The State of Joomla!
Robert Jacobi
@robertjacobi
What is
JOOMLA?
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Joomla! is
a totally community driven project
where all people volunteer
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
website tools 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.
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Joomla! in numbers
Joomla! has had 29,000+ commits
made by 780+ contributors
representing 370,000+ lines of code.
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“Joomla is used by 6.8% of all
the websites whose content
management system we know.
This is 3.3% of all websites.“
Source: w3techs.com
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300+
Joomla! websites added
every day
Source: w3techs.com
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Joomla 1.x 19.3 %
Joomla 2.x 24.8 %
Joomla 3.x 55.9 %
Source: w3techs.com
Usage Statistics
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75,000,000+
downloads from joomla.org
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85,000,000+
downloads from joomla.org
Since February
2017!
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2-3 seconds
from joomla.org
every
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7,888
extensions.joomla.org
extend Joomla! with
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68
languages
translated to
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692,000+
forum members
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Joomla! CMS
Joomla! 3.x
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Joomla! 4
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Ecosystem
Hosting Companies
Developing Houses
Web Agencies
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
As any ecosystem -
Joomla’s ecosystem is fragile
and needs to be nurtured
to sustain and grow.
Google Summer of Code (GSOC)
Easier to get started
with Joomla!
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
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Easier to get started
building your Joomla!
knowledge & career
certification.joomla.org
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resources.joomla.org
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extensions.joomla.org
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User Groups
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Challenges
Providing an attractive solution
Find ways to attract and keep Joomlers
Be even more attractive for partners
To keep up this growing user base
we need to keep focusing on …
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Easier to get started
volunteering for Joomla!
Joomlers
Volunteers that proudly contribute
to the Joomla! project
volunteers.joomla.org
volunteers.joomla.org
Michael Babker
Soren Beck Jensen
Sandra Decoux
Rowan Hoskyns
Abrahall
Peter Martin
Yves Hoppe
Joomler!
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Aleksander Kuczek
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Luca Marzo
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Mike Demo
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It doesn’t matter who’s ideas,
who’s thoughts, or
who’s features
we end up using…
.. we do what’s best, we do
what’s right, we come back to
the heart of Joomla
every time.
Write a blog post
CHALLENGE: get the word out
#joomladay #chicago #joomla
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CHALLENGE: JWC 2017
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Be somebody who
makes everybody feel
like somebody.
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JoomlaDay Chicago 2017 Keynote Address

