One year after becoming an autonomous, community-controlled entity for the first time in its seven year development timeline, Mambo has reached a turning point in the history of one of the world’s most popular Open Source content management systems.

“The recent board elections of the Mambo Foundation, Inc. reflects the community’s vote of confidence in our abilities to manage an extremely large and successful open source project without having to depend on corporate participation” said Lynne Pope, newly elected president of the Mambo Foundation, Inc.

“The Mambo project is growing strongly and as a result, demand has increased for improved developer services. We will be working overtime to ensure that access to core structures are made accessible and to keep communication free-flowing and transparent” add Ms. Pope.

In August 2005, the Mambo Foundation, Inc was established as a non-profit governing body for the Mambo CMS by former Miro International CEO, Peter Lamont. “This caused some controversy amongst the community of users due to a broad spread of misinformation”, Lynne Pope stated. “The truth of the matter is that the Foundation was set up, all IP was transferred to it, and Peter Lamont held the reins as Chairman of the Foundation just long enough for the community to get ready for self-governance”.

Heading into its second year as a community-controlled organisation and following the election of a new Board of Directors, the second phase of endowment from the former sponsor of Mambo has been announced.

Peter Lamont, who has been running the mamboserver.com websites and the MamboXchange developer forge through his company, Mambo Communities Pty Ltd, has assigned the MamboXchange domain and websites to the Mambo Foundation.

“The Xchange rightly belongs with the Foundation who have demonstrated their ability and commitment to responsibly manage and grow the Mambo project and unite a large and growing community of dedicated Mambo users” said Peter Lamont. “I have no doubt that Lynne and the new board will take Mambo from strength to strength under accountable and transparent leadership and governance.”

The new Mambo forge can be found at http://mambo-code.org/

Read the full announcement and view the press release at forum.mambo-foundation.org/showthread.php?p=39338