The State of Joomla!
Robert Jacobi
@robertjacobi
What is
JOOMLA?
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Joomla! is a totally community driven project
where all people volunteer
with their expertise, time, and efforts
for free.
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Joomla! is an award-winning content
management system (CMS).
Ease-of-use and extensibility, have
made Joomla! one of the most popular
website tools available.
Open source solution that is
freely available to everyone.
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Joomla! has a well established,
mature codebase maintained by
a very large development team
with increasing Y-O-Y commits
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Joomla! is mostly written in PHP
with a well-commented source
code.
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Joomla! in numbers
Joomla! has had 29,000+ commits
made by 780+ contributors
representing 370,000+ lines of code.
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“Joomla is used by 6.8% of all
the websites whose content
management system we know.
This is 3.3% of all websites.“Source: w3techs.com
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300+Joomla! websites added
every daySource: w3techs.com
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Joomla 1.x 19.3 %
Joomla 2.x 24.8 %
Joomla 3.x 55.9 %Source: w3techs.com
Usage Statistics
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75,000,000+downloads from joomla.org
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85,000,000+downloads from joomla.org
Since February
2017!
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2-3 secondsfrom joomla.org
every
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7,888extensions.joomla.org
extend Joomla! with
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68languages
translated to
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692,000+forum members
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Joomla! 3.x
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Joomla! 4
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Ecosystem
Hosting Companies
Developing Houses
Web Agencies
Users
Sponsors
Extension Devs
Web Designers
Content Creators
Traffic Experts
SEO Experts
Freelancers
Administrators
Our Awesome
System Admins
Trainers
3rd Party Services
Template Devs Support Services
and many more…
Joomlers
Integrators
Payment Gateways
As any ecosystem -
Joomla’s ecosystem is fragile
and needs to be nurtured
to sustain and grow.
Google Summer of Code (GSOC)
Easier to get started
with Joomla!
joomla.org
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demo.joomla.org
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joomla.com
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downloads.joomla.org
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training.joomla.org
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showcase.joomla.org
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forum.joomla.org
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Easier to get started
building your Joomla!
knowledge & career
certification.joomla.org
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resources.joomla.org
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extensions.joomla.org
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User Groups
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Providing an attractive solution
Find ways to attract and keep Joomlers
Be even more attractive for partners
To keep up this growing user base
we need to keep focusing on …
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Easier to get started
volunteering for Joomla!
JoomlersVolunteers that proudly contribute
to the Joomla! project
volunteers.joomla.org
volunteers.joomla.org
Soren Beck Jensen
Rowan Hoskyns
Abrahall
Aleksander Kuczek
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It doesn’t matter who’s ideas,
who’s thoughts, or
who’s features
we end up using…
.. we do what’s best, we do
what’s right, we come back to
the heart of Joomla
every time.
Write a blog post
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CHALLENGE: JWC 2017
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Be somebody who
makes everybody feel
like somebody.
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