Joomla, open source and the power of volunteers

Victor Drover!Open Source Matters!victor.drover@opensourcematters.org @VicDrover

Joomla, Open Source and the Power of Volunteers

Open Source❖ Universal access via free

license to a product's design or blueprint.

❖ Universal redistribution of that design or blueprint, including subsequent improvements to it by anyone.

An open Operating System

Apps that run on Linux

An open publishing platformmake

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distributefor free

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477,241 lines of code

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427 Contributors

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❖ Advertising revenue!❖ Affiliate revenue!❖ Sponsorships!❖ Events

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?❖ 52,607,569 downloads!❖ 27,586,011 web sites!❖ $7,000,000 labor!❖ $765,000 revenue!❖ 477,241 lines of code!❖ 427 contributors!❖ 204 countries!❖ 67 languages

We’ve achieved a lot

178 User groups

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19 Events each year

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Event #183 !!!!

jandbeyond.org

conference.joomla.org

Who does all the work for the Project?

Organized & Decentralized Teams

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CLTpeople

Production Leadership Team❖ All things code!

❖ Coordinating & merging contributions!

❖ Bug Squad!❖ Quality assurance!❖ Coordinating releases!❖ Setting deadlines!❖ Code Sprints!

❖ INNOVATION!❖ CMS / features!❖ Framework

PLT

Production Leadership Team

Joomla 3.3 BETA❖ Lots of new things!

❖ 9:30 AM!

❖ Room 225!

❖ Michael Babker

http://bit.ly/1jMwZ5a

Open Source Matters❖ Legal!

❖ Licensing!

❖ Trademark!

❖ Domains!

❖ Contracts!

❖ Financial!

❖ Budgets + Taxes + Sponsors!

❖ Certification!

❖ Governance

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Community Leadership Team❖ Directories!

❖ Extensions (JED)!

❖ Resources!

❖ User Groups!

❖ Community magazine!

❖ Events!

❖ Forums!

❖ Translations!

❖ Documentation

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Extensions

Magazine

Forum

Posts: 2,885,030

Topics: 692,928

Members: 637,493

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Bugs & Translations Budget

Moving together

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Challenges

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victor.drover@opensourcematters.org

@VicDrover

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