The Joomla Community Magazine (JCM) cannot exist without Joomla community members freely sharing their knowledge and time.

In part 1 of the 2016 overview, we looked at who reads the JCM and where in the world it is most popular. In part 2 we say Thank You to to those who have been part of the last year.

2016 Overview

2016 was a tough year, with lots of changes (personal, Joomla organizational, and with the JCM website). Helvecio kept things going on the Editorial (content) side, while I was able to finish the migration of the JCM site to Joomla 3.x, with a lot of help from George Wilson. Many old custom plugins and modules complicated the upgrade, but we were able to complete the work that was started in 2015 (by Pete Bui), as well as switch the JCM over to the new Joomla.org responsive template. The content area layouts (custom K2 views) are still work-in-progress. Later in the year, Rowan Hoskyns-Abrahall managed the changeover of the JCM to https.

We did not reach the heights that was achieved by our previous Co-Lead-Editors (Alice & Dianne). There’s been JCM-team discussions earlier in the January, on how we can do better this year. In this month's JCM edition, Helvicio mentions one of the changes we have introduced, and he share more plans in the March edition.

JCM editions published

There were 11 English (including international articles) editions of the JCM, and 10 of the Spanish edition, that included 129 English & other international-language articles, and 72 articles in Spanish.

Joomla Community Magazine Authors & Translators in 2016

These are the 43 Joomla volunteers who contributed articles (and translation) to the JCM (English & International) that were published during 2016:

Alex Smirnov, Ana Barcellos, Anibal Sanchez, Ariadne Pinheiro, astrid, Brian Peat, Brian Teeman, Carlos Cámara, Cliff Pfeifer, Daniel Dubois, David, Dom Cassone, Donato Matturro, Gilles Gagnon, Helvecio da Silva, Jacques Rentzke, Jennifer Gress, João Reys Santos, John Hooley, John Rampton, Karin Déchamps, Leila Saghari, Marie-Louise Berthe, Martijn Boomsma, Matthew Lenning, Mike "Demo" Demopoulos, Mohamed Karam, Nikita Dhiman, Ole Bang Ottosen, Parth Lawate, Parvez Akther, Prital Patel, Radek Suski, Ruchika Nagarkar, Ruchiranga Wickramasinghe, Sam Suresh, Shubham Rajput, Soren Beck Jensen, Stéphanie Calvin, Tanya Austin, Tessa Mero, Ufuk Avcu, William David Edwards

Spanish Edition contributors in 2016

21 Joomla volunteers contributed to the Spanish edition:

Agustin C Izquierdo M, Alejandro Pascoli, Andrea Kekan, Angel García Zinsel, Anibal Sanchez, Carlos Cámara, Carlos Olivares Pérez, Carlos Rodriguez, Esteban Turcios, Gonzalo Suez, Gretel, Guillermo Bravo, Leo Soto, Leonel Canton, Lulú Garibay, Marianela Queme, Oscar Ortiz, René Blas, Valentín García, Viviana Menzel, Xochilt Betanzos May

Thank you!

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the Joomla Community Magazine during 2016 (and of course all the previous contributors too)

Most popular articles

Next month, in the final part of the 2016 overview, I will look at which type of articles were the most popular.

In conclusion

I hope you enjoy the February issue of the Joomla Community Magazine, and that you will consider also becoming part of the JCM team as Author or Translator, or assisting in the team. If you are interested, please email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Jacques Rentzke
Co-Lead Editor
On behalf of the JCM Team