Show Notes June 9, 2010 JoomStew Radio with Guests Johan Janssens

Guests

Johan Janssens, chief architect of Joomla! 1.5, founder of Joomla!, currently working on nooku, an framework that makes it very easy to build great Joomla! Extensions that work on 1.5, 1.6, and even an example of using it in WordPress. http://twitter.com/johanjanssens

The Beat Goes On

Future Shows

June 16th - Buzz – Brian Teeman, Mitch Pirtle, and Pete Russell

http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=23&month=6&year=2010&hour=20&min=00&sec=0&p1=0

Measuring Community June 23 – Wilco Jansen

http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=23&month=6&year=2010&hour=20&min=00&sec=0&p1=0

Selenium IDE Webinar for the Joomla Bug Squad

Do not miss this  - Mark Dexter (19:00 UTC time - 1 hour before now tomorrow)

http://www.alltogetherasawhole.org/profiles/blogs/mark-dexter-announces-selenium

http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=6&day=10&year=2010&hour=19&min=0&sec=0&p1=0

What was that about communication?

Angie Radtke

http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1209-what-was-that-about-communication.html

ATAAW Logo Design Contest

The first round of voting is now open for the 22 logo submissions for the All Together As A Whole logo contest. Members of ATAAW should submit their votes before Sunday June 13, 2010.

http://www.alltogetherasawhole.org/profiles/blogs/ataaw-logo-design-contest

Contributor Recognition

Joomla! Community Workgroup May 2010 Report

http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1207-joomla-community-workgroup-may-2010-report.html

Busy Bug Squad Builds Betas

Mark Dexter

http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1202-busy-bug-squad-builds-betas.html

Events

Joomla! Day New England

http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1204-joomladay-new-england.html

50 % women!

Bug Squashing http://www.alltogetherasawhole.org/profiles/blogs/joomla-day-new-england-bug

Paul Delbar one|content Bootcamp

at #delius in Ghent early September : http://www.alltogetherasawhole.org/profiles/blogs/paul-delbar-of-delius-shows

videos

OpenCamp

Dallas Aug 27-29. Come join us! http://openca.mp - Ryan and GnomeontheRun

JandBeyond

Great to see Ryan Ozimek, Steve Burge, and Chris Davenport attending.

Kristoffer Sandven JoomlaBlogger

http://www.joomlablogger.net/blog

CMS Wire http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/jab10-j-and-beyond-event-in-germany-gathers-the-joomla-world-007723.php

http://www.alltogetherasawhole.org/profiles/blogs/joomlablogger-impressions-from

Video: Joomla! community involvement - what can you do to contribute?

http://www.alltogetherasawhole.org/profiles/blogs/joomlablogger-jeremy-wilken

JoomlaCommunity.eu

http://www.joomlacommunity.eu/nieuws/joomla-community/441-een-echt-community-event-terugblik-op-j-and-beyond-2010.html

Zohar Babin

http://www.zoharbabin.com/j-and-beyond-first-day-interviews

Alex Kempkens (@akempkens), Rodrigo Spillere (@rodrigospillere) and Dirceu Pereira Tiegs, Igor Dutra (@igordutra), Chris Williams (@Scampiuk), Jeremy Wilken (@gnomeontherun), Alex and Jack Bremer (@alexbremer, @jackbremer), Brian Teeman (@brianteeman)

http://www.zoharbabin.com/j-and-beyond-second-and-third-day-interviews-recap

Robert Deutz (@rdeutz), Mathias Verraes (@mathiasverraes), Ryan Ozimek (@cozimek), Dinh Viet Hung – Dan Partac (@joomlart), Sarah Watz (@sarahwatz),

Johan Janssens (@johanjanssens), Nick Balestra, Romano Sensibile & Luca Zerboni (@ohanahworld), Fotis Evangelou & Lefteris Kavadas (@joomlaworks)

JandBeyond Pledges

Jack Bremer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9VK5BmOYjI

Joe LeBlanc http://www.alltogetherasawhole.org/profiles/blogs/joe-leblancs-jandbeyond-pledge

Buzz and Media

Twitter http://twitter.com/#search?q=jab10

Flickr http://www.flickr.com/groups/jandbeyond/

Jeremy Wilkens @gnomeontherun video to load http://yfrog.com/5bbndsj

Project and Community Growth

Transition – Community Involvement – Change – Project welcoming the Community – Community following through and helping with the work.

