1. What Lies Beyond J
Joe LeBlanc

2. Each of you should look not
only to your own interests,
but also to the interests of
others.
Philippians 2:4

4. People have learned skills from
each other by talking back and
forth and building relationships.
This is Joomla’s True Merit.

5. Joomla is about more than code.

6. Apple’s success hinges on
staying “at the intersection of
Technology and Liberal Arts”
- Steve Jobs

8. Programmers Designers
Implementers End Users

9. The Intersection
"Strapped" Admin Template
Programmers
Designers
Implementers
End Users

10. The Intersection
Database Driver for Microsoft SQL Server
Programmers
Implementers

11. The Intersection
LESS-driven template color chooser
Designers
Implementers
End Users

12. The Intersection
New template based off a CSS framework
Designers
Implementers

13. The Intersection
Joomla-driven Git Client
Programmers
Designers
Implementers

14. The features that serve the needs
of more roles bring us closer to
the software we want.

15. We are making progress!
• Releases are coming on schedule
• Features are being added
• Upgrades are clicks away
• A fantastic admin UI is coming

16. We are missing features
• Database schema change management
• Live/dev configuration
• Scheduled tasks
• Advanced media management

17. Many web problems have already
been solved.
We can learn from other
projects when we look beyond
our community.

18. Solutions found Beyond J
Database Schema Changes: Rails.
• Code-driven, database agnostic approach.
• Fault tolerant, simple
• Use for core and for extensions.
Programmers Implementers

19. Solutions found Beyond J
Live/Dev configurations: Frameworks.
• We need a consistent way of doing this.
• Possible solution: different files & environment
variables
Programmers Designers Implementers

20. Solutions found Beyond J
Scheduled tasks: Drupal.
• Centralized recurring task management
• "Faux cron" has got to go
Programmers Implementers End Users

21. Solutions found Beyond J
Advanced Media Management: WordPress.
• Resize images to preset dimensions.
• Make image search and upload easier
Programmers Designers
Implementers End Users

22. How can we go beyond Joomla
this weekend?

23. How can we go Beyond Joomla now?
Working Group Meetings
• Bring your knowledge from Beyond J
• Speak up!
• Influence the high-level strategy

24. How can we go Beyond Joomla now?
Attend non-Joomla topics
• How would someone outside of Joomla
approach this?
• Does the Joomla way make sense?
• How can we make Joomla's implementation
the preferred approach?

25. How can we go Beyond Joomla now?
Joomla-specific topics
• Ask yourself: "If I were new to Joomla, where
would I get stuck?"
• Is there a way we can extend this feature to
serve more people?
• Learn from the presenters and ask questions

26. Conclusion
• Our software best benefits programmers,
designers, implementers, and end users
simultaneously.
• Look beyond Joomla for inspiration and
solutions.
• Keep looking to the interests of others.

27. Let's go Beyond J!

28. Credits
Philippians 2:4. Paul. New International Version English
translation by Biblica.
"Open Source Matters" montage. Forum User bohn002:
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=1267
This presentation used the Joomla! logo, which
represents the software we all know, love, and write
together. Use of this logo does not imply endorsement
of this presentation by either the Joomla! Project or by
Open Source Matters. Any color mis-coordination is
strictly my fault.