Community Magazine

The JCM Team is proud to present you the January Issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine, the very first edition of 2025. Check out what this issue has to offer! 

Coming up: Joomla's legendary Pizza, Bugs & Fun event. This is your chance to contribute directly to Joomla, have fun and enjoy a free pizza all at the same time! PBF is THE Global Joomla Event where coders and non-technies unite to make Joomla 5.3 our best Joomla ever. Block February 22, 2025 in your schedule, host a location if you can, bring your Joomla friends together and smash those bugs! 

Dear people of the Joomniverse, this is your chance to help shape Joomla’s future. You guessed it: it’s election time! Read more if you want to know which board positions are up for election and what it takes to be part of Joomla’s leadership! 

The JCM Team is proud to present you the December Issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine, the last edition of 2024. 

Haven’t migrated your Joomla 3 website(s) because it uses J2Store and you’re not sure what will happen? Dreading the moment that J2Store pulls the plug and you would need to have that uncomfortable client discussion about moving to a new ecommerce solution? Fear no longer: J2Store will be continued! Olivier Buisard and Adam Melcher are working on it as we speak, and new versions have been released already. Read all about The Fork, The Developers and The Plans!

The JCM Team is proud to present you the October Issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine.

Over the years, Joomla has participated a number of times in Google Summer of Code, an initiative that empowers students to learn a lot about software development by contributing to open source projects. GSoC has shown us more than once how valuable students can be for Joomla. So what would be more logical than creating our own breeding ground? JCM interviews Philip Walton, the man with the plan. Read all about the brand new Joomla Academy!

Wait - what? A content management system changing lives? Surely that can’t be a thing? Well, turns out it is. Like every other free and open source software, Joomla makes it possible for millions of people worldwide to change their life for the better. So: free, yes, but priceless in what it brings to us. JCM asked 19 people just one simple question: how did Joomla change your life? Read their inspiring stories!

I assume we all make assumptions ?, and often there’s no harm in this at all. But when it comes to written communication, which happens a lot in our community (think GitHub and Mattermost) things can easily go pear shaped when assumptions are made. Assumptions going rogue can lead to anger, sleepless nights, teams falling apart, volunteers rage quitting, work not being done and a ruined reputation (for the volunteer(s) involved and for Joomla). How does this happen, and how can we prevent it from happening?

You’ve probably heard of Mastodon, the open source alternative to X. Mastodon consists of thousands of independent servers, all together these servers form a social network Big Tech has nothing to do with. Open Source! That’s right up our alley, so of course Joomla has its own Mastodon server, joomla.social. JCM interviews Harald Leithner, who played a big part in making this happen.