=== About a8eJoomla! ===

a8eJoomla is an [[open source]] project released under the [[GNU/GPL]] license and is made available for free to anyone wishing to use it for personal or commercial websites. You can download a free copy in our download section.

=== Timeline ===

The a8eJoomla project was started by Matthijs Wensveen & Zoran Kovacevic in September 2005 at the same time the Mambo core team split from Mambo CMS to form their own project (now known as [[Joomla!]]) under the not-for-profit organization: [[Open Source Matters]].

a8eJoomla started as a core fork of Joomla, and was redeveloped around a more semantic, unburdened xhtml framework. 
From early 2005 to end of 2006 a8eJoomla was quite an active project but, by early March 2007, Matthijs the developer of a8eJoomla decided to cease developing and maintaining a8eJoomla. The project was handed over to Duvien Trang who, for the last year, tirelessly promoted and supported the ongoing development of a8ejoomla, managed the other core team members and maintained version compatibility between a8ejoomla and it's brethren, joomla.

Today, the baton has been passed on and we've shifted gears once more; pointing the [[a8e development roadmap]] in a new direction so.. a8ejoomla is set to split yet again.

=== Support and Documentation ===

a8e.org will continue to support a8ejoomla with updates, security releases, patches and fixes. These files can be found in our downloads area. A new CVS repository for contributing developers is in the works and can be found at our home on [[http://sourceforge.net/projects/a8e-dev/]]