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The October Issue

Written by: Anja de Crom
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The JCM Team is proud to present you the October Issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine.

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Since our previous issue, we're generating the list of articles of the issue through a Joomla module to finally satisfy the request coming from several readers to include links to the published articles directly in the Editor's Introduction. We're going to improve the layout and the graphics over time, but we hope that you'll appreciate the efforts made by the team so far.

This release wouldn't have been possible without the work of'the Community Magazine Team, all the authors and all the people who allowed us to interview them.

Thanks to all those who participated.

The Call for Authors for the Community Magazine is always open, we are eager to receive your articles.

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Contributed to this issue:

Luca Marzo (Co-Editor), Anja de Crom (Co-Editor), Sandra Decoux (Creative Director), Tom van der Laan (Creative Team), Maria Skampoura (Creative Team / Author), Angelika Prox-Dampha (Creative Team / Author), Viviana Menzel (Author), Yann Gomiero (Author), Sergio Iglesias (Author), Herman Peeren (Author), Dan Atrill (Text Editor / Author Guide), Emmanuel Lemor (Author), Sergey Tolkachyov (Author), Ioannis Fytros (Author).

We want to thank also all the developers, leaders and volunteers who dedicated their time to answer our interviews.

About the author

Before I got my current job as Coordinator Communications & Digital, I ran my own company for 25 years. The first 15 years I was a writer / editor / journalist / writing coach. 

In 2009 I started working with Joomla, not knowing anything about webdesign. I joined a JUG in 2012, two months later I was co-organizer :) (and stayed co-organizer for about five years).

I loved working with Joomla so much that I started projects, just to be able to create a website for them. That's when I thought: hey, maybe it's time for a career switch. In 2014 I decided to go pro with Joomla and switch to webdesign instead of writing. 

Volunteer work

I already mentioned the JUG. After that I did a number of other things over the years:

  • Writer: I wrote articles about Joomla in a Dutch webdesigner magazine.
  • Speaker at JUGs and JoomlaDays.
  • Member of the Dutch JoomlaDagen team for three years.
  • Member of the team that organized all three editions of Joostock (a Joomlacamp/unconference event).
  • Editor of the Dutch Joomla web agency brochure, a brochure webdesigners can use to convince their potential clients that Joomla is the right choice for them.

In 2020 I've started contributing to the Joomla Community Magazine, first as an author, and since 2022 I'm Team Leader of the wonderful Joomla Community Magazine Team. 

Why I contribute to Joomla

To many people Joomla is just a tool. But if you look a little closer, you'll notice it's much more than that. It's a living system, raised and nourished by a community of volunteers dedicating their time to make it the best CMS ever. Without volunteers, Joomla wouldn't exist. It's not 'just a product'. Everyone who uses Joomla, can do so because someone, somewhere, contributed to it. I want to give back to the community that keeps Joomla alive.

And, probably needless to say: I love being part of that community. 

Contributing to Joomla by volunteering brought me so much: valuable experience, more knowledge and a better understanding of Joomla and its community, and the opportunity to work together with a crowd of lovely people all over the world.

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Some articles published on the Joomla Community Magazine represent the personal opinion or experience of the Author on the specific topic and might not be aligned to the official position of the Joomla Project

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