Partners

Nooku is a collaborative effort driven by the highest-level Joomla! coders, business and non-government agency demand.  From this powerful alliance, what  emerges is a professional-level addition to the world's most popular open source CMS.

The Nooku story germinated from a seed of an idea created during a conversation between Joomla! lead architect Johan Janssens and government and NGO stakeholders who wanted multi-lingual magic, better than anything that had previously existed.

To this end, the initial concept and execution has been broadened by attracting more interest and partners who similarly needed a comprehensive solution to improve their scalability, administrator experience and, of course, deliver a multi-lingual powerhouse.

Our partners thus far fall into two categories — supporters and integrators.  Our supporters include the United Nations and Belgian Police.  Partners who will leverage commercially, using Nooku in Joomla! 1.5 multi-lingual deployments are our first certified integrators.  

 

The Belgian Local Police has part funded Nooku development to allow it to provide localised content in three languages. 

"The Belgian Local Police is organised in 196 police zones. We represent a group of 40.000 police-officers. Each zone has its own website created by Joomla!  As a Belgian public service we need to be (by law) trilingual (Dutch, French and German)."

- Marc Alen Commissioner of Police 


The United Nations Regional Information Centre provides information and documentation to the countries of the region. Its information outreach activities extend to all segments of society and joint projects and events are organized with key partners, including governments, the media, NGOs, educational institutions and local authorities.

A common UNRIC website is operational in 13 languages of the region: Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Nederlands (Dutch/Flemish), Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Each language site gives information about the most important current UN-related events, activities and observances, as well as UNRIC and UN family programmes in the region.

"If you are thinking multi-language; Nooku is a must have! Without it we couldn't even think to migrate to Joomla 1.5 As our website needs to drive 13 different languages. People who will use it won't believe the features and it's perfect integration with Joomla. For us this made a giant step forward to improve our web presence. It's just brilliant!" 

- Phillipe Chabot, ICT Coordinator, UNRIC 


delius has extensive experience in building complex, multilingual Joomla! sites. In addition to its CMS work, they deliver web-based applications based on open source solutions in fields such as CRM and online payment processing. delius works with companies and non-profit organisations. 

"First of all, we like Joomla!. We’re able to do what we need to do, and do it elegantly, with a lot of reuse. From a business perspective, that’s a strong plus. Smart development team, great community, open-minded and eager to learn from other projects … you all know how important that is.

Secondly – we need the solution. We’ve used Joom!Fish throughout several versions of Joomla!, and for us it’s not the way to go.

Finally – we wanted to give something back to the Joomla! community. We make money by doing projects with Joomla!. The community is a source of advice, learning, sympathy. I guess this is our way of saying ’thanks’."

- Paul Delbar, Delius


Unicum Business Solutions aim is to offer you the best available service, while ensuring a great and cost-effective solution, affordable for every organisation. Unicum offers their customers a wide range of software as services: Unified Communication & Delivery, Data & Storage, CMS and e-Commerce, CRM & Business Management Software.

"We saw that there's a need for such a multi-lingual extension for Joomla!, for us internally as well as for our customers and the whole community.  We wanted the team at Joomlatools to create a stunning application and to create more business opportunities for everyone."

- André Grüter, Unicum


Dutch Open Projects is one of the larger Open Source Development Companies in the Netherlands with an emphasis on Joomla! Implementations. As a Joomla! implementation expert we have been serviced a respectable number of larger multinational companies to implement their websites with the Joomla! platform.  Beside this expertise our customers also benefit from our knowledge and provision of secure hosting of Joomla! and other Open Source applications.

"As you might have noticed we deliver our services to a number of multinationals and organizations with an international focus. We believe the Nooku initiative will provide Joomla! with state of the art multilingual functionality which will mature the platform and meet our customers needs."

"And more in general we believe this initiative is a perfect example of how Open Source Development can be stimulated and brings the overall maturity level of a very popular CMS to the next level. As a Company who implements Open Source Applications it is a chance to contribute to the good work of the Open Source movement and refund just a small part to something we have benefit a lot from. We believe by doing this we can really contribute to the innovation of Open Source Software as a whole".

- Jurgen F Smit, Dutch Open Source Projects

 


One-Company Interactieve Communicatie builds and hosts open source CMS based websites. Their main work is done based on Joomla!, including design, templating, implementation, hosting, training, custom development, SEO and consultancy.

"More and more of our clients are running multi-language websites. We feel Nooku is the best solution for this purpose and decided to support the development of Nooku."

- Rene Kreijveld, One-Company Interactieve Communicatie
 


Web-Translations, a transatlantic translation group, intends to leverage Nooku in the highly-competitive website translation space.

"Web-Translations provides web services and professional language translation services. With a network exceeding 25,000 linguists and developers worldwide, we are experts at creating virtual teams to work on a variety of projects in 140 languages."

- Daniel Rajkumar, Managing Director Web-Translations


McNolia, McNolia, a Dutch company active since 1998, is a market leader in e-business application development and integration, servicing clients with marketingand technology solutions. Through multidisciplinary teams, McNolia creates innovative solutions for its national and international corporate clients by uniquely combining high tech expertise and open source products.

- Wiard Gorter, Director, McNolia


Marvelic Engine Co., Ltd. founded in 2004 , we aimed to share our knowledge and extend business capacity by providing “Open Source CMS” solution, web development service and CMS training. Now, we had added the services as E-Market place application and courses as Joomla mastering workshop to serve the various needs of the customer.

"Nooku is a convenient to work with multi-language website tool able to be fully supported for our customer requirements. Moreover, we think Nooku is becoming stronger with more and more features.  For this reason, we decided to support Nooku.”

- Pisan Chueachatchai – Project Manager Marvellic Engine

 

Fohlin Media AB design and build websites for companies and organizations. Fohlin is located in the island Gotland in Sweden, a well-known tourist destination with visitors from all around the world.

"Our customers in the tourist industry all need multilingual websites. Joomla is the best open source solution out there, but one big issue has been the lack of (good) multilingual solutions. We are glad that the Nooku project set off and gave us the possibility to be a part of this important step for the Joomla community".

Fredric Fohlin, CEO, Fohlin Media AB



JohnsonDiversey is a leading global provider of commercial cleaning and hygiene products and solutions for food safety, food and beverage hygiene, floor care, housekeeping, laundry, hand hygiene and industrial cleaning. Additionally, we offer a wide range of value-added services, including safety and application training, consulting, and hygiene auditing.

With sales in 160 countries, we serve institutional and industrial end-users such as food service providers, lodging establishments, food and beverage processing plants, building service contractors, retail outlets and health-care facilities.

"Global Communications Services is a department set up to create on and off-line media to support our training and marketing needs on a worldwide basis, and are planning to use Nooku to facilitate this knowledge sharing."

Nik Crosina, Advanced Multimedia Developer, JohnsonDiversey