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Supporting efforts to bring about a single voice to benefit the greater Joomla community.
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ATAAW's First International Conference? 2 Replies
"When", "Where", "How", "Why" (Why not) ? Are we headed that way? Any thought!?:)
Started by Manoel J. Silva. Last reply by Amy Stephen Feb 25.
CMS Wire Looking for a little Joomla! Love 5 Replies
There's a blog post from Amy called Alert: What's Coming for Open Source CMS about Dee-Ann LeBlanc 's column that she does monthly to report on different CMS projects and upcoming news, events and re…
Tagged: news, wire, cms, joomla
Started by Robert Vining. Last reply by Robert Vining Jan 29.
JUGs and the Joomla! Community 10 Replies
As a member of the Joomla! Community I've had the initially difficult experience of seeking info about starting a JUG in the appropriate place, the joomla.org websites, and found little, if any.Being…
Started by Manoel J. Silva. Last reply by Paul Orwig Jan 26.
German government warns against using MS Explorer 1 Reply
The German government has warned web users to find an alternative browser to Internet Explorer to protect security. The warning from the Federal Office for Information Security comes after Microsoft…
Started by Leo Lammerink. Last reply by Leo Lammerink Jan 18.
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Comment by Amy Stephen on October 7, 2009 at 10:53pm
- Definitely interested in helping out here.
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Comment by Allan Walker on October 8, 2009 at 3:26am - God loves Joomla! (is that evangelistic enough?)
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- lol! Yes, that should do.
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Comment by Allan Walker on October 8, 2009 at 9:57am
- Gods love Joomla!
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Comment by Allan Walker on October 8, 2009 at 9:57am
- Joomla! is God!
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- Good to see we are flexible! lol
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Maybe our group name is wrong - we can change that, too. In fact, that might kick off a good discussion.
I've not quite understood the role of "PR" or "Marketing" with a free software community. Transparency flies in the face of most Public Relations principles and free software communities thrive on it. Marketing is also a bit of an odd fit since our principle product is free (as in beer.) Strengthening the ecosystem is a good goal.
Evangelism has that religious aspect that we can certainly do without - unless we are singing the praises of community involvement and making the business case clear for participation and collaboration.
It's the stories like Rene shared in his blog post Amazing what you can build in 4 weeks that we need to make more visible. For me, the goal isn't really to get more users, but rather to get more people like Rene involved who can then contribute back to the others and give us all more to use in our work.
So, what's a good word for that? I'm not sure I know.
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Comment by Rene Kreijveld on October 8, 2009 at 10:19am
- The power of Joomla
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Comment by Allan Walker on October 8, 2009 at 10:20am
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Hi Amy, I agree with you, at my first glance this morning I had to question what group you had added me to!
Agree with the terminology Marketing, and the closest word I can think of is "Promotional Activity" that might be suitable.
Anyhow, at least we are talking about it!
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- Allan - I think (?) as an Administrator, you can change that name, so, once you get an agreement or feel from everyone as to what that should be, I say go for it. This is the fun stuff, to me. Sharing the cool stuff folks have accomplished.
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