A couple of days ago the joomla! core group announced their final "burial" dates for joomla! 1.0.15 (legacy) and noted as well the discontinuance of listings for non-native 1.5+ third party components, modules and plugins.

While we at a8e.org certainly understand the importance of single-cycle project development and the inherit need to keep codebase (esp. during beta) on track, we feel strongly about the undeniable utility and extensible lifecycle of, what's become known as the "legacy" joomla, and, have every intention to continue to support and develop a8e (formally known as a8ejoomla) towards a stable content management platform, freely available under the GPL/GNU Open Source initiatives.

We encourage all joomla legacy component, module, theme and plugin developers who'd like to support a8e by joining our third party developer teams, adding their work to our upcoming aed (*a8e extensions directory) to contact us via email ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) for more information.

Over the last year we've had numerous requests from users looking for "packaged" or "bundled" versions of a8ejoomla that install in one easy process instead of installing a8ejoomla, finding and downloading additional 3rd party components, modules templates and plugins and then installing and debugging each in turn.

Initially, we'll be bundling a8ejoomla in three flavors, each specifically developed and designed towards a targeted niche market.

• a8e-blog: a8e bundled with mojoBlog (wordpress-like blog for joomla)
• a8e-wiki: a8e bundled with mojoWiki (Wiki for joomla)
• a8e-dev: a8e bundled with mojoSef and mojoDev admin tools (developers CM Framework)

As we get closer to release candidates we'll publish feature outlines of each and add FAQ's and Documentation to our tutorials and Wiki sections respectively.

Development updates have been a bit sparse lately here on a8e.org but that's not to say we've not been busy with our upcoming release of a8e *(developers version) which we should have available for download by early October 2008.

Additionally, we'll be releasing our new GPL administration theme for joomla and/or a8ejoomla the first week of September, Screencaps and features list will be published here over the next day or so.