The Problem : If you would use JomSocial for a school website you like different types of profiles for students, teachers and other staff. Obviously the fields used in the teacher's profile are going to be different from the fields in the student's profiles. OR You are running a music producer page and you want to have songwriters, bands, producers, singers and so on. Again the fields in one profile need not be meaning full for other user types.

Its less then a month to go until I will present a couple of talks during the Joomla!Day Germany 2009 in Bad Nauheim. With Robert in the back I need to prepare the slides soon and I think the other speakers will do so as well. Beside the fact that the venue is just awesome this will become one of the most exciting events of this year. The Joomla!Day with its Community focused event on Saturday is a true  Community event which will give you the opportunity to talk with current and former core developers of the Joomla project. Speak to people from around the globe about your ideas and wishes related to the project. Yes we are getting more and more information about world wide community members attending the event and this is not only from Europe but from other regions too - stay exited and watch the news ;-).

The 4th Annual Open Source CMS Awards sponsored by Packt Publishing is open for nominations Joomla! is eligible for Best PHP Open Source CMS and you can also nominate project contributors as Open Source MVPs The nominations are open until September 11. Voting among the top five nominees will begin on September 18.

JV-Extensions is glad to inform everyone of the successful transitioning of all our Joomla extensions (JV-LinkExchanger, JV-LinkDirectory, JV-ContentLinks and JV-Relatives) to GPL model. We worked at a rapid speed to ensure that, the transition is quick. Some of the things that have changed or newly introduced are

The Thai Joomla! Community is looking forward to their third Joomla! Day Bangkok in Thailand's beautiful and thriving capital city. The event will be held on Saturday, August 22th and Sunday,August 23th 2009, from 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM at Sripatum University.The place where the event has a conference room for 800+ people. JoomlaCorner.com and the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) invite you to attend Joomla! Day Bangkok 2009 which promises to be an incredible day of learning, sharing, and networking with others.

The Joomla Project is excited to celebrate a remarkable benchmark in the world of open source—our 10 millionth download.

As one of the most powerful publishing platforms available, Joomla has grown exponentially since it's first release in 2005, which was downloaded just over 72,000 times from JoomlaCode. That meteoric rise in less than four years is a solid statement by the Joomla Community about how the project changes lives all over the world.