contributing - behind the scenes of the joomla! project
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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: [email protected]
Thank You!!! Questions?