May 19, 2010 JoomStew Radio Show – Planning Your Community
Looks to be another great show lining up for this week! Here's just some of the topics we will cover:
- Planning Your Community - Chapter 2 from The Art of Community by Jono Bacon
- Joomla 1.6 Beta 1 Released! - We take a quick look at the first Beta from Joomla! in over a year.
- ATAAW Call to Action - This has already been a huge success with over 46 community members signing up to help the bug stomping initiative to move Joomla! Forward.
- Special Guest Nicholas Dionysopoulos from Akeeba Backup - We talk to Nicholas and find out what his thoughts are on the new found energy flowing around the project from a 3rd Party Devs perspective.
- Bug Stomping 101 - The first in a series of tutorials and videos on how to get involved with the Joomla Bug Squad from the admins of ATAAW.
- Interview with Johan Janssens and Shayne Bartlett of Nooku Framework fame and the creator of Joomla! 1.5. We discuss some of the topics covered in this weeks chapter and ask a few other fun questions... good time for sure from those guys.
An Urgent Call to Community Action
An Urgent Call to Community Action
For everyone who has read the latest Joomla! Developer Working Group notes, there is one thing which instantly became apparent: Joomla! is like a patient on life support.
Let me explain this as best as I can. The last major release of Joomla! was 1.5, made over two years ago. The code base is starting to show its age. There is an immediate need for a new release if Joomla! is not to lose anymore traction. However, there is a shortage of developers who work on the Joomla! 1.6 code base, in order to bring it out of the door any time soon.
How does this affect us? We are all professionals working with Joomla!, building Joomla! sites, developing Joomla! extensions, providing Joomla! training and support or creating Joomla! templates. Like it or not, our core business revolves around the CMS. Bluntly put, if Joomla! becomes irrelevant in the global web market, we become obsolete. Having Joomla! around for a long time to come is in our best interest. Even more, it is absolutely essential to our very existence.
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