JoomlaDay Chicago 2017 Keynote Address

Editor's Notes

  • #2 How do you all feel? Hooray for Joomla, not the software; but the engineers, designers, integrators, and teams! A brand new, more open, and accessible Joomla is here today! Robert will talk about the new Joomla open to everyone.
  • #4 I hope you had an opportunity to se this happening during Joomla! in Action yesterday.
  • #15 Save the web that Kevin-John taked about before. I think we could save one Joomla! site at a time, migrate, upgrade … These site owners and visitors are worth having the experience of Joomla! 3. Don’t you agree?
  • #16 Huge disclamer. All the big language groups in the world has their own country / language specific website where they download all their Joomla packages. All the install done on hosting though one-click-install. And many uses the same download several times when building websites to clients.
  • #17 Huge disclaimer. All the big language groups in the world has their own country / language specific website where they download all their Joomla packages. All the install done on hosting though one-click-install. And many uses the same download several times when building websites to clients.
  • #18 That means that every 2-3 seconds someone is downloading Joomla from joomla.org.
  • #19 3% increase in just 3 months (from JWC)
  • #22 Loved the direction the product is going.
  • #24 Better Templates (front and back!) Improved Workflow (media manager, image editing) Better Performance
  • #25 The playground!
  • #26 To stay relevant and vibrant as a project we need everyone’s expertise.
  • #28 Google Summer of Code is a program designed to encourage university student participation in open source software development. With 78 applications submitted, final 6 projects was selected. We had mentors for each student to help guide them through the process. Mentors and students have worked hard. Some of the students and mentors are here today. Please stand up. Please help me recognise them.
  • #29 Google Summer of Code is a program designed to encourage university student participation in open source software development. With 78 applications submitted, final 6 projects was selected. We had mentors for each student to help guide them through the process. Mentors and students have worked hard. Some of the students and mentors are here today. Please stand up. Please help me recognise them.
  • #30 The past 4 years on the board and the last two years as the President I have been very supportive of initiatives that has made it easier.
  • #31 A much more attractive main site for Joomla has been launched this year. The personas that Joomla has is now much more taken care of and serviced. Clear call to action.
  • #32 Now you can use the demo longer than before - now it’s available for 3 months - and it’s easy to launch the website when you are ready. We do this in partnership with Siteground.
  • #33 In partnership with Siteground we also offer a Free Site on joomla.com
  • #35 I am so happy that we now provide high quality video training in partnership with OSTraining. It will be a good starting point for new users of Joomla and this will also help season Joomlers! to know best practices and get updated on new features.
  • #36 Our updated showcase site will be a place to get inspired by other websites built on Joomla! Remember to register you websites so we get many great sites to get inspired by.
  • #37 Got questions? Here’s where you find answers. Or you might be able to help out to answer some questions yourself!
  • #39 Today at the world conference we had 18 people taking the exam. 13 passed. That is a passing rate of approx 72%
  • #40 Register your profile in the directory and attract new clients.
  • #41 Build an extension and offer it to a world market on the JED directory.
  • #42 This weekend there has been 3 new user groups created. Today the Vancouver User Group was reactivated on the website. We hope that bringing the world conference to Vancouver has started something really good for the local community.
  • #43  We have been losing market share during some year now. So what can we do better?
  • #44 Keep being bold. And be first. We been doing it before - we are on our way to do it again. To to that we need to attract new community members and more volunteers. We need to be brave to start - launch - fail - optimise - improve - iterate. The keynote that Luke held about Growth Driven Design is definitely something we could be inspired to utilise more in our workflow. Be even more attractive for sponsors and partners. Since that is the only way we have money to spend on our actives like code sprints, events, outreach, trademark, financials etc.
  • #46 If you are not yet contributing to Joomla! we would love to welcome you. We would be more than happy to call more of you a Joomler. Let’s join our efforts making Joomla the best it could be.
  • #47 I you after this weekend got interested to find out more about how to volunteer please visit volunteers.joomla.org to learn more about the teams and find contact info. There are many volunteers present from different parts of the project that you can ask here today.
  • #48 We are in a transition to a new organisation structure. This will make the organisation more democratic and empower us as volunteers to move forward with a purpose.
  • #49 We are in a transition to a new organisation structure. This will make the organisation more democratic and empower us as volunteers to move forward with a purpose.
  • #50 This department oversees all aspects related to the code of all software lead by the organization.
  • #51 This department oversees the management of all accounting processes, including budget, bookkeeping and all legal matters related to the organization.
  • #52 This department handles all matters related to marketing, PR, and communications needed to share information both internally and externally for the organization.
  • #53 This department manages the various events both related to code as well as community for the organization.
  • #54 This department focuses on the various areas required to support the organization’s infrastructure, volunteers, and community.
  • #55 This department’s primary objective is to assist and facilitate the efforts of the various programs established for the community. I.e. Certification ad JET Programs
  • #56 We are in a transition to a new organisation structure. This will make the organisation more democratic and empower us as volunteers to move forward with a purpose.
  • #57 We are in a transition to a new organisation structure. This will make the organisation more democratic and empower us as volunteers to move forward with a purpose.
  • #58 We are in a transition to a new organisation structure. This will make the organisation more democratic and empower us as volunteers to move forward with a purpose.
  • #59 We are in a transition to a new organisation structure. This will make the organisation more democratic and empower us as volunteers to move forward with a purpose.
  • #60 We are in a transition to a new organisation structure. This will make the organisation more democratic and empower us as volunteers to move forward with a purpose.
  • #61 I’m very proud to say that the heart of Joomla is truly the community. We all are the ones that makes it happen. And just to think about that all the volunteers that contributes their time, experience and knowledge does it for free is amazing. I would like to address a thank you to all of you that have been or are volunteering to Joomla. I would go so far that we are all heroes in our lives and in each others lives. We are truly making a difference for so many in the world. We are making it happen!!!!
  • #63  We do what’s best, we do what’s right, we come back to the heart of Joomla every time.
  • #67 Go to the link! Feel free to change and contribute more! Spread the link! We will report at the end of JAB!
  • #68 Go to the link! Feel free to change and contribute more! Spread the link! We will report at the end of JAB!
  • #70 Thank you all for making this event so awesome! Have a safe travel home and continue to be amazing.
  • #71 Thank you all for making this event so awesome! Have a safe travel home and continue to be amazing.