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Leadership Highlights from October 2011

Written by Alice Grevet | Tuesday, 01 November 2011 00:00 | Published in 2011 November
Neither horrifying zombies nor creepy computer ghouls could keep the Joomla Leadership from its work in the spooky month of October!

Trail Blazers

Joomla!Day New York hosted the first Joomla Roadmap Meeting to discuss the next major revision of Joomla after the long-term support release 2.5 comes out in a few months. Production Leadership Team (PLT) members joined with developers and interested members of the community in this ground-breaking event, hopefully the first of many!

Leadership Structure Changes

After a month of feedback on JPeople regarding the Leadership Structure Changes blog, a thread has been started on the public leadership email list where the next steps will be discussed. Don't miss the action — hop on your broomstick and check out that thread!

How to Put your Budget Down

It is time to start the 2012 goal setting/budget planning process, and you can follow it here. The hard work that went into the 2011 budget has set a new standard and will ensure even better reporting in 2012. After 3 consecutive years of losses, the past two years have shown huge profit margins, which is something to crow about!

TM Matters

Okay, I'll just say it: trademark policy is a big headache. But it is critically important and comes with substantial financial and legal implications. OSM and the TM team take it very seriously and are trying to make life better for everyone by rethinking our TM policy, in order to improve the processes.

Joomla!Day Roundup

The month of October saw four awesome Joomla!Days, attended by the following leadership members:

  • JDay Israel - Ryan Ozimek (OSM)
  • JDay Italy
  • JDay New York - Mark Dexter, Andy Tarr (PLT)
  • JDay Denmark - Ryan Ozimek (OSM)

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Alice Grevet

Alice Grevet

Joomla! sitebuilder and freelance web designer specializing in non-profits. Co-Lead Editor on the Joomla! Community Magazine, and Secretary on the Board of Open Source Matters.

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    Beat

    Hi Alice,
    Thanks for the update. It's good to see communication improving.

    Regarding TM, it's nice to see finally things moving forward finally. 18 months back there was quite a significant drive from the community to improve the policy (making it more community-friendly), but nothing happened finally as it probably wasn't the right time. It would nevertheless be nice to link to that quite big forum thread to show that the LT is listening to the community input. The LT google groups can't be commented/replied to by the community, and this is an important link missing right there that could be "fixed" here.

    Well, let me know if I can help in that aspect, as I'm interested to contribute to make the TM-policy more friendly towards the joomla community.

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    Alice Grevet

    Thanks for your comment Beat. A text aiming to define a more effective trademark policy is due to be put to the community for feedback this month - so be looking for that. You will be able to comment on it and express your ideas there. Thanks for caring about the TM policy - it is important!