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Open Source Matters appoints Acting Treasurer

13.08.10

In an effort to maintain the Board's effectiveness during its search for a new Treasurer, the Board of Open Source Matters, Inc. (OSM), on the 10th of August 2010, appointed Steve Burge as Acting Treasurer of the organization, for a period ending no later than November 1, 2010 or until a new Treasurer has been elected, appointed or qualified, whichever comes first.

The Acting Treasurer shall have all the abilities and privileges of the Treasurer, but is only expected to provide his services in a limited role during this interim period.

The OSM board wishes to express thanks to Steve for assisting in this important role.

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 So we're now about one week into the stable cycle for Joomla! 1.6 and it seems that the biggest question that is on people's minds is upgrading/migration. There is a great deal of interest from people who want to keep their existing sites, but who also want to try out the latest and greatest features that Joomla! 1.6 has to offer.

When the Production Leadership Team met in San Francisco last September, the release of Joomla! 1.6 was one of the big topics we had to grapple with.  We had made good progress already, but there was still a good amount of work to be done.

Given the situation we found ourselves in, together with the fact that there was already a community member (Matias Aguirre) who was working on a migration tool, we decided that it was better to support the effort already in progress than to spend time duplicating what was already in progress.

So, the bottom line is this:

• Migration to Joomla! 1.6 - We recommend people interested in migrating to use Matias Aguirre's jUpgrade extension.  Testing and feedback from the community will play an important role in perfecting this extension.
• Migration to the July 2011 release - We are planning to implement a site importer in this release that will allow you to import your data from either Joomla! 1.5 or Joomla! 1.6.
• As per the Development Strategy, we intend to manage change much more carefully moving forward. This, combined with our shortened release cycle means that upgrades and migrations will go a lot smoother. 
• Joomla! 1.5 is a Long Term Support (LTS) release. This means that it will be supported for approximately 15 more months. That makes the estimated date for End of Life of Joomla! 1.5 to be April 11, 2012.
• The next LTS release will take place in January of 2012.

Joomla! 1.6 not only marks the introduction of major features that people have been waiting for (granular access control, unlimited category depth), but also the shift to a new development strategy that will enable us to release continual updates on a regular basis while making the upgrade process as painless as possible.

About 6 weeks ago Brad (S&I) posted a call for volunteers on the Joomla! homepage. We, from S&I, received quite a number of applications and there were very suitable applicants among them. Our goal, to get two new webmasters for the community.joomla.org site, improving site maintenance in overall.

I'm very pleased to announce that this call for volunteers worked out great. We can now introduce to you Airton Torres and Paul Orwig as the new webmasters. Both have already jumped in with enthusiasm, performing their new tasks as webmasters. Two partial quotes from there biography:

Paul has wanted to become more involved with supporting Joomla! as a direct result of how much both the software and the community have helped him and in turn the users of websites he has developed. He also has wanted to follow the great example which has been set by so many others who have freely given of their time to make Joomla! such a successful open source CMS.

Airton started developing small personal websites in 2005 while learning HTML and CSS. When his older brother asked him, in 2007, to create a web site for a Soar Flight Club he was a member of, Airton started looking for a CMS and found Joomla. After setting the web site up, he started to use the community forums to get help and was soon giving back to the community, sharing the little knowledge he had gathered so far.

If you as a community member have any ideas, question, or for example want to blog on the community site just post a request on the S&I forum and it will be picked up from there.

You are invited to join a meeting to help plan the Joomla 3.x roadmap, just prior to Joomla Day New York City.

Google Goals. Love 'em, use 'em, make business decisions based on them.

If you didn't know what a "Google goal" is, its a feature of Google Analytics. It allows you to set up a specific and discrete goal for something on your website. Examples might be:

Making a purchase
Downloading a white paper
Filling out a contact form
Downloading a file

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I have previously blogged about online reputational management, but a more recent event came my way today, and I thought it was interesting to see the effects over a longer term, and the dismal response from the company involved.

