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A Look @ Community Builder 2.0

@ J and Beyond 2011

Planned Agenda

About CB: Who and Where we are now

Who we are: CB Team Joomlapolis Community

Where we are now: Numbers Features

Where we are going: Funding strategy Development strategy

CB 2.0: State of the art

CB 2.0 research labs: CBSubs and our Incubator!

CB 2.0 already implemented areas of research

CB 2.0 new features

What remains to be done until release

What are your wishes ?

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Beat

‘beat’ on forums

Lake Geneva, Switzerland

MS EE/CS, PhD CS

Internet security / web-apps

“Make it as simple as possible, but no less”

Before we begin

We have 2 Community Builder related back-to-back sessions

CB 2.0 and Future

CB Solutions and Coding

CB Team will be present during both sessions

Beat (aka beat)

Nick (aka nant)

Kyle (aka krileon)

Depending on interests, we might merge sessions and even extend if interest exists to provide coding examples

CB Team members are available for consultation during conference – you can bump, or book appointment.


About CB

What is CB?

CB in 4 dimensions

CB Features

Funding strategy

Development strategy


What is CB?

Leading social networking solution that provides a clean, robust, secure social networking framework for all versions of Joomla.


CB in 4D

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CB in 4D: People

People perspective


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CB in 4D: Teams

Work-Groups

CB Team

3 dedicatedprofessionals full-time(Beat, Nick, Kyle)

A dozen volunteershalf-dozen contractors


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CB in 4D: Numbers

Facts and key points:

Leading social networking solution for Joomla and Mambo

Most popular component on JED, very widely used

Stable (first beta release Aug. 2004 ~ Mambo era)

Secure (only 2 vulnerabilities reported in its 6 year history – last one was 2 years ago)

Fast: Tuned for performance (5000 simultaneous users on one server)

Free and open-source GPL license


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CB in 4D: More numbers

Joomlapolis confirmed users base:390,000 (estimated to reach 400K in June)

Forum posts:159,000 (one of the largest native Joomla forum)

Estimated number of CB installations (base: google search):1,000,000 – 2,000,000

Estimated number of public CB User profiles (google search):60,000,000 – 100,000,000

Number of CB plugins:168 on JED64 from CB Team


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CB in 4D: Technical

Technical

Architecture

Core Functionality

Plug-ins

Features


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CB in 4D: Architecture


CB Core Features Extended registration form:

More fields, required, etc Tooltip popups First login redirection Show/Hide icons Ajax username and email checks

Extended membership info: Member since (date) Last visit (date) Last update (date) Confirmed Approved, Blocked, Pending Online status (show/hide frontend)

Approval workflow (B&F) Email confirmation Moderator approval

Tabs Multi-position layout (81 positions!) 7 display types ACL support

Fields in tabs: Registration form enabled Required Profile view

Field type supported: Profile Image (c) Username, Password (c) Primary Email Address (c) First, Middle, Last, Name (c) Connections (c) Forum stats (c) Joomla parms (lang, zone, …) Hits (c) Text Text area Editor area (HTML) Image Integer Date (pop js calendar) Check-box (Boolean) Multi-select check-box Radio Single-select drop-down Multi-select drop-down Delimiter (HTML + subs) Web-address (text + URL) Email Password


CB Core Features (more) Name Style:

Single name field First and Last name field First, Middle, and Last name field

Login field type: Username Username of email Email Username, email or plugin

authentication.

Email Handling: Display email only Display with mailto: link Link to form No display

Connections: Mutual consent or not Public or Private Cross connection or not Connection types Notifications (Email, PMS) Connection Path Degrees

Main Profile Avatar/Image Moderated (B&F) Registration form enabled Resized, thumbnail, secure

User Lists Direct URL link Up to 4 columns Multiple fields per column Include field titles in columns Groups to include ACL support for viewing Filtering :

Simple Advanced Dynamic

Sorting Frontend searching:

Simple exact match Simple any match Advanced all possibilities

Pagination Hot link protection


CB Core Features (even more)

Profile Templates: DIV or Table mode Default, Dark, WinClassic,

WebFX, OSX, Luna Membership Management

CB User Manager Simple filter (name, email,

username) Status filter (confirmed,

approved, pending, etc.) Advanced filer (CB field based

criteria)

Mass Email (CB User Mng) Personalized HTML content Configure chunks and delay

CB Online module Links to user profiles

CB Workflows module Actions for users Actions for moderators

CB Login module Vertical, horizontal Compact mode Pre/post text for login, logout Show Greeting Show avatar Show registration link (text,

icon) Show Forgotten link (text,

icon) Show pending actions Show messages (PMS

integration) Login, Logout redirection http/https support Integration with CB plugins


CB Core Features (still ticking …)

Private Messaging Integration CB Core plugin

uddeIM and others

Quick-message box

CB Menu when visiting profile

Connection notifications

CB Login integration

Articles Integration Show articles in tab on

author’s profile

Shows, hits, date, title

Links to article

Forum Integration CB Core plugin

Kunena and others

Show forum posts in profile tab

Show forum stats in user status tab area

Show thread subscriptions

Search, sort forum posts in forum tab

Show CB fields in forum sidebar

Advanced mode to support CB substitutions


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Everything offered is built over the powerful and

flexible CB API

Can be fully localized (messages, notifications, frontend and backend)

Features can be modified and added using CB plugins (installed by CB Plugin Manager)

Everything is cross Joomla compatible (1.6.x, 1.5.x, 1.0.x)

Hundreds of CB Plugins to chose from

Is distributed with detailed installation guide

Supported by a 390K large community on Joomlapolis!

