Brian Mitchell Presentation at JoomlaDay Chicago 2017

1. Why Open Source Matters

2. What is your
Joomla story?

5. 2001...

6. 2005...

7. 2006...

8. 2013 Harvard - JWC Boston

10. The Technical Case
● Security
● wp-content, I am looking at you!
○ One bucket for many different permissions levels
● Best practices
○ MVC
○ More consistency in extensions UX
● Layout and language overrides
● Fast AND stable development cycles

11. WP Philosophy
WP
● Read the WP philosophy - https://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/
● They are striving to meet 80% of needs for entry level end users with a 5 minute install
● Competing with proprietary DIY site-builders (wix, squarespace, godaddy, etc.)
Joomla!
● is about power, flexibility, AND simplicity
● I believe that integrators (website builders) are Joomla’s primary audience

12. The Business Case
● Open source (not-proprietary) - YOU own it!
● No corporate (for profit) sponsor - alignment of interests in community
○ Security strike team (volunteers looking out for the community)
● Secure
○ First to market with 2FA
○ Sucuri stats
■ 55-61% of WP hacked sites were out of date software
● Nearly half of all hacked WP sites are running the up to date version!

16. Why Open Source Matters