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April

Details: Written by: Luca Marzo; Category: April; Published: 20 April 2020; Hits: 63

Editors Introduction

We are living in a weird period, in which we are obliged to practice “social distancing” and we cannot crowd together to meet or get things done. We saw many local and international events cancelled due to the pandemic emergency. And in this period, everyone spends more time to reflect and re-evaluate the importance of many things that we claimed were “normal” for so long.

In this edition of the Community Magazine, we wanted to put people first, remembering that Joomla exists only thanks to “its people” and we wanted to take a moment to appreciate them and their contributions.

Details: Written by: Chris Keen; Category: April; Published: 20 April 2020; Hits: 62

Radek has been building Joomla extensions for more than ten years and has also given presentations and talks at various local (German and Polish) as well as at international Joomla events.

Details: Written by: Chris Keen; Category: April; Published: 20 April 2020; Hits: 57

After attending the Joomla World Conference at Harvard University in 2013, Brian began volunteering for Joomla. He was involved as a member and then team leader of the Joomla Resources Directory (JRD) until 2019.

Details: Written by: Andrea Gentil; Category: April; Published: 20 April 2020; Hits: 50

By its very nature, the Joomla board and structure is in permanent change - but we can find one constant: Luca Marzo, who is starting his fourth term as Secretary of OSM.

Details: Written by: Anja de Crom; Category: April; Published: 20 April 2020; Hits: 55

Before Marco Dings started his own web agency he had a career in IT. He worked for several large top tier companies and has experience in leading international teams. Marco became actively involved in Joomla when he merged his business into a bigger, full-service UK based web agency that employed several Joomla main contributors.

Details: Written by: Anja de Crom; Category: April; Published: 20 April 2020; Hits: 66

“What Joomla needs now is a strategy for the future which gives us the ability to survive and grow.” That is what Hugh Douglas-Smith stated in his manifesto when he ran for Legal & Finance Department Coordinator on the OSM Board. Hugh has been on the board as Operations DC for the last two years.

Details: Written by: Luca Marzo; Category: April; Published: 20 April 2020; Hits: 63

Christiane is a hidden gem within the Joomla Community. She is actively involved in making Joomla 4 accessible, as a member of the Accessibility Team. She also worked on the new Workflow feature that will be shipped in the new version of Joomla.

Details: Written by: Wilco Alsemgeest; Category: April; Published: 20 April 2020; Hits: 50

Hans is the Assistant Team Leader of the Social Media Team. He’s a real "down to earth" guy from the Netherlands, who doesn't seek and ask for any attention, even sometimes trying to wave it aside, although he deserves it.

Details: Written by: Aris Ntatsis; Category: April; Published: 20 April 2020; Hits: 51

The first time abroad on his own was when we visited a JoomlaDay in England. Joomla rerouted all his life, he loves J! and its community has been actively involved since 1.5, and uses Joomla for all it can be used.