Last year United Airlines hit the press about breaking somebody's guitar.

Not such huge news probably, United has lots of passengers, and probably damages lots of bags, but this guitar belonged to a singer who made a song and video about his trials.

The result was a MASSIVE fallout for United, with the video on YouTube getting millions of hits, and the story even making CNN.

What truly amazes me is when I search for "United Breaks Guitars" on Google, there are hundreds of results about this story, but nothing I can see from United.

Heck, there is even a Facebook and Wiki page about it now!

Drupal extensions, on the whole, tend to have higher quality coding than Joomla ones... Did I just say that? Me? Mr "every website is a nail" Joomla?* Yup

As a new element of the planning and budget process, each Joomla! leadership team (Production Leadership Team, Community Leadership Team, and Open Source Matters) has set major goals for 2011. This goal setting effort has the following benefits:

• Allows our project’s budget to be a more effective tool for supporting the project's planned priorities for the upcoming year.
• Allows each leadership team to better understand what the other leadership teams are planning to work on, which will improve inter-team collaboration and support.
• Allows the community to be aware of goals and priorities for the upcoming year, which will improve transparency and openness and enable increased support and volunteer contributions.
• Will make it easier to bring in more sponsorship contributions, due to prospective sponsors having a better understanding about what initiatives their contributions will be supporting.

The major 2011 goals for each Joomla! leadership team are listed below. The goals are all numbered for reference purposes (but not as an indication of priority). A bullet list of some tasks that are planned to be worked on in support of these goals during the course of the year are listed below each goal.

The Joomla! project is also pleased to publish its final 2011 budget.

2011 Production Leadership Team goals

PLT Goal #1: Develop four iterations of the Joomla Platform project.

• Develop Joomla Platform 11.1. Target release date is 10 April 2011.
• Develop Joomla Platform 11.2. Target release date is 10 July 2011.
• Develop Joomla Platform 11.3. Target release date is 10 October 2011.
• Develop Joomla Platform 11.4. Target release date is 10 January 2012.

PLT Goal #2: Develop two iterations of the Joomla CMS project

• Develop "Bowerbird". Target release date is 10 July 2011.
• Complete development of com_localise component.
• Complete development of Joomla-MediaWiki importer to support localised documentation.
• Develop the next CMS release. Target release date is 10 January 2012.

PLT Goal #3: Release updates to the current LTS release (Joomla 1.5) as required

• Releases to be made until 3 months after GA of the next LTS. Number, timing and nature of these releases will depend on circumstances.

PLT Goal #4: Outreach and promotion of Joomla to a technical audience.

• Promotion of Joomla at technical conferences and events, particularly in respect of the Joomla Platform.
• Outreach to new developers under a Joomla Student Outreach Program (JSOP).

2011 Community Leadership Team goals

CLT Goal #1: Communication/Interaction with the Community

• More consistency in meetings and publishing of meeting notes/minutes
• Increase CLT membership to ease individual workload as well as broaden representation within leadership and public facing (the community) Task: Assign a member to join the communications team with OSM and PLT
• Volunteer forms for each area of the CWG (JRD, JED, People, JCM, Forum)
• Volunteer recognition program: rewards, public mentions, badges
• More updates to the CWG channels (google group, people site, blogs) about things happening within the working group

CLT Goal #2: Joomla.org site maintenance, usability, effectiveness and improvements

• New joomla.org family site design: volunteer committee run design
• Phased upgrade to 1.6 (and beyond)
• Enhanced Directory Listings
• Single sign on/auto sign on
• Evaluate possible forum software alternatives such as Kunena
• Integrate User Notes for directory and people sites
• Website upkeep - eg. security, third party upgrades, recovery in the event of compromise

CLT Goal #3: Active participation in live events

• Have more CWG attendance at Joomla events (team members)
• More representation of CWG leadership at events
• Joint Leadership Summit
• Video and live steaming of events

2011 Open Source Matters Goals

OSM Goal #1: Increase revenue from sponsorships, shop, and website monetization opportunities

• a) Switch the shop over to spreadshirt.com b) create new souvenirs (key ring , Mug, etc...)
• Brainstorm & update sponsor opportunities/pages
• Increase publicity of new sponsors and sponsor opportunities
• Increase Google Ads revenue using prime locations
• Brainstorm & implement Joomla hosting page
• Try to add international team members to improve international sponsors.

