community has just surpassed the 300K mark and we, the Joomlapolitans, are proud about this and feel like celebrating by giving back to Joomla and our membership even more.

It seems like yesterday when our mambojoe.com website passed the torch over to joomlapolis.com as the official home of the Community Builder suite, but in fact it's been over 4+ years since the 'Welcome to Joomlapolis' article was published. During this period a number of incredible milestones figures have been surpassed. Besides reaching the 300K membership milestone we have surpassed the 122 thousand forum post mark, the 2 million download mark and the 50 million website visitor mark!

These are all remarkable achievements which prove that our community is a strong and prosperous one. It is truly a time for celebration and thanks giving, and guess what? That's what we are about to do!

The CB Team and Joomlapolis have always been very active in the Joomla universe. We have participated in the past in various workgroups and have always assisted in making Joomla even better. As a small token of our gratitude, Joomlapolis will sponsor $1000 worth of top developer time to further Joomla 1.6 development. We are proud to be a part of this open source effort and will continue to assist in any way possible. Thank you Joomla!

The 300K festivities don't stop with our Joomla 1.6 sponsoring. Commencing from the registration of our 300K member up to the registration of our 301K user, we have a number of promotional offers in store for our membership.

• In addition to giving Joomla $1 development sponsoring for every user that subscribes during our celebration period ($1000 as mentioned above), we offering our 2 commercial templates - the MyCommunity template package and the Coolness template package - at the price of 1. Any registered Joomlapolitan can download both of these super efficient, lightning fast templates at the price of one.
• Joomlapolis will also be giving away 3 CB Documentation Subscriptions daily throughout the celebration period. All registered members (that are not already documentation subscribers) are automatically eligible.
• Existing CB Documentation subscribers will also participate in the festivities and are automatically eligible⁺ for our daily template giveaways. Three combined MyCommunity / Coolness template packages will be randomly awarded to existing CB Documentation subscribers every day during the 300K celebration period.
• Joomlapolitans are also given a 30% discount coupon towards the purchase of the newly published 'Using Joomla' book by Ron Severdia and Ken Crowder. In 'Using Joomla' there is an entire section dedicated to how to add social features to your website using Community Builder!
  
• Our own CB Team member Kyle, aka krileon, will be offering his AMS CB Virtuemart integration plugin free of charge!
• The Anything Digital team will be offering discount coupons worth $25 to $50 for their JCal Pro calendar application packages (CB plugins included of course). 
• Finally, the Software4Joomla team, specializing in CB related extensions, will be offering a 50% discount coupon for all their individual extensions.
  

All of these offers will be available throughout the duration of our festivities. Just visit your Joomlapolis profile to see coupons and offering image links. Our daily giveaway recipients will be announced on our Joomlapolis 300K Winners page.

The Joomlapolis team sincerely thanks ALL of its community and wishes everyone a great 'Community Building' year. We would like to conclude by announcing that CB 1.2.2 will be publicly released on March 1st and that two new CB Team plugins, the CB Facebook Connect plugin and the CB Twitter Connect plugin will also be released to all CB Documentation subscribers immediately after.

Visit your profile and take advantage of celebration offerings!

Purchase 2 for 1 templates bundle

Read our New Year's Resolutions

Lets party!!!

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+ All CB Documentation subscribers on the day of the giveaway automatically participate without need for any action. Participating in the random selection of this free giveaway is not bound to any purchase or paid membership. To participate without being or becoming a CB Documentation subscriber, you can register freely on this site (if you are not already a member, if you are just login) and go to your profile by clicking the Edit your profile link in the login module and entering the date of the drawing that you want to participate in  the '300K drawing date' field located in your Contact Info tab. The random drawing will take place every day (during the celebration period)  around 9pm UTC. Winning usernames will be announced in our Joomlapolis 300K Winners page and will also be notified via private message or email. Any claims regarding these giveaways are excluded.

Our 300K Celebration Raffle Results:

!! We have located and identified and interviewed our Mr. 300K Joomlapolitan !! 

Day 1 (25-Feb-2010):

Free Template-bundle Winners:

1. arnel@solimantechsolution
2. Bulatov
3. kenzen77 

Free 1 year CB Documentation subscription Winners:

1. Keric
2. koob
3. canarchy
   

Day 2 (26-Feb-2010):

Free Template-bundle Winners:

1. drak25
2. demonhater
3. spitj001
   

Free 1 year CB Documentation subscription Winners:

1. Ziygo
2. nimoyjohnson
3. Dbrain86
   

Day 3 (27-Feb-2010):

Free Template-bundle Winners:

1. adj0159
2. jlarkin
3. InfiNETMarketing
   

Free 1 year CB Documentation subscription Winners:

1. tliddell
2. zafjoomla
3. heartignite
   

Day 4 (28-Feb-2010):

Free Template-bundle Winners

1. Denis.Beurive
2. danycasanova
3. tilly
   

Free 1 year CB Documentation subscription Winners:

1. remco77b
2. gonzales72
3. arhie

LAST Day 5 (01-Mar-2010):

Free Template-bundle Winners

1. thecouponwiki
2. joso1951
3. ozdude
   

 Free 1 year CB Documentation subscription Winners:

1. oghe
2. unreakmixz
3. bogdan.dragulin
   

Congratulations to all !

Our celebration goes on while we are between 300,000 and 301,000 registered users (see stats on side-column). The original article about the Joomlapolis 300K Celebration is here.

As we have mentioned in our New Year resolutions, a number of great and exciting projects have been planned and are already in progress.

As always, we would like to get our Joomlapolitans involved. Our community is important to us - after all we are the home of the Community Builder. This is the time to express your opinion and concerns. This is the time to offer your assistance and make your proposals. We cannot guarantee that all proposals will be implemented, but we will listen.

One of the items on our list calls for a website redesign. We are aware that our site needs some major work. We will upgrade to Joomla 1.5 and we will reorganize all our services and offerings to make things easier for everyone. We would love to hear your opinion on this matter and also your proposals for what you would like to see in the new environment. What would really make your experience on our website better? What extra services would you like to see? Now is the time for action.

We are also in the process of reorganizing our WorkGroup teams. So if you are an experienced or not so experienced CB user or GroupJive user or a language plugin translator, then this is the time to act. If you have time to help out, this is your calling. We are continuously reorganizing our workgroup membership to make sure we always have an active group. Send nant a private message and he will give you instructions on how to join the respective WorkGroup.

This is the time for action - express your opinion, voice your concern, offer your assistance:

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