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- 1. Kunena Forum Project Matias Griese Lead developer of Kunena Email: matias@kunena.org Twitter: @MatiasGriese Web: www.kunena.org Joomla! Day Finland 2011 5-11-2011
- 2. What’s Kunena? ✔ Free forum component ✔ Native for Joomla! 1.5, 1.7 and beyond ✔ 4 major releases ✔ Active development & support ✔ Bug fix release cycle every 2-3 months Kunena Forum Project 5-11-2011
- 3. What’s Kunena again? ✔ Community based project ✔ Translated into 20-30 languages ✔ 1.6M downloads, used in 300-500k sites ✔ Many add-ons ✔ Import from phpBB, SMF2, Joomla forums Kunena Forum Project 5-11-2011
- 4. RIP FireBoard 6/2008 - 12/2008 ✗ No strategic vision ✗ Not responding to needs of the community MY OWN needs were not met ➔ Build it myself or use something else With others feeling the same Kunena was born Kunena Forum Project 5-11-2011
- 5. Major Releases Kunena 1.0 2/2009 – 11/2009 ● First objective: make it usable Kunena 1.5 6/2009 – 1/2011 • Second objective: Broaden its appeal Kunena 1.6 & 1.7 3/2010 – • Third objective: Make it maintainable & Joomla! 1.6+ Kunena Forum Project 5-11-2011
- 6. Kunena 2.0 – New Vision Objective: Communication platform ➢ Providing a way forward for existing users ➢ Performance & Scalability ➢ Easy & powerful integration ➔ More than just a forum (for J! 1.5 & 2.5) Kunena Forum Project 5-11-2011
- 7. Kunena 2.0 Teaser Kunena Forum Project 5-11-2011
- 8. How did Kunena become popular? Q: How to succeed with Open Source? ● Be open • Gain a good reputation • Build your community • Organize your project Kunena Forum Project 5-11-2011
- 9. Be Open; Collaborate ✔ GPL: visibility in JED ✔ GitHub: allow others to participate ✔ Transifex: make translating easy ✔ Forum: allow people to help themselves ✔ Wiki: allow people to find information Kunena Forum Project 5-11-2011
- 10. Be Known; Gain Reputation ✔ Be responsive to the users needs ✔ Use media: positive JED reviews ✔ Aim for robustness, reliability, quality ✔ Strong partnerships and connections Kunena Forum Project 5-11-2011
- 11. Build Your Community ✔ Reward the most helpful users ✔ Bind key people to your project ✔ Provide new opportunities for volunteers to participate ➔ Self helping and active community Kunena Forum Project 5-11-2011
- 12. Organize Your Project ✔ Leadership skills; keeping it together ✔ Technical skills; understanding technology ✔ Journal skills; telling a good story ✔ Design skills; attracting new people ✔ Marketing skills; turning users into addicts ➔ Nobody can do everything alone Kunena Forum Project 5-11-2011
- 13. Managing Your Community Shit happens: Deal effectively with trouble makers Deal with internal conflicts DON'T HESITATE to kick out team member if he becomes an obstacle Kunena Forum Project 5-11-2011
- 14. Managing Your Project Team members (including you): ● tend to do whatever they want to ● may have 8h / day or 1h / week ● often promise more than they can deliver ● come and go Kunena Forum Project 5-11-2011
- 15. Why Do People Participate? ● Fulfilling their own needs ● Having fun ● Believing in the project ● Worship of the leader Kunena Forum Project 5-11-2011
- 16. Kunena – Who Are They? LittleJohn, 810, Matias, svanschu, xillibit (fxstein, severdia, sozzled, Mortti, rich...) Kunena Forum Project 5-11-2011
- 17. Why To Start Making Money? ● There is no room for sentiment in life ● Your efforts are valuable ● Project needs predictable schedules ● Project needs reliable support ● Project needs to grow Kunena Forum Project 5-11-2011
- 18. How to make money? $1 000 000 question! Kunena Forum Project 5-11-2011
- 19. Questions? • Questions? Kunena Forum Project 5-11-2011
- 20. The end Thank you for listening Kunena Forum Project 5-11-2011