Is GNU GPL v2 distributed

…. and …

IT’S FREE AS IN BEER!


Funding Strategy

CB is free … but someone has to pay for it …

Donations … yes, Thank You ...

Doc subscriptions

Services offerings: Consulting, Support, Services

Subscribers / Paid Members (Advanced and Professional)

CBSubs – Paid Subscriptions Membership Management Solution sales

Template sales (3 templates: MyCommunity, Coolness, Funlite)

Hosting service


Membership plans

Advanced 12 m.

Documentation (180+p)

Credits removal auth.for all your CB sites forever

15 CB Add-onsuse them on all your sites forever

GroupJive pluginsuse them on all your sites forever

Maintenance releases

Advanced Support forum(for all your site questions)

Professional 12 m.

All Advanced privileges

23 Incubator CB Add-onsuse them on all your sites forever

Maintenance releases and release candidate access

Professional Support forum for fast 2 bday turnaround(for all your websites)


50 € for 12 months 75 € for 12 months

Advanced CB add-ons

Captcha

Facebook connect

Twitter connect

Gallery + mod + doc

ProfileBook + mod

Privacy

Ajax File field

Ajax Text field

Ajax Rating field

AutoWelcome

Latest viewers


Incubator Add-ons


Incubator: Projets

CB Connect

CB Blogs

CB Invites

CB VirtueMart

CB AlphaUserPoints

CB Emails

CB Queries

CB FlySpray

CB Content bot

CB Template Changer

CB Progress Field (NEW)

CB Triggers

CB Redirect

CB Fields

AWK Language Grabber

PHP Memory Tester

CB Profile Update Logger

CB Code

CB Articles

CB Query Field

CB Google Translate

CB Forums (missing)

CB Conditional (NEW)


More incubator projects constantly added!

Templates

Ultra Fast, Light-Weight Joomla Templates!

Include Joomla 1.5 and 1.6 versions and CB template!

20-29 €/tpl


Hosting

Fastest website performance

Zero-click CB & Joomla! install

Optimized for Joomla! & CB

State of the art Top Security

Fully Redundant clustered clouds setup

Professional Support


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CBSubs™ membership subscription solution

CBSubs™ is a “special” plugin created for “our need” and commercialized to support FREE CB

Turn your Joomla website into a subscriptions based service

that protects any Joomla content element:article, category, section, component, module, …

based on “subscription plans”.

Has built-in access control mechanism

Clean, robust, no hacking solution

CBSubs™ has its own API and can have its own “plug-ins”


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CBSubs: Architecture

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Plan A

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• Joomla 1.5.X

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• DOCman

• Remository

• Jawards

• Jevents

• VirtuMart

• GroupJive

• Alphapoints

• Pap4

• Idevaffiliate

• AcyMailing

• SOBI

• Mostrees

• JoomGallery

• Kunena

• many more

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• Settings

• Currency

• Gateways

• Plans

• Baskets

• Payments

• Notifications

• Subscriptions

• Donations

• Merchandise

• Statistics

• History log


Plan B


Plan C


CBSubs 1.2

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Smart Promotions!

Demofollows

CBSubs Technology and Strategy

CBSubs was something we needed and developed Serves as test-bed for new technology development

CBSubs income helps keep CB free!

CBSubs uses new XML-driven (formal-descriptions) technology

Entire backend is implemented 99% with XML formal-descriptions

Frontend invoicing address and VAT forms also

Most of CBSubs is implemented with Layered MVC


This new technology IS already the basis for CB 2.0

Community Builder 2.0 : Features

Front-end:

New Look, New design, New web 2.0 User-interface

Integrates many add-ons and incubator concepts

New rendering engine, fully MVC templatable & overridable

New data and relations engine

Possibility to give more control to members

PHP 5.2+ / MySQL 5.0+ / Joomla 1.5/1.6+, Easy Upgrade

Admin area:

Entire Administration Area entirely rewritten & XML driven

Quick configuration, Efficiency, Even more flexibility


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GroupJive 2.3

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EVENTS

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CB 2.0 XML Technology

New XML-driven development technologyInternal research Field tested Advantages

Example: following table requires zero lines of specificPHP and Javascript implementation:

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Pro Plugin: CB Connect (available NOW)


Login to your site withGoogle, Facebook or OpenSocial.

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CB Connect: Google Comments

Add Google gadgets to your profiles!


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CB Connect: Facebook LiveStream

Add Facebook Gadgets to your profiles!


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CB Connect: Friends Connect Comment


What remains to be done until release

Move the new engines from CBSubs into CB

Refactor the incubator plugins and GroupJive core into CB

More new CB templates (call for template designers)

Test it, Package it & release it!

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Thank you for your attention


Your CB Team @ www.joomlapolis.com

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