Extension and Services Section Editors Needed for Joomla! Community Magazine
The Joomla! Community Magazine will have a monthly feature sharing examples from broad categories of Joomla! Extensions and Services. One month might feature Template Frameworks, the next CCK offerings, following by Joomla! Blogging options or Hosting solutions, etc. The goal is to promote and make visible the diversity of amazing solutions provided by this community.
Since the Joomla! Community Magazine is our baby, we need to make certain it's successful. It is good for our ecosystem and community pride. We need two teams, each with four (or five) members. This is a perfect way for Web site builders and Trainers to contribute to the project, given your knowledge across these various categories and experience with various options.
Planning continues, but here is the basic idea for how this might work:
- Two Extension and Services Teams, each with four or five members will rotate so that there is two months available to produce each category issue.
- Collectively, the Extension and Services editors determine and schedule upcoming categories.
- Community are invited to propose options during the first two weeks of the month and vote for their favorite options during the last two months. It is still under discussion whether the community vote should determine all options, or if editors should select one or two items in order to feature important, newer titles that might not otherwise be visible.
- Developers will be encouraged to get their customers, friends, and mothers into the forums, propose and vote on their work. A special "brag" badge can be displayed on developer Web sites telling visitors that their Extension is to be (or was) featured in an issue. This should be a fun encouragement for developers and a way to promote the magazine.
- Once the options are finalized one of the Extensions and Services Teams will split up the options to be featured in the magazine and each write articles about the Extensions (or services, etc). In other words, Person 1 will write an article on Extension 1 and Person 2 will write an article on Extension 2, and so on.
- The team will also write a combined article that compares and contrasts these options to help differentiate the offerings.
Paul is holding a forum discussion on this process and you are invited to join the discussion at that location (Please do not discuss the process here.)
We need volunteers. If you are willing to be an editor on one of these two teams and will write every other month, please volunteer. We need people to get involved in this project and build a strong, positive, active community voice. This section of the magazine will be a powerful promotion and learning tool and, as such, will helping strengthen the Joomla! ecosystem and promote our collective work.
The Joomla! Community needs you. Will you please help?
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Comment by saurabh shah on February 13, 2010 at 9:56am -
I would love to join the community and contribute to it .... I am in for this ...
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Comment by Amy Stephen on February 13, 2010 at 11:38am
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Thank you, so much, Saurabh, once we gather folks together, we will let everyone know next steps.
I wanted to clarify, in case there was a question, the Joomla! Community Magazine is for everyone. I posted this blog here so that I could link to it in Twitter and emails as Ipesterinvolve community in an effort to recruit.
Feel free to post on your own Web sites, too, and help recruit involvement. I hope during 2010, we find a "little piece of Joomla!" for each of us to help with -- and getting the word out to bring in contributors is everyone's job.
People do not have to be part of All Together to help with the Magazine - that's a Joomla!-wide project. Of course, feel free to invite Joomla! developers and site builders to participate here, as well.
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Comment by Ahmad Alfy on February 13, 2010 at 3:04pm -
Well I've got a lot of people -but unfortunately not my mother :D- I think I can get them to vote on the forums for extensions I use to build their websites with. I can also contribute to the team mentioned :)
Will check Paul's discussion and brb!
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Comment by Brian "Sully" Sullivan on February 13, 2010 at 3:04pm -
I'll sign up. Let me know where and how, it's not clear to me.
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Ahmad and Brian - just "sign up" in the comments - like you did - and follow this discussion and more information will be shared as to next steps. Thanks very much for your willingness to help!
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Comment by X5Creative on February 13, 2010 at 3:18pm -
Hrm...I'm interested, and confused at the same time.
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X5Creative - confused is fine! We'll figure out all the details as we go along. Right now, if you are willing to join the team and help make this happen, that's all we need to know! Once we get the teams assembled, we will take the next step together. Thanks so much -- this magazine is going to *seriously* rock!
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Comment by Norm Douglas on February 13, 2010 at 3:27pm -
As I've said in the past Amy, count me. I currently have the time and desire to work on this magazine.
Also I think we really need to cover non Joomla topics such as standard web design practices.
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Norm - this specific assignment will be for the Extensions and Services Section -- there will be other sections of the Magazine (like those ideas you are speaking of).
Are you willing to be on the Extensions and Services Team? (Note: you can still contribute in the other sections, of course, but this call is for staffing of 2 teams that will help with the Extensions and Services Feature.)
Also - we will need a couple of folks willing to be team leads - if that sounds good, please volunteer!
This magazine is going to seriously rock. Thanks all!
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Comment by Jeannette Duguay on February 13, 2010 at 3:51pm
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I don't have tons of time, but it sounds doable if we all contribute! I'm IN - and following this discussion. :)
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