The Joomla! project

Why community matters!

CMS Expo, Chicago

Wilco Jansen

April 30, 2009

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Personal facts

Name: Wilco Jansen

Residence: Netherlands (Wijhe)

Occupation: Senior Program Manager

Education: Bachalor degree in bussines economics and

information technology and studied Master of

Science, knowledge engineering

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Joomla involvement

Current: Board Member Open Source Matters

Development Workgroup Member

Past: Joomla Coreteam member

(First ever) Development Coordinator

Google Summer of Code program manager

Creator of the Joomla! bug Squad

Google Higly Open Participation Contest

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The keynote

The keynote

A project like Joomla can only be achieved with an active community, in case of Joomla! the FOSS philosophy is used and the project materialized by the GPL

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The beginning…

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On 31 August 2005

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On 27 April 2009

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User Groups Around the world

• 4.640.631 visitors and 24.235.484 page hits past month

• 1.611.740 posts, 360.683 topics and 276.761 users in our forum

• Almost 10.000.000 download• 82.000 registered developers and 2.255

registered projects on Joomlacode• 4.688 registered (active) projects on our

extensions site• 60+ supported languages

To boldly go where no one has gone before?

To boldly go where no one has gone before?

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To boldly go where no one has gone before?

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The key for the growth of Joomla!

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The licence

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And community

“All together”

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