This Year We Celebrate Together 20years of Open Source Achievements
It is Joomla’s 20th Birthday, and I am utterly honoured to serve as Joomla’s President at this pivotal moment in our history. For this reason, I would like to express my enthusiasm for everything we have accomplished and share my optimism for the decades yet to come. With this in mind, let’s take a look back together to see how much we have achieved in these twenty years.
Great Scott! It's August 17th, 2025, and Joomla is turning 20! Time to fire up the DeLorean and take a wild ride through the spacetime continuum of open-source history…
With all the celebrations and birthday wishes going on for Joomla's 20th birthday, we thought it would be a good idea to dive into JCM’s history and come up with articles we love, or that we refer to again and again. This is JCM’s Staff Pick of memorable, beautiful, or just super practical articles!
You may not always realise it, but Joomla is a living CMS that is being developed, maintained and marketed by many volunteers worldwide. To make this work, a global project like ours needs structure, coordination, and organisation. How does Joomla do that? And who’s in charge of it all?
What’s going on with our Joomla User Groups? A whole lot of community, creativity, and collaboration!
Joomla User Groups (JUGs) are more than just meetups - they’re gatherings where people who share a passion for Joomla come together to exchange ideas, learn new skills, and celebrate one of the world’s most flexible CMS platforms. Every meeting is an opportunity to connect with others who understand the joy (and sometimes the challenge!) of building with Joomla.
In a world shaped by digital experiences, Joomla is more than just software. It is a movement rooted in collaboration, community, and a shared responsibility to create a better web.
In today’s digital world, community means more than just a group of people. It is about connection, support, and shared goals. Joomla, the open-source content management system (CMS), shows us how technology can bring people together in meaningful and productive ways. It is more than a platform; it is a living community. Here is what Joomla can teach us about building strong digital spaces.
Next month marks the 20th anniversary of Joomla's birth. Time to celebrate! There will no doubt be official festivities, but that doesn't mean you can't have your own celebration. Need inspiration? JCM got your back: check out this list of twenty ways to celebrate this unbelievable, wonderful milestone!
What do you do when your baby turns 20? Celebrate! That's what Brian Teeman, one of Joomla's founders, had in mind when he created Spread the Joomla Love, a website celebrating 20 years of Joomla. JCM interviews him: about the site, the community, what it means to be part of something bigger, and what spreading the Joomla love is about.
There’s a unique kind of joy, quiet, yet deeply satisfying, that comes when I stumble across a website on my digital wanderings and instantly recognise the fingerprints of Joomla beneath the surface.
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