1. Overcoming Governance Challenges in the
Joomla project, and why you should care
OR
Helping Joomla to reach its potential
OR
2012: A crossroads for Joomla
2. Joomla's Current Mission Statement:
Our mission is to develop a
flexible platform for online
publishing and
collaboration
3. How are we doing?
2nd most popular FOSS CMS in the world
Approaching 30,000,000 downloads
9,000+ extensions
Support for 60+ languages
Over 500,000 forum members
3 Packt awards in 6 years
~30 JoomlaDays in 2011, 145 JUGs
4. How are we doing?
2011 Water and Stone CMS market share
report:
Adoption: Downloads and usage
decreasing
Third party support: Decreasing
Reputation: Decrease in brand sentiment
and conversion rates, increase in
abandonment
5. Joomla as underdog...
No benevolent dictator to provide clear
vision or resolve issues
No primary business/corporate sponsor
that contributes staff, developers,
financial resources
6. 2012: A Crossroads for Joomla
How can Joomla continue to grow and
remain a FOSS CMS leader?
7. 2012: A Crossroads for Joomla
More than any other single factor, and
more than other leading FOSS CMS, the
Joomla project's future success depends
on our ability to attract and retain a large
and diverse group of skilled volunteer
contributors.
8. Joomla leadership's most important function:
Create and support a culture that will attract
and retain the large and diverse group of
skilled volunteer contributors that our
project's future success depends on.
9. The kind of culture we need to create and support:
Inspiring
Meaningful
Open
Responsive
Respectful
Fun
10. Current Leadership Structure
Community Oversight
Committee
Add OSM members
Remove OSM members
No websites!
Production Leadership Community Leadership Open Source Matters
Team Team
Forums
Finances
Development
Directories
Legal
Documentation
Magazine
Trademark
Translations
JPeople
Communications
Some websites
JUGs
Events
Some websites
Shop
Some websites
11. Challenges with current leadership structure
We currently set LT level goals, but not
project-wide goals
We don't always coordinate well between
teams, and there is no process to address that
There can be a tendency to focus on team
level responsibilities, instead of more complex
project-wide issues
12. 2011 proposed leadership structure changes
Board of Directors
Overall goals and strategy
Oversight for all committees
Committees
Development Directories Events/Groups Finance Community Mgmt.
Sites/Infrastructur Legal/Tradema Communication
Documentation
e rk s
13. Benefits of proposed leadership structure changes
Allow us to set and monitor progress for
bolder, more inspiring project-wide goals
Make it easier for all teams to follow and
support a unified roadmap
Provide a way to address and overcome
inter-team conflicts
Can make room for new leaders
Allow each committee to have a stronger focus
Reduce drama, increase productivity
Simplify contractual issues
14. Current and upcoming steps:
Working group has been formed to study this
issue and present recommendations
Joint leadership summit at JandBeyond
conference in May will consider those
recommendations and hopefully reach a
decision
15. My dream for Joomla
For us to show what can be achieved when a
diverse group of passionate volunteer
contributors from all over the world are fully
empowered and connected for the purpose of
continually innovating, supporting, and sharing
our community powered software.