state of joomla january 2016

STATE OF JOOMLA

Tessa MeroDeveloper Advocate for Joomla!

[email protected]

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

Open Source Contributor


• PLT• OSM – Previously• JED Team• Organizer Seattle PHP Meetup• Organizer Seattle Joomla Meetup• Conference Organizer

State of Joomla - Summary


What is Joomla?

Who is Joomla?

Our Current State

Where are we headed?

What is Joomla?



• 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+

Who is Joomla?


YOU!


Who are the leaders behind

Joomla?


11

Future Org StructureNew Structure


Communication Channel

Our Current State


Rainbows and Butterflies!!


Joking – The Truth!


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

Joomla 3.4 Release


New Joomla Logo


---- Goodbye!!!!!

Volunteers Portal Launched


Joomla.com Launched – January 2015


Joomla.com Features!


• Free hosting/subdomain• Lots of templates!• Fully Responsive!• Super optimized hosting!• Automatic Updates!

• Thank you to our hosting partner Siteground!

Statistics


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

New JED 3.0 System


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

Where Are We Headed


Joomla 3.5 Timeline


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

What’s in the Joomla 3.5 Package?


** Release Leader – Roland Dalmulder **

Features:

• Router Improvements• Count Items• Download system/environment information• TinyMCE drag/drop images• Backwards Compatibility• Lots more

Joomla 4.0?


Coming Soon to a CMS near you!

• Joomla 4 Working Group• Led by Marco Dings

• Want to participate or give feedback?• [email protected]

Developer Community Sponsorships


Joomla contributors are speaking at more developer conferences and also sponsoring more developer related conferences.

An “Open” Open Source Community


We are bringing in speakers at conferences from other Open Source Communities, such as Drupal, WordPress, PHP, Mozilla, and many other communities.

Joomla Certification Exams


WHAT DOES JOOMLA MEAN TO YOU?


Community – Website - Friendship

Daniel Dubois

The choice to be a part of something made by and for othersJennifer Marriott

Work, Friends, Giving

Jacques Rentzke

Joomla! is about having a community of contributors who want to give back to the project.

Tessa Mero

forums.joomla.org

volunteers.joomla.org

extensions.joomla.org

joomla.com

THANK YOU@tessamero

[email protected]

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