Alert: What's Coming for Open Source CMS
Dee-Ann LeBlanc is a writer who covers Content Management Systems for CMS Wire. One item Dee-Ann is responsible for is a monthly piece that highlights "what's coming up" for participating CMS projects during the next month. Initially, this is something I helped with, and then Robin took over before leaving. Unfortunately, the role has not been refilled and Dee-Ann ask me for who to talk to, recently, so Joomla! is back in the story. I recommended she contact the community team but Dee-Ann doesn't have time to sort through all of our information, she needs someone to do that for her. So, we need a volunteer.
The mission: A single person or small team willing to look through the mounds of information sources about Joomla! and pull together a short and nice write-up each month. Good time to advertise upcoming events, Joomla User Group info, snippets of what's going on with development and documentation, releases, blog information, even major releases by some of the bigger third party extensions or something you saw on Joomla! Connect. Something that shows how great and active this community is and what is happening in the coming month. Write it up, wrap it with an attractive ribbon, and send it on to Dee-Ann LeBlanc. She's a great person to work with, you'll like her very much.
This is one of the few times we have the opportunity to "tell the media what to say about us." February's issue has reports from Acquia, Alfresco, dotCMS, DotNetNuke, Drupal, eZ Systems, KnowledgeTree, Magnolia, mojoPortal, Nuxeo, ocProducts, Plone, Sense/Net (who?), SilverStripe, Squiz, Umbraco, WordPress and XOOPS.
So - our project - our job - who wants to help? If interested, please speak up and I'll help you get connected with Dee-Ann so we can get this going again. Maybe it could end up connecting with the Magazine effort, somehow, I don't know, but step one is finding volunteers. How about you? Perfect opportunity for community to step up and take on important PR work for the project.
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Comment by Dee-Ann LeBlanc on January 28, 2010 at 6:17pm -
Actually it's easier than that. You don't have to send me something worthy of publication. I just need at minimum links and pointers to the really pertinent things Joomla did in the last month and is doing for the next. The problem is that often this information is scattered over tons of sites and forums and there are a LOT of open source CMS's. So working together is very helpful.
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Comment by Amy Stephen on January 28, 2010 at 6:18pm
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Awesome - and there she is, folks! Told you you'd like her! :)
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Comment by Dee-Ann LeBlanc on January 28, 2010 at 6:23pm
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I'm happy for a chance to talk directly to people just as much as I want them to talk directly to me. :)
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Comment by Robert Vining on January 28, 2010 at 6:26pm -
Hi Dee-Ann welcome to our little hang-out! This sounds like a neat opportunity! I have a question though and since your handy I will ask you here.
Are you looking for new 'Core' Joomla info, or also looking at info on the latest 3rd party add-ons that are making a big splash on the scene as well?
I guess I could answer myself by reading some of your archives!
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Comment by Dee-Ann LeBlanc on January 28, 2010 at 6:30pm
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If you go to http://www.cmswire.com/news/topic/foss+updates you'll see the monthly updates. Sometimes I mention 3rd party add-ons and sometimes I don't, it depends on the context, what the add-on is, and how much material I have for that project at the time. I would say that in general I focus on the core CMS. Take a look and hopefully there will be some kind of logical pattern there. :)
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It's really important this be a project perspective, not a self-promotion thing. That might be what Robert is correctly reinforcing.
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Comment by Robert Vining on January 28, 2010 at 7:02pm
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I followed Amy's link to your February report and have a pretty good idea of what your after.
Just from memory over the last month I know that:
Joomla developers are working directly with Mootools developers to update the current Joomla 1.5 branch to Mootools 1.2
link to more info: http://www.alltogetherasawhole.org/profiles/blogs/ian-maclennan-moo...
Joomla has OSM Board elections coming up in February and has about 56 submissions. It's the first time the CoC has called out to the open community for submission suggestions:
http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1107-thank-you-for-the-...
The Joomla Community has pulled together to get the Joomla Community Magazine back in circulation very soon with a group of approximately 40 people working for the past 4 months to resurrect it. It was approved by Joomla leadership just a few weeks ago and the new forum section was just opened up at Joomla.org for more information on it.
http://forum.joomla.org/viewforum.php?f=573
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Comment by Jeremy Wilken on January 28, 2010 at 7:21pm -
I would be interested in helping out with this, if help is still needed. I've got plenty going on, but would be willing to take some extra time out to regularly do this. If someone else wants to step up, that is fine, or if you want to bounce things off one another - thats cool tool.
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Comment by Dee-Ann LeBlanc on January 28, 2010 at 7:24pm
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We have an email reminder list that I send out pings to on the 15th and 25th of each month. Just give me some addresses to put on it, and if y'all want to discuss stuff here and just email me a link to the discussion when I send out the reminders, that's great. Or just send me the high points. I'm pretty flexible.
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Those are good ideas, Robert - I'd toss in the J and Beyond registration coming up next month; Joomla!Day Melbourne 2010 on February 12 - 14; and, Joomla!Day France 2010 on March 21, 2010.
Maybe even pointing out milestones like the Joomla! Extensions Directory passed 4,100 Extensions and - by next month - Joomla! will have been downloaded over 15,000,000 times.
Yea, Jeremy! Robert - are you also interested? If we can get a small team, might be good to see if the Joomla! Community Group might want to involve the team, kind of like we did with the Magazine.
It's amazing when you start looking around how many things are going on - so - having a group willing to pull that together and share it with CMS Wire is really helpful -- and rewarding, truthfully.
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