J! & Beyond 2010 has been a HUGE ROCKING amazing success !

I'm just back and still energized and inspired by this AMAZING event. I wanted to comment to another blog post, but this finally looked more like a blog post of its own... So let's make it such:

Robert ROCKS

Alex ROCKS
Brian ROCKS
Ryan ROCKS
YOU ROCK
All J&B attendees ROCK
Joomla! ROCKS
Whole Joomla Community ROCKS and is PASSIONATE and ENERGIZED
Those who missed this first international Community event have missed not only the free beers and happily paying beers to your neighbors during amazing BEER sessions (not videotaped), but making History in Joomla!

I'd like to share my intrinsic feeling that came out of this event:
A big page has turned in the history of Joomla ! :

While it's a profound feeling, I'll try to find and explain the reasons leading me to that feeling:

Joomla's Community has taken initiative and is now where the action is !
Joomla's OSM president (Ryan) has joined into the Community, listened, and understood the Community concerns and ideas
Joomla OSM has already integrated into its presentation of goals, literally OVERNIGHT ! THANK YOU Ryan for a great midnight discussion, and having already integrated the thoughts about it into your 9am keynote, redone during the night ! talk about fast !

At the end of his keynote, Ryan was fearing eggs, tomatoes and other throwable items. But, instead, for his listening and hearing and most importantly acting into the right direction, i.e. transparency and verified accountability, and his whole speech, Ryan got a standing ovation from the whole audience.

Thank you Robert, Alex, Brian and J&B Team for organizing the most ROCKING conference ever.

Thanks AllTogetherAsAWhole to have facilitated the organization of this event !
Thank you all who managed to also attend. Most of you were already virtual friends. The event made you real friends!

Plus I was very pleasantly surprised by meeting so many nice people: online written language and photos can't reflect passion well enough, and 3-D encountering of people.

If I can try to share what happened over and over there:

Community is about Peers Relations,
Relation is about Trust,
Trust is about knowing each other,
Knowing about each other is about getting together,
Getting together is about listening and expressing yourself,
Expressing yourself and getting listened to helps spreading great news and also resolving issues,
Resolving issues helps getting energized and positive,
Getting energized and positive strengthens Community ! (go back to point #1 during 72 hours!)

That is exactly what just happened in Wiesbaden over and over and over:

The event has incredibly strengthened relations, and thus the Community, and thus the Joomla project.

Thank you all who made this event a HUGE success.

The facility and location was perfect and superb. The partial lack of Internet was great too!!!

Where can I register now for an Internet-free J&B 2011 ?

I'm now looking forward to all this energy and friendships, and great decisions turning into lots of positive actions :-)

Guys and Girls,

Like Ryan made us cry out on his memorable morning wake-up OSM keynote, and Alex and Robert made us unanymously vigourously say All Together As A Whole:

Joomla! ROCKS!

and most importantly:

Joomla Community ROCKS!

I'm not mentioning amazing peoples, ideas, presentations, exchanges, the deeply human, open and sharing experience this was. I came back with my bags full of feedbacks and friendships from peer members of this solid, vibrant, rocking Joomla Community.

Did you also get that feeling ?

What are your thoughts ?

Beat

Tags: Community, J&Beyond, OSM, gpl, joomla, open-source

Comment by Robert Vining on June 2, 2010 at 9:38am: Wow! That was an amazing recount of your experience at JAB 10 and I'm really glad you shared it Beat. I'm also really sad I missed it!

Can't wait to see the video presentations as they roll out next week.

Thanks again Beat.

Comment by Peter Russell on June 2, 2010 at 10:13am: :) Bravo

Comment by Bo Astrup on June 2, 2010 at 11:01am: My thoughts? People DO make a difference and communication does break down barriers.

Beat what you said is just inspiring, thanks for sharing.

Comment by Jack Bremer on June 2, 2010 at 12:57pm: I wouldn't have missed it for the world - awe-inspiring organisation, and complete, 100% passion from the community.

Well done everyone that made it happen.

Comment by Ewout Wierda on June 3, 2010 at 1:15pm: What struck me most is this:
Most of us are not known beyond an online user name, posts here and there, possibly a photo and perhaps a voice heard by a few others. Nothing a person does online can do justice to the person he or she is. So, it was great to see the real people! I think everyone felt that they would want to meet all the people they met again. All this makes you wonder how anything could possibly go wrong for Joomla! Or, to turn it around, the more the limitations of online communication can be overcome, the easier it will be to get noses in the same direction, solve problems and do nice things.
Or, perhaps everything just turned out so well because we were drinking the best beer in the world after Belgian beer! And some also had the chance to drink some of the best beer brought by the Belgians :)

Comment by Marcos Peebles on June 3, 2010 at 1:38pm: ROFL, BEER wasn't missing, that's for sure!
I never thought that I would need a couple of days to recover from it, not only info-like wise but, I dear to say emotionally, dude what an incredible encounter this was!

If u ever wonder why you should use Joomla instead of other CMS's JAB gives you the answer, I am now more then ever tied to this framework/cms/community

Comment by Hung Dinh on June 3, 2010 at 2:05pm: great Team, great discussion, great conference and great beer with great friend all over the world....
...Let's go Jumla !

Anyways, I believe we ll get great free internet next time :) It's nice having beer with you Beat

Comment by Amy Stephen on June 3, 2010 at 6:50pm: Beat - I've read this a few times and it makes me SO HAPPY to hear you talking this way.

A big page has turned in the history of Joomla ! :

That was encouraging to read. Thank you for this post and hanging in there and being an important part of Joomla!'s heart and soul.

:) Good good stuff, man.

BTW - Hung - you were the JoomStew Contributor of the week a couple of weeks ago for your documentation on changes in 1.6 -- thanks for your contributions!

J! & Beyond 2010 has been a HUGE ROCKING amazing success !

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