Amit from Joomlatools contacted me to introduce me to their new company as well as their new product, Nooku. The introduction is somewhat ironic given the fact that Johan already contacted me last Spring. I have also had a link to Joomlatools' blogs in my Blogroll for a number of months!
However, it sounds like they're doing exciting stuff over at Joomlatools that should make quite a bit of the Joomla! community happy. Nooku looks like a great product and the extension/framework should help Joomla! 1.5 users create multi-lingual websites more easily. I wish the best for Joomlatools.
The following is a copy of the email Amit sent to CMS Report.
Hello,
We wanted to introduce ourselves to you & the Joomla community. We are a new company called Joomlatools, focused on building applications for Joomla users that want professional, extendable open source extensions. All of our extensions will be built from the ground up with lots of user feedback, tried and tested by real customers and professionally written by folks who helped create Joomla!
Our team consists of both experienced Joomla developers (Johan Janssens - major contributor to Joomla 1.5, Mathias Verraes - major contributor to DOCman and Shayne Bartlett - major contributor to LETTERman) and other open source contributors (Laurens Vandeput - Eclipse, Joomla) and Amit Shah (co-founder and VP Business Development of OpenX).
Our first application is called Nooku and is focused on helping Joomla users create multi-lingual websites easily, with integrated user workflow and translation management. Nooku fits seamlessly into Joomla 1.5 and is both an extension and a framework. To fund the application development needed to create this extension we have invited members of the Joomla community to contribute funds to employ our team of developers.
We would love your help in getting the word out about Joomlatools and our first application, Nooku. Please let me know if you would like to learn more about Joomlatools or our applications in development.
Regards,
Amit