2. I’m Tessa!!!!
STATE OF JOOMLA Tessa Mero
• College Instructor/Curriculum Developer
• Web Developer
• How I got into Joomla!
• Snowboarder
• Mother of 2
• Love to speak – educate - inspire
3. Open Source Contributor
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• PLT
• OSM – Previously
• JED Team
• Organizer Seattle PHP Meetup
• Organizer Seattle Joomla Meetup
• Conference Organizer
4. State of Joomla - Summary
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What is Joomla?
Who is Joomla?
Our Current State
Where are we headed?
6. STATE OF JOOMLA Tessa Mero
• Joomla is Swahili for “All Together” (Jumla)
• Fork of Mambo CMS, started 1 Sept 2005
• 10th Birthday Last Month!
• Free and Open Source Software
• 100% volunteers
• 65,000,000 + Downloads!
• 7,468 Extensions for Joomla 3+
15. Joking – The Truth!
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Lots of hurdles and bumps in the road
HUGE decision making in leadership
Staying and growing strong together
Equals to creating a brighter future for Joomla
20. Joomla.com Features!
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• Free hosting/subdomain
• Lots of templates!
• Fully Responsive!
• Super optimized hosting!
• Automatic Updates!
• Thank you to our hosting partner Siteground!
21. Statistics
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7,475 Extensions on the Directory
209 Joomla User Groups in the World
23,603 commits to Joomla code
429 contributors to the Joomla code
22. New JED 3.0 System
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5,000,000 page views per month
Estimated 50 MORE reviews per day in comparison
Estimated 20 MORE listings per day in comparison
Automation for Approvals
New developer volunteer team
Follow Working Group Reports on Volunteer Portal &
Newsletters
24. Joomla 3.5 Timeline
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February 2016– Joomla 3.5 stable
1st Quarter – 3.6 2nd Quarter – 3.7
Current Version: 3.4.8
Joomla 3.5 beta is available now On Github
25. What’s in the Joomla 3.5 Package?
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** Release Leader – Roland Dalmulder **
Features:
• Router Improvements
• Count Items
• Download system/environment information
• TinyMCE drag/drop images
• Backwards Compatibility
• Lots more
26. Joomla 4.0?
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Coming Soon to a CMS near you!
• Joomla 4 Working Group
• Led by Marco Dings
• Want to participate or give feedback?
• Marco.dings@community.joomla.org
27. Developer Community Sponsorships
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Joomla contributors are speaking at more
developer conferences and also sponsoring
more developer related conferences.
28. An “Open” Open Source Community
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We are bringing in speakers at conferences
from other Open Source Communities, such as
Drupal, WordPress, PHP, Mozilla, and many
other communities.
I’m Tessa! I’m a college instructor teaching web development at a college and currently doing curriculum development work.
Previously, I spent many years as a web developer for a Ski & Snowboard company, which is how I discovered Joomla. While I was still in college learning how to code, I was hired at the company and needed a platform to begin working on. I found Joomla as a solution and was sent to a 2 day joomla training course in a live classroom with OSTraining and then sent to a Joomla Day conference in New york City. The rest is history.
On my free time, during the winter, I love to snowboard. Since I worked at a Ski and snowboard company, I happen to be hooked up with all the gear I needed. I worked with a lot of semi professionals and had colleagues give me lessons in exchange for beer.
I am a mother of 2 beautiful children. A 6 year old son and a 5 year old daughter. They are my motivation in life.
I love speaking. I may not be the best speaker. I may not be the most confident speaker. But I am here because I love to educate and I love to inspire. If you see this as your dream to speak, I’d love to mentor you and help you become your dream.
This is me. I identify myself as an open source contributor. I absolutely love to give my time for the Joomla Project. I’m on the Production Leadership Team, I was previously on the board of directors for Open Source Matters, which manages the Joomla Project. I am the organizer of the PHP meetup and the Joomla meetup in my local area. I am also a conference organizer for the PHP community.
I will talk more about PLT and OSM soon.
So here is a summary of what I’ll be talking about.
“All Together” was chosen to reflect the commitment of the development team and community to the project.
Open source software is software that you can modify and redistribute.
You are Joomla. Everyone who uses Joomla and anyone who contributes Joomla is all part of what makes Joomla so successful.
Our current structure consists of 3 leadership teams that work together. Within each leadership team have several dozens of sub teams that manages different areas of the project.
OSM – Open Source Matters, Inc – The board of directors for the Joomla Project that manages the legalities, finances, and the trademark of the project. Board member – Glip Partnership
PLT – The production leadership team – In charge of the future project release, the core develment of the software, and engagement with the developer community.
