Community Magazine

If you spend some time around the web, social media and Joomla, you will most likely at some point hunt around a couple of Facebook Groups in/around the topic of Joomla! and if you do, inevitably (or at least for your sake I hope so) you will come across a group called: Website Design Company Owners - using Joomla! or possibly a mention of the Small Business JUG (more on that later)... that is how I came across the kind, humble and always seen smiling Joomler that is Robin Clapp.

Students looking for an opportunity to contribute to open source development and work with the best on a great content management system: this article’s for you. People who know their way around Joomla’s code and want to share their knowledge and help shape Joomla’s future: this article is for you. Read all about the Joomla Academy coming to life!

For years Luca Marzo has been the memory, or even the one-person encyclopedia of Joomla. He served eight times as Secretary of the Board of Open Source Matters, and during those years, Luca came to be Joomla’s very own Google equivalent for everyone, regardless of what you’d need to know: “Ask Luca”. And now this has come to an end. Time to give Luca a proper thank you!

There have been many people involved in Joomla over the past 20 years; some build websites for clients, some help for a time by promoting Joomla, some others contribute their time to a Joomla! Team, some build an extension, and others write code to fix, or improve a functionality in Joomla!... and then, some are all-rounders: they do most if not all of the above...

You’ve probably heard or read it more than once: Joomla needs volunteers. Without people, new releases take longer and have less exciting features, documentation remains incomplete and bugs take forever to get fixed. But who do we need, and what would they be doing? 

Happy New Year 2025, dear Joomla community!

As we step into this new year, we want to take a moment to celebrate everything that makes Joomla so special: you, the members of this caring and passionate community. 2025 is a significant year, marking 20 years of Joomla, 20 years of innovation, collaboration, and connection.

JDayUSA 2025, the premier annual Joomla! Conference in the USA returns this April 2025, to Washington, DC.  JDayUSA brings together visionaries, Joomla enthusiasts, and leaders for a transformative exploration of the latest trends in Joomla. And no matter where you live, you can be part of it!

Having been around the JoomlaSphere in some capacity or another for years, what keeps me around and coming back are the wonderful and super helpful people that I have encountered over the years... some stay, some go, some comeback and some don't but they are collectively the pillars of the Joomla! project no matter in what way they participate, or contribute...

Angelika Prox Dampha has volunteered to take on the coordination of the outreach department, and she has been elected for 1 year in this position. Let's find out how she sees this mission and what she's doing to raise awareness of our magnificent CMS among even more Joomlers.

I first came across the term “open source” about 20 years ago and through various projects I found communities that supported and contributed to software that was freely available under various licences. Joomla is licenced as open source and it in turn sits on open source software including PHP, MySQL / MariaDB, the webserver software whether it’s Apache, NGINX and the server itself on a version of Linux (or Windows, which is not open source) All of this relies on contributors to add functionality, test changes, provide support through forums, repositories and documentation.