Joomladay Brazil 2011 - Florianopolis

The Future of Joomla

Johan Janssens, Co-Founder Joomla

A story about collaborative innovation.

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Past

Present

Future

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The story of Joomla 1.5

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cmsmatrix.orgCompare 100’s of CMS systems

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3%1.8% 15%

The top 3

Why these ?

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It’s not the strongest of species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive

to change.

Charles Darwin

Survival of the fittest

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Joomla! CMS

Joomla 1.0

“A black box”

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Joomla ! CMS

Joomla! CMF

Components Modules Templates Languages

XML-RPCInstallationSiteAdministrator

Libraries Plugins

Extensions

Application

Framework

Joomla 1.5

“A Modularized architecture.”

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Contributors

Joomla has +/- 50 code contributors who contributed code

directly to the SVN.

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1.5

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Joomla contributions

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1.5

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Joomla contributors

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Explosion of change

Today Joomla has more then 8000 extensions.

http://extensions.joomla.org/

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UsersToday the official forums alone count a total of no less then 500.000 users and estimated total of 25

million downloads.

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Google trends, Joomla interest

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Job trends, Joomla use

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3% ofinternet

8000 extensions

The state of Joomla 1.6+

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Joomla is no longer a CMSA CMS is a so3ware product for storing,

controlling, revising, semantically enriching, and publishing data on the web. Version

control is one of the primary advantages of a CMS.

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Joomla is a platform !

A computing platform includes a so(ware framework that allows allows so(ware to run. A platform might be simply defined as a place to

launch so3ware.

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Platform

Framework

ProductA thing that helps you do something

A thing that helps you use something

A thing that helps you make products

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Joomla is our platform !We build products on it for ourselves, for

our clients, and our peers

The “framework” is out shared toolkit: we improve it so products can thrive

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The Joomla platform

extensions

+

Joomla

The Joomla Dilemma

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1.51.6

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Joomla contributions

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1.5 1.6

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Joomla contributors

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Google trends, Joomla interest

http://www.google.com/trends?q=joomla%2C+drupal%2C+wordpress&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

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Job trends, Joomla use

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Users vs ContributorsFor every contributor there are 10.000 forum users

or 0,0001% contributes code directly to Joomla.

The Joomla Dillema

“The Joomla Project is our tree of live. We feed of it’s fruits. In order to allow it to produce and grow it

requires our continuous nurturing.”

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The future of Joomla

Ask me how I became a pirate ?

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Innovate the platform“Treat our framework, our extensions and other related products as a web platform.”

“Translate user needs in platform flexibility

and extendibility”

Architecture before features

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http://ideas.joomla.org/forums/84261-joomla-idea-pool

“Define a technology vision to bring focus, drive innovation and accelerate growth.”

Define a technology vision

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HTML5

CSS3

Mobile

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“Free so3ware doesn’t improve by use, advocacy, mindshare, by having 10 million users. It improves by the participation and

contribution from it’s community.”

Don’t compete, collaborate !

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1. The freedom to run the program, for any purpose

2. The freedom to study the program

3. The freedom to distribute copies to your neighbor

4. The freedom to change the program.

The Free So3ware Definition

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

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Are you a Joomleiro ?Joomleiros are driven by altruism, reputation and experience. No boundaries, rules nor regulations can stop them. Joomleiros created the web, it will be Joomleiros who continue to shape it’s future

wherever that might be.

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Questions ?http://www.twitter.com/johanjanssens

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