Italian Joomla!Day 19 January 2008

Joomla! “All together”
Joomla!day Presentation
Rome, Italy
19 January 2008

About Me Wilco Jansen aka Willebil Joomla! Core Team Member Development Working Group Coordinator

Presentation Overview
The Joomla! Project
How are we organized?
How can you get involved?
Our current status...let’s throws some statistics
Joomla! branches

What is Joomla?
Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody.
The Joomla! project

Where are our users located? The Joomla! project

Joomla! concepts
Opensource
Freedom
Choice
Control
Fun
Ease of use
End User
Administrator
Developer
Designers
The Joomla! project
Content Management
Keep is small and simple
Be flexible and agile
Designed to be extendible
Use 80/20 rule
Reduce choices Barry Swharts : video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6127548813950043200

Joomla! philosophy
Rock Solid Architecture
Flexibility built on Powerful Framework
Developers Tools
Outstanding User experience
International Recognition (50+ languages)
A great community!
The Joomla! project

The Joomla! project While at time it may appear at times that we do not move fast enough... In a short amount of time we have accomplished a lot! Project history The Joomla! project

The Joomla! project Project history The Joomla! project 01 September 2005 Joomla! is born 15 September 2005 Joomla! 1.0 released 17 September 2005 Joomla! opens the forge 01 January 2006 Joomla! 1.1 announcement 06 February 2006 Joomla! opens developer network 06 March 2006 Joomla! opens extensions site 12 October 2006 Joomla! 1.5 Beta released 27 October 2006 Joomla! releases official user manual 12 December 2006 Joomla! 1.0.12 released 13 March 2007 Joomla! Opens Gforge (JoomlaCode Launch) 05 May 2007 Joomla! 1.5 Beta-2 released 21 July 2007 Joomla! 1.5 RC1 released 01 September 2007 Joomla! 1.5 RC2 released 06 October 2007 Joomla! 1.5 RC3 released 19 December 2007 Joomla! 1.5 RC4 released 14 January 2008 Joomla! 1.0.14 RC released

Joomla! organisation How are we organized?

Joomla! organisation
Coreteam (15 members)
3 project managers (Louis, Shayne, Johan)
7 coordinators (Rob, Shayne, Ole, Robin, Brad and Wilco)
Work groups
5 work groups: infrastructure,development, translations, documentation and foundation
Around 250 members in working groups
Community (you): we lost count...

Joomla! organisation
All members are spread all over the world
Timezone differences
Lingual and cultural bariers
Means of communication:
Forum
Skype (voice, video and chat)
IRC
Mail, mailinglists
Joomla!days, gatherings, events etc.

Can you get involved?
No matter what you think you can do, you can help!
Most of the contributers start in our forum helping others out
But how do I get involved into one of the working groups?
Can we use people?
Community Involvement

Initiatives to get people involved
Pizza, Bugs and Fun (PBF)
Joomla Documentation Camp
Google Summer Of Code
Google Highly Open Participation Contest
Joomla! Bug Squad

Pizza, Bugs and Fun (PBF)
Community driven initiative for fixing bugs
One or more locations people come together
Scan tracker, assign it, fix problem, create patch
Test patch and development team member commits patch
First event:
8 December 2008: New York, San Francisco, Washington DC, Brussels and Vancouver
98 commits, around 100 artifacts solved

Joomla Documentation Camp
First one planned this weekend
http://docs.joomla.org
Locations: Brussels and Vancouver
52 people signed up to help out!

Google Summer Of Code Projects
2006 research based
Siteman (J!Explorer)
Node Based Scheme
Extensive ACL
Package manager
Ajax
2007 pragmatic approach
Usable end-result
Co-collaboration with other OS projects (mootools and eclipse)
2007 Projects
Extending the Nested Sets Model with 'Hardlinked Nested Sets’
Development of Jigg component for Joomla! 1.5
Implementation of mootools in Joomla! 1.5 framework
Email Interface for Publishing
Semantic Web Integration
Geo-component for Joomla!
Eclipse Plugin J!Code
Joomla 1.5 Forum component
General content recommendation component for Joomla

Google Highly Open Participation Contest
Follows on the success of the Google Summer of Code program
For pre-university students, 13 to 18, from all around the world to learn about and contribute to an open source project
Google invited ten projects including Joomla! to help shape the program

Projects participating in GHOP Community Involvement

Joomla! bug Squad
Focusses on scanning tracker and forum
Performs testing
Help out community with problems
Creates patches and applies them to the code-base
Team exists 2 weeks --> 20 members

Joomla! In numbers (general statistics)
162.658 forum users (Jan 15)
9442 registered developers *
1648 registered projects *
2671 extensions ( extensions.joomla.org )
* On joomlacode.org since 10 March 2007 Let’s throw some statistics

www.ohloh.net Let’s throw some statistics

Joomla! branches?
What is a branch?
Planned branches
Joomla! 1.0.x
Joomla! 1.5
Joomla! branches
Joomla! 1.6/7/8 & 2.0?

Joomla! branches?
Joomla! 1.0
Latest stable version 1.0.13
Latest released version 1.0.14 RC: use it if you can, major security fix!
Support timeframe undetermined: at least 12-18 months
Joomla! 1.0.x will stay in maintenance mode
Joomla! branches

Joomla! branches?
Joomla! 1.5
Latest version 1.5 RC 4: use this version if you used previous RC’s!
Support timeframe: until Joomla! 1.6 is out
After release of Joomla! 1.5 it will go into maintenance mode and development of 1.6 will start
When will 1.5 be released?
Code is frozen since 17th of January ;-)
...

Joomla! branches?
Joomla! 1.6...
Call for white papers
Selection of top-x white papers
Regular development cycle: Alpha, Beta, RC, Stable
Timetable...?
Joomla! 2.0
Refactory to PHP 5.2+
Remove PHP 4 Legacy and 1.0.x backward compatability
Framework level improvements like NBS, Database abstraction, new Database scheme etc.
Joomla! branches

Questions?

http://opensourcecommunity.org	31
http://www.techgig.com	7
http://www.netvibes.com	2
http://www.joomladay.it	2
http://www.telejet-garrotxa.cat	2
http://www.slideshare.net	1
http://www.o53.net	1
http://www.mvyx.com	1
http://www.geoffblake.com	1
http://livebackgammon.info	1
http://www.linkedin.com	1

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