All Together, As A Whole Joomla! Site Builder and Developer Network

The All Together site is ours as a Joomla! Site Builder and Developer Community. I think it's time, again, that we start pulling together. Having an independent place can help us focus on strengthening the ecosystem and resources available for us.

Here are a few areas where I believe forming volunteer teams and getting rolling could be very helpful.

Security
Test Extension software, monitor security services and cracker sites for vulnerability reports. Contact developers with vulnerability issues and help them, if necessary, with fixes. Improve notification processes with users.

Distributions
Organize a distribution center or help create easy ways to develop installation profiles, that make it easier for site builders to jump start new engagements, and create new marketing opportunities for developers.

Learning
Organize regular developer learning opportunities where community developers take turns teaching courses online and anyone can sign up and attend the training. Identify critical documentation needed and find ways to produce that work and share it with the community. Provide and support example Extensions and basic getting started Tutorials.

Support
Organize a support environment where developers can help each other with questions, upgrades to new releases, ideas, and so on. Peer support is a valuable resource and having a team of community developers consider the best ways to do that would start to make that happen.

Project Policies and Communication
Provide regular updates, through written form and podcasts, to the developer community on changes to project policies, like the JED TOS. Organize "calls for comment" on change. Collect input on problems and opportunities. Improve overall communication to the development community so that we are able to evolve away from forum debates towards well structured policy recommendations developed from broad developer outreach.

Ecosystem
Consider new marketing approaches that help developers reach out in organized ways that extend beyond the project Web site. Share business model resources and exchange business ideas.

What do you think? Is it time to work together more closely? If so, what areas do you believe are important? In what areas would your skills and interests help the Joomla! developer community?