CLT – Community Leadership Team – In charge of the Joomla Magazine, the Joomla Forums, the Extensions Directory, and the Joomla Docs.
With the new structure, the organization will break up into departments, similar to WordPress’s structure, where it’s very clear which team does what.
The Production team itself will have over 20 sub teams.
Reasons for the structure change:
Empowering more people to be involved
Distributing decision making effectively
Encouraging active volunteers to continue contributing
Increase transparency and communication between teams
Placing trust in individuals and teams
Defining a more understandable structure with defined positions and workflows
All of our active Joomla contributors use a software called Glip to use for a communication channel and to collaborate and work together. Are you a contributor in any way? Would you like to start contributing? Email me to get access to our Glip channel. My information will be at the end.
Everything is rainbows and butterflies and it’s a perfect world.
I’m joking! It’s not always rainbows and butterflies. The leadership in Joomla is dealing with major decisions that affect the project as a whole. We all have agreements and disagreements. We have bad days and good days and we are only staying and growing stronger together. This equals to creating a brighter future for Joomla. We are doing this for you and we are doing this to make Joomla even more amazing in the future.
On December 31st, 2014, Joomla 2.5 reached the end of life. In February 2015, Joomla 3.4 stable was released.
For those who do not know, we had our logo recreated. Thanks to a wonderful contributor in joomla who specializes in brand design, she has created our new Joomla logo with a flat and clean design, as seen at the bottom.
The Volunteer Portal was launched back in November 2014 by Sander Potjer and his team. You can find presentations about how the Volunteer Portal works by googling “Sander Volunteer Portal Joomla”
In summary, the greatest thing about the portal is you can see all the Joomla working groups and their team reports to see the great things they’ve been working on lately for our project.
One of our big accomplishments as a Project is our launch of the Joomla.com website in January 2015.
Using joomla.com to launch a site is free to host and free to use a subdomain and is really fast and easy to launch. There’s lots of templates, it’s fully responsible and has automatic updates.
Thank you to our hosting partner Siteground for making this happen!
Here are some amazing statistics as of today.
7, 475 extensions in the directory, 209 joomla user groups in the world, 23,603 commits to the joomla code, and 429 contributors to the joomla code.
These numbers will be exponentially growing over time as Joomla becomes bigger and greater.
The current Joomla version is Joomla 3.4.8, so if you are using a Joomla 3 website, make sure it’s updated to that version. Since there has been a few insecure versions of Joomla 3 released, it’s important to update asap since it only takes a minute to hack into your site.
Joomla 3.5 beta has been launched. Make sure you only use this on test sites and not production sites. Our beta really needs testers like you, so if you have some time to spare, download 3.5 and try to click on things and break it or find bugs.
Joomla 3.5 stable plans to be released in February 2016, which is a month away from now.
Joomla 3.6 has plans of adding web services, removing unnecessary sample data, adding a new MVC (Model View Controller), and improving translations
Joomla 3.7 will be improving the installation experience, adding a whole new media manager, and removing unnecessary extensions.
With the router improvement, it is a new base class for component routers, which can be used to create rules based routers that are dynamically extendable.
Count Items – Adds the number of published, unpublished, and trashed articles in the category manager for the articles, banners, contacts, and newsfeeds
Download System/environment information – You can download system information for support purposes
Tiny MCE drag/drop images, basically what it says :)
Backwards compatiblity to ensure code doesn’t break when updating your site.
The Joomla 4 Working Group is led by Marco Dings. They are still working on getting more volunteers to prepare for the launch of Joomla 4.0
Future improvements include features and improved SEO as well as a new administrator template with minimal options.
We are bringing in speakers at conferences from other Open source communities, such as drupal, wordpress, PHP, mozilla, and many other communities. Joomla is an “Open” open source community. We equally love everyone and do not believe in talking down or excluding other communities or competitors.
First off Sarah Watz, the President of Open Source Matters for Joomla, wanted to give a big “hi” and a shoutout to the group. I had a great conversation with her today about the certification exam status.
They plan on launching the exam during Quarter 1.
Currently they are discussing a badge to earn with the marketing team.
They finished deciding on the price list for the exams, based on the person’s country.
Contracts have been sent out to the lawyers for approval.
If you are a User Group leader or Conference organizer, you can apply to be a certification proctor, which means you can get your user group members certified right here.
So I sent out a tweet on Twitter and asked people, “What does joomla mean to you?”. So I quoted the first 3 people who repiied to me.
Here are some quick links to remember to visit. The Joomla Forums, the Volunteer Portal, the Extensions Directory, and our new Joomla.com website to set up hosting and domain.