They forked to escape a Foundation. Then they formed a Foundation. Then they rebooted Mambo Love without the guy who was #1 Leader of Love. This is the expose they deleted twice — guestbook and all.
"…the Lone Mamber's writing, albeit fictional, has always been funny and well written and I quite enjoy it."
— Peter Lamont, Miro CEO & Mambo Foundation Chairman
Header quote on the archived Blogspot. Erased from official Joomla history. R.I.P. Peter Lamont — Chief's account: actually a kewl guy. The beef is with captured Foundations, killed projects, and institutional erasure. Lone Mamber has no beef with the departed.
Archive trophies — recovered from Wayback
Original Blogspot header art, MamboLove scoreboard, CafePress badges, and sidebar graphics — pulled from tinypic and Blogger photo hosts before they vanished again.
"Weeell, he's the leader of Love, alright!" — Aug 31, 2005. Stripped when inconvenient. Visitor IPs leaked on the public scoreboard.
CafePress "I'm the Lone Mamber" badge — proceeds to Joomla.Badge in the wild — on a pilgrim's bag strap.Group Love — Peter Lamont center frame.Lamont — Miro CEO, Mambo Foundation Chairman, #1 referrer.Time for Joomla! — logo competition finalist dispatch.
Badges the core core team wore to Linux expo
Sep 10, 2005 CafePress store live at cafepress.com/lonemamber. Go Joomla! campaign gear — badges that literally read "I'm the Lone Mamber!" The core core team wore them to a Linux expo — not the marketing nemesis. Pretty sure the inner circle didn't even like that guy. LOLOLOL. Then marketing booted the cowboy anyway. BAAAAAHAHA.
Wikipedia — external link deleted (Sep 2005)
Before the guestbook. Before Spread the Joomla Love. The Lone Mamber was scrubbed from the Joomla! article's external links — days after the fork, while the page was still labelled a current event.
"Can we please keep the external links to relavant/important sites only… The Lone Mamber" — removed by Shoffman11, 4 Sep 2005. "Somebody debate the Lone Mamber with me if you want."
Wrobertson pushed back an hour later: the blog was "a significant part of the ongoing debate… perhaps the most important link to the controversy part of this article."
Dixen re-added it in Dec 2005: "commentary on the situation itself that lead to the creation of Joomla… relavent in and of itself." By Mar 2006 the link-warriors wanted it gone again — no longer a "current event." Erasure won in the end. Official history founders only.
Same playbook as 2025 curate the zeitgeist, delete the inconvenient Mamber.
Latest dispatch · Saloon blog
Lone Mamber GRAVitates!
Blogspot → Joomla! → Grav CMS. Twenty years of fork-era receipts land on flat files, GravMUD.mud dispatches, static export, FVlabs Admin2 extensions, and GetGRAV! at gravfans.live. Bri Bri can't moderate this stack. BAAAAAAAHHAHA.
May 2026 Chief posted multiple 20-word guestbook entries on Spread the Joomla Love. First four were removed fast. One survived long enough to capture.
Old copy (rapid-fire set)
Open-source memory outlives any edit button; communities thrive when inconvenient contributors stay cited, credited, and impossible to quietly erase forever.
You can prune comments, not history; every deletion teaches newcomers exactly who feared context, debate, receipts, and the people watching.
Congrats on twenty words; chapters vanish on schedule. Funny how transparency arrives wearing confetti, then leaves with moderation tools again.
Respect to builders past and present; real anniversaries include dissenting voices, uncomfortable receipts, and the courage to preserve messy truth.
Delete the trail signs if you like, pardner; hoofprints still point home, and campfire stories keep naming who rode first.
Surviving capture "Delete the trail signs if you like, pardner..." signed DAMIAN CHARLES CAYNES. First four deleted, this one preserved.
2005 Wikipedia link deletion. 2025 guestbook deletion. 2026 rapid-fire twenty words. Same curation playbook; better receipts this time.
What actually happened
Aug 2005 — The fork
Mambo's core team walks. Open Source Matters. Joomla! Miro keeps the trademark and launches MamboLove.com — Love Points, affiliate badges, Lamont at #1 on the scoreboard.
The Lone Mamber rides in
One concerned Mambers — not core dev, not Miro — runs investigative journalism from a Blogspot saloon. Secret core teams exposed. Ex-Miro staff speaks. Foundation members interviewed. Smoke signals to the press.
Go Joomla! — booted
Go Joomla! — a Go Firefox!-style campaign for the Forge. Tentatively on the original team. Deemed unnecessary. Marketing guy = nemesis. The core core team wore the "I'm the Lone Mamber!" badges to Linux expo anyway — Teeman wasn't there. Inner circle energy. Scrubbed from the zeitgeist. Again.
Foundation déjà vu
The thing that caused the Mambo fork? A captured "Foundation." Joomla's answer immediately form the Joomla! Foundation. Lower fees. Same corporate mumbo jumbo. Lone Mamber dropped the cowboy act — didn't want to turn if they went weird. They went weird.
Timeline — archived, not approved
First post on shiny new Joomla forum as lonemamber — spreading the word, linking big sites.
#1 Leader of Love on MamboLove.com. Stripped when inconvenient. IPs leaked on the Love scoreboard. Classy.
Wikipedia: Lone Mamber external link removed from Joomla! article — Talk page debate. Defended, re-added, eventually scrubbed for "professional appearance."
CafePress "I'm the Lone Mamber" badges — proceeds to Joomla. Team wore them to Linux expo. Ahem.
Joomla! 1.0 + J-Forge launch dispatch ends "So enough writin' and readin', let's go Joomla!"
Blog moves to lonemamber.com on Joomla 1.0.1. Frontier Publications goes pro.
Inspired Digital — Chief's agency site on Wayback. Fork-era receipts. Images increasingly MIA on IA.
Blogspot survives. Agency clowns squat the .com for years. Official history founders only.
Erased from Joomla history. Erased from the web zeitgeist. Template agency clowns squatted this domain for years. It's back on the market.
If Joomla had run Go Joomla! they'd be kicking WordPress ass. They didn't. WordPress won. Doctor D builds plugins live with AI instead. The Lone Mamber puts the coconuts up on the record — Team DC phrasing applies.
Thankye kindly for readin'. The Lone Mamber Dr. D. Charles Caynes · FutureVision Labs · Wishart QLD
