Victor Drover presented on Joomla, an open source content management system. Joomla is developed by a global community of over 400 volunteers and has over 50 million downloads. It powers over 27 million websites in over 200 countries and is available in 67 languages. The project has annual revenue of $765,000 and is coordinated by Production Leadership, Open Source Matters, and Community Leadership teams who work to develop the code, handle legal/financial matters, and engage the community respectively.

1. Victor Drover!
Open Source Matters!
victor.drover@opensourcematters.org
@VicDrover
Joomla, Open Source and
the Power of Volunteers

2. Open Source
❖ Universal access via free
license to a product's design or
blueprint.
❖ Universal redistribution of that
design or blueprint, including
subsequent improvements to it
by anyone.

3. An open Operating System

4. Apps that run on Linux

5. An open publishing platform
make
product
distribute
for free
no paid
services

6. 477,241 lines of code
http://bit.ly/PwUrYA

8. 427 Contributors
http://bit.ly/1jK8mpz

9. 427 Contributors
Contributors
0
100
200
300
400
500
Joomla Drupal Wordpress

10. $7,000,000
http://bit.ly/1q0gGS8

11. Downloads
http://bit.ly/jcounter

12. Download Rate
MillionsofDownloads
20
30
40
50
June 2011
Sep 2011
Apr 2012
Nov 2012
July 2013
Feb 2014

13. 27,586,011 web sites
%ofSites
0
2
4
6
8
Overall CMS-only
http://bit.ly/1hJ8wgj

14. 3264 Government sites in 204 countries

15. Top countries#ofsites
0
160
320
480
640
800
Italy Spain USA Chile Mongolia

16. Joomlagov.info

17. 67 Languages
http://bit.ly/1hJcndj
#ofLanguages
0
14
28
42
56
70
2.5 3.x

18. Klingon ???

19. $765,100 annual revenue
❖ Advertising revenue!
❖ Affiliate revenue!
❖ Sponsorships!
❖ Events
http://bit.ly/2014jbudget
$0
$160,000
$320,000
$480,000
$640,000
$800,000
2012 2013 2014*

20. ?
❖ 52,607,569 downloads!
❖ 27,586,011 web sites!
❖ $7,000,000 labor!
❖ $765,000 revenue!
❖ 477,241 lines of code!
❖ 427 contributors!
❖ 204 countries!
❖ 67 languages

25. We’ve achieved a lot

26. 178 User groups
http://bit.ly/hdhw73dg

27. #ofEvents
0
10
20
30
40
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
19 Events each year
http://bit.ly/1mPIgEr

28. Event #183 !!!!

29. jandbeyond.org

30. conference.joomla.org

31. Who does all the work for the Project?

32. Organized & Decentralized Teams
PLT
code
OSM
legal, $$
CLT
people

33. Production Leadership Team
❖ All things code!
❖ Coordinating & merging
contributions!
❖ Bug Squad!
❖ Quality assurance!
❖ Coordinating releases!
❖ Setting deadlines!
❖ Code Sprints!
❖ INNOVATION!
❖ CMS / features!
❖ Framework
PLT

34. Production Leadership Team

35. Joomla 3.3 BETA
❖ Lots of new things!
❖ 9:30 AM!
❖ Room 225!
❖ Michael Babker
http://bit.ly/1jMwZ5a

36. Open Source Matters
❖ Legal!
❖ Licensing!
❖ Trademark!
❖ Domains!
❖ Contracts!
❖ Financial!
❖ Budgets + Taxes + Sponsors!
❖ Certification!
❖ Governance
OSM

38. Community Leadership Team
❖ Directories!
❖ Extensions (JED)!
❖ Resources!
❖ User Groups!
❖ Community magazine!
❖ Events!
❖ Forums!
❖ Translations!
❖ Documentation
CLT

39. Extensions

40. Magazine

41. Forum

42. Posts: 2,885,030
Topics: 692,928
Members: 637,493

43. PLT
OSM CLT
PLT
OSM CLT
PLT
OSM CLT
PLT
OSM CLT
User Groups & JED Events
Bugs & Translations Budget

44. Moving together
PLT
OSM CLT

45. Challenges

46. Version support
%ofSites
0
10
20
30
40
50
1.5 2.5 3.x

47. make
product
distribute
for free
offer no
services

48. victor.drover@opensourcematters.org
@VicDrover
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