Contributing - Behind the Scenes of the Joomla! Project

By Tessa Mero – October 21st, 2015

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College Instructor

Open Source Contributor

Organizer

Previous Systems Applications Dev

Who Am I?

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• How I Got Involved

• Why Use Joomla!

• About the Community

• The Organization Structure

• Why We Are Here

• Who Can Volunteer?

• Why Contribute to Open Source?

• How to Get Involved?

OVERVIEW

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• Job at Sports Company

Redesigning system applications

Rebuilding in Joomla and custom coding

Joomla classes/conferences

Rest is history

• Had a Vision of being in Leadership

“I want to work my way up to leadership”

My Story

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• Easy to install and set up (assuming you don’t use a crappy host)

Set up a free subdomain and hosting account at cloudaccess.net

Set up a free subdomain/hosting at Joomla.com (with restrictions)

• Lots of documentation especially for building your own extensions

• The community is amazing and very welcoming

• It’s Open Source and Downloaded over 50 MILLION times!

• Over 7,455 extensions on the Joomla Extensions Directory (JED)

• Core Devs Working Hard on New Architecture of Joomla 4

Why Use Joomla?

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• Fork of Mambo CMS in 2005

• Created by a group of 17 people

• Exponentially grew FAST within years of time

• 414 Contributors to Github

Where Did Joomla Come From?

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• 100% Volunteers, no paid staff

• Everyone has a range of skills, from marketers to developers

• Volunteers are from all around the world

• Loves Hugs

• Moving towards transparency

(Team Reports)

• Growing Too Fast

About the Community

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60+ Teams

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Future Org StructureNew Structure

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Forming a New (sub) Team

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Communication Channel

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• The PLT (Production Leadership Team) wants to support Developer related Conferences around the world

• We want people to get familiar with the Joomla brand

• Get Joomla people more involved with dev conferences, especially w/ speaking engagements

• More people using Joomla as a CMS

• One day, more devs will want to volunteer

• At MINUMUM we want people to hear the word Joomla and only think IT ROCKS!!

Why Are We Here?

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• Anyone!

• Are you a:

Writer?

Developer?

Web Designer?

UX Designer?

Support Professional?

Graphic Designer?

Translator?

Collaborator? =) A User? Marketer???

Who Can Volunteer?

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Why Volunteer?

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Community

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Passion

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Sharing Resources

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Recognition

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Career Advancement

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Connect with Joomla! Volunteers

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Looking into the Volunteers Portal

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Joomla! Bug Squad

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Patch Tester Process

• Install Fresh Joomla Site

• Install https://github.com/joomla-extensions/patchtester/releases

-> patchtester.zip -> Install in Fresh Joomla Website

Fetch Data from GitHub!

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Patch Tester Process

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• Attending a User Group

• Organizing a User Group

Ask me for tips!

• Go to the forums –help new users

• Help with Wiki Documentation

• Test Bug Fixes – No coding required!

• Tweet to the community! Example:

I’d love to help out and volunteer. Can anyone guide me? #Joomla@Joomla

How You Can Start Volunteering in Any Community

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• Twitter: @TessaMero Follow me!!! :-D

• Website: http://tessamero.com

• Email: tessa.mero@joomla.org

Thank You!!! Questions?