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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.
a8e.org plans to continue supporting/updating a8ejoomla for as long (and probably longer) as OSM maintains the soon to be “legacy” joomla.
In the interim, we’ve been actively working on a deep overhaul of a8ejoomla which will focus more towards developing a8ejoomla as a structured, stable, semantic framework: a drastically lightened and hardened version we’ve named a8e-dev.
The documentation following this preamble will eventually cover all the basic “care and feeding of..”
a8eJoomla is not affiliated with the Joomla! core team or Open Source Matters, Inc.
a8ejoomla and a8eDev Project team members: