Greetings Fellow Joomlapolitans!

Our four day old community (remember this site went public on November 14th) is growing fast. At the time of this writting we have over 430 registered Joomlapolitans and close to 9000 hits! Not bad for starters.

As mentioned in previous updates the entire concept driving this website is to support and showcase the capabilities and potential of its supported products - which at this moment are focused around the Community Builder suite. At the same time, we must also listen and respond to our community's feedback - after all community building is what its all about (this might turn out to be a nice slogan!). Having said this, we are planning some website maintenance activities to take place over the weekend (19-20 Nov). During this period (the exact time depends on our extra spare time and personal schedules) our site will be down briefly (~ 1 hour) to perform some of the following activities: Upgrade to the latest CB 1.0 RC2 version (currently we are running build 12 - the TY release is build 13), change some of the Joomlapolitan Card CB Fields (add extra languages to language multi checkbox field, make CB Platform field a multi-select field to track current use of Joomla vs Mambo, add a new Editor type field on a new tab to allow members to further express themselves, and whatever else comes to mind).

Finally, the JP Team will also start using more and more features of the Community Builder and its supported integrated components, such as the Yanc Newsletter component.

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Our project area over at developer.joomla.org has just opened a package were all language plugins for Community Builder 1.0 RC2 are deposited and are open to the public. Language plugin developers may also use the instructions file in the area to construct new language packages and submit them to the community by contacting members of the CB Team on this site. You may visit this package depository by clicking here.

 

The wait is over! The CB Team has concluded all internal processes and is now ready to announce the release plan of Community Builder version 1.0 RC2. CB 1.0 RC2, also known as the plugin framework release, combines the deployment of new core features along with the fundamental architectural redesign of a large part of its internal engine in order to enable third party developers to extend its functionality and integrate with other components without compromising its core functionalities and its core code.

As announced, RC2 will be initially provided to our trusted supporters, who via donations and contributions have kept us going morally and spiritually. If you have donated money over at Mambojoe.com or you feel that you have contributed to the cause in some other way, please register as a Joomlapolitan over at www.joomlapolis.com and state in the relative registration field why you feel you should be given access along with some reference data (e.g., paypal proof, etc.). Your account will be approved (please be patient - we have decided on a manual approval approach to better manage these matters since human screening is necessary) and depending on you valid aurgument your profile field THANK YOU Release will be checked or not.

All THANK YOU members can follow the count-down to release via the countdown module located on the Joomlapolis home page. The RC2 release will be available via the Download area of Joomlapolis.

The following list attempts to enumerate all the existing features in the Community Builder component upto and including release candidate 2. The list is by no means complete as there are a lot of minor "functional" related capabilities that would need a detailed specifications document in order to correctly describe and present.