OSM Goal #2: Solidify/stabilize the Trademark team

• Confirm (Acting) Trademark Team leader
• Document Trademark-application processes
• Document and simplify Trademark rules
• Recruit new Trademark Team members & involve more board members
• Implement new Ticketing software to better manage submissions and communications
• Use ProjectFork software to manage above internal tasks
• Clarify Trademark priorities
• Try to add international team members to translate process documents and follow up with international issues.

OSM Goal #3: Establish Joomla supporters club

• Brainstorm details
• Create requirements
• Fix firm dates for going live
• Confirm who is going to develop & costs
• Ongoing publicity & monthly promotions
• Ask for help to translate information to different languages.

OSM Goal #4: Simplification and documentation of our processes

• Document Treasurer responsibilities and processes (for normal duties as well as project-wide processes such as budget/planning, funding requests, and contractor engagements), and add to the Wiki
• Document processes for Events and add to the Wiki
• Document trademark processes and add to Wiki
• Organizing of OSM organizational documents
• Document travel process for leadership team members (Orbitz, etc.)
• Identify repository for international documentation.

OSM Goal #5: Improve support for Joomla events

• Build an events team
• Finding a long run strategy for events
• Defining the target groups for different event types
• Establish Joomla world conference
• Documentation sprints and developer conferences
• Create translations for documentation.

OSM Goal #6: Improve PR/Promotion efforts to raise positive global awareness about value of Joomla

• Raise awareness of Sponsorships
• Publicise Supporters Club
• Translate documents.

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There are still a ton of sites out there running Joomla 1.0x and though the new 1.5x platform's been out for some months, many web developers [like you? :) ] are a little daunted by the prospect of moving their old sites over.

Well, like anything, its best to start with some form of roadmap; make a list of what needs to move over and plan your approach by weighting the tasks you think will be most strenuous along a timeline you can deal with.

Migration is actually pretty simple if you consider that your Joomla site basically is just made up of:

1. Category-structures/Articles/Menus/Modules
2. A template/theme
3. Installed 3rd party Extensions (and their data)

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The following draft text has been drawn up in order to clarify and further define the nomination and election process to OSM board positions. We invite you to submit your feedback via the Joomla! People site link at the bottom. Thank you! 

Elections: Two calendar periods are generally planned for elections each year: April and October. Exceptions can be made if the board vitally needs specific skills (for example, if the Treasurer leaves).

Number of Board members: The recommended number of board members to carry out the responsibilities of OSM is 13. This number may fluctuate up to 15 or down to 11.

Term Limits: All future board appointments will be for one 2-year period with exceptions possible if the board vitally needs specific skills (Treasurer, Legal Council).

Selection Criteria:

• Community: nominees should have a strong track record of successfully collaborating with, enabling others, and earning the respect of the Joomla! community.
• Character: nominees should have demonstrated integrity, with a history of acting honestly, fairly and openly when in leadership roles.
• Experience and Expertise: nominees being proposed for specific roles should have strong experience and expertise in those areas.
• Success: nominees should be able to point to a history of success and leaving previous roles in a better state than when they arrived.
• Diversity: our goal is to work toward, and honor gender and cultural diversity. We are committed to seeking nominations from all talented and dedicated members of our international Joomla! community.

Election Procedure:

• Public nominations open on the 1st of the month and close on the 14th. Nominations must be made with the agreement of the nominee.
• The OSM board examines the candidates and suggests names to the Community Oversight Committee (COC) before the end of the month.
• The COC approval takes 10 business days to approve or reject the names.
• OSM contacts the successful and unsuccessful nominees. 

Click here for discussion and feedback on the Joomla! People site.

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