Joomla is an open source content management system (CMS) that is community-driven and maintained by volunteers. It has over 27,000 commits from hundreds of contributors and is used by over 7% of websites. Joomla is flexible, extensible, and easy to use. The speaker discussed Joomla's growth in usage and downloads over time as well as its large ecosystem of users, developers, and third party services. Challenges for Joomla include attracting and retaining contributors while continuing to provide an attractive solution.

1. State of Joomla!
Sarah Watz
President, Open Source Matters, Inc.

2. What is
JOOMLA?
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Joomla! is
a totally community driven project
where all volunteers volunteers
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 web site software 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.

8. Joomla! in numbers

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Joomla! has had 27,708 commits
made by 787 contributors
representing 355,744 lines of code.

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“Joomla is used by 7.0% of all
the websites whose content
management system we know.
This is 3.2% of all websites.“
Source: w3techs.com

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Source: w3techs.com

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300+
Joomla! websites added
every day
Source: w3techs.com

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Joomla 1.x 23.7 %
Joomla 2.x 29.8 %
Joomla 3.x 46.5 %
Source: w3techs.com
Usage Statistics

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Usage Statistics

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75 000 000+
downloads from joomla.org

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2-3 seconds
from joomla.org
every

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7 876
extensions.joomla.org
extend Joomla! with

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65
languages
translated to

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692 000+
forum members

20. Joomla! CMS

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Joomla! 3.x

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Joomla! 4

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Joomla! X

24. Ecosystem
Hosting Companies
Developing Houses
Web Agencys
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

25. As any ecosystem -
Joomla’s ecosystem is fragile
and needs to be nurtured
to sustain and grow.

26. Google Summer of Code

27. Easier to get started
with Joomla!

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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

35. Easier to get started
building your Joomla!
knowledge & career

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certification.joomla.org

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resources.joomla.org

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extensions.joomla.org

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User Groups

40. Challenges

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Keep providing an attractive solution
Find ways to attract and keep Joomlers
Be even more attractive for partners
To keep up this going user base
we need to keep focusing on …

42. Easier to get started
volunteering for Joomla!

43. Joomlers
Volunteers that proudly contribute
to the Joomla! project

44. volunteers.joomla.org

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48. It doesn’t matter who’s ideas,
who’s thoughts, or
who’s features
we end up using…

49. .. we do what’s best, we do
what’s right, we come back to
the heart of Joomla
every time.

50. Write a blog post
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CHALLENGE help get the word out
What was your biggest takeway
from attending the JWC. Share
on social media with the tag
#jwc16 #joomla

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Be somebody who
makes everybody feel
like somebody.