There is room for growth on both the project and community side. That means every single one of us should focus on helping people get involved and being better contributors, ourselves.

Let's get rid of the words 'Official' and 'Non-Official'.

http://twitter.com/mathiasverraes/status/15394808279

JandBeyond – a Joomla! Conference with a Difference

http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1206-jandbeyond.html

Community - If we said we were going to help, then we need to help.

“Drive-by Contributors are expensive, not necessarily financially, but in terms of time. Contributors often require a certain level of (wo)manpower. The community responses to their questions and provides the help, guidance, training, and mentorship needed to get them on their feet. If these contributors receive this assistance and fail to deliver anything of value, they become expensive propositions.”

The project needs to do a much better job of embracing community initiative.

Be careful with the timing of recognition and announcements of events and how that might impact organic community engagement.

Even when you know that a large group of volunteers will only result in a small number of continuing contributors, try to stay positive and assume the best.

Engaging community and rebuilding involvement will take time, and lots of iterations of trying. The more and better we document our processes the easier it will be, as well.

An idea is to have a host/hostess team that might focus on training people and helping them find jobs and encouraging them in. It’s not easy to find the way in.

Be sensitive of announcing official project events when organic community events are underway. Embrace and celebrate the good things that community are doing - and find space in the blogs to make those announcements, as well. "Not invented here" needs to not be used in our project. We are all together, as a whole.

Thoughts About Community

Chapters 4 and 5 – Processes: Simple is Sustainable and Supporting Workflow with Tools

We are seeing a time now in Joomla! evolution where it looks a bit like a Linux community where larger applications, such as Nooku and Tienda, are emerging, and perhaps even distributions not far away in our future. And so, not only is the project itself needing to attract and involve and train and enthuse contributors, but so are these larger software projects. With that in mind, we invited Johan and Rafael to participate in a discussion about process and tools, and how they engage the community with their work and how they also help support the project, as a whole.

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Keeping things in perspective.

Making it easy for new members to join your project is really important, but the process that makes this happen should never overshadow the end goal.

Building a process

Jono talks about the steps to building a process that include setting a goal, identifying target participants, requirements, steps involved, and providing for verification.

Transparency

Everyone who participates in a volunteer community does so because they enjoy it: it is not a job or a requirement. As such, to keep them involved, there needs to be a sense that their input is valuable, and this absolutely applies to their input on how well community processes are working. Ask yourself this question: would you rather live in a community where you can have an Impact on the governing rules, or a community in which other people decide?

Do you agree with Bacon on this point? And, if so, how has this thinking influenced how you work to ensure transparency and engage your community in decision making?

Gates of the Community

Different levels of contributors: drive-by contributors, retention, blockers to contributions, and your “angels”, or long term contributors, the “rock stars.”

What do you see as good ways to build and retain those major contributors?

Feedback

Many community leaders view feedback as a nuisance, and disregard it if it challenges their work and the norms of the community. This is the wrong perspective to take. Feedback instead offers us an incredible opportunity for improvements in how our community functions.

~*~ Tools ~*~

Source Control

Tools

Bug Fixing Workflow

Communication

Recognition

Contributor of the Week

Robert Deutz – leadership in the community with JandBeyond – all the years he held hope and accomplished his goal – so much the better for all of us

Jen Kramer – JoomlaDay New England and strong role model for JoomlaChix

Bad Boy of the Week – Johan Janssens – kiss he stole when awarded Joomla Code Junkie JOscar award

Work for Community

Get involved.

Bug Squad – contact Mark DOT Dexter AT community DOT joomla DOT org

Work with Ron Severdia on CSS Issues http://docs.joomla.org/Joomla_1.6_UI_Development contact Ron DOT Severdia AT joomla DOT org

Joomla Help Screens – contact Chris DOT Davenport AT joomla DOT org http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1174-joomla-16-help-screens-call-for-help.html

Joomla Magazine – contact Paul DOT Orwig AT community DOT Joomla DOT org
http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1172-teaser01jcm.html