Volunteer Engagement - What's been happening? July 2021 - February 2025

By Patrick Jackson on 2025-02-25 23:25 in Joomla! Volunteer Engagement Team

The world has changed over the past 4 years. So has Joomla. The lockdown benefited the Joomla project imensely by allowing Joomla 4 to be completed after over a decade of development. The increased availability of developers and contributors who filled their lockdown time with Joomla saw many aspects of the project accelerated during 2020 & 2021. Development has continued by a dedicated core team seeing the release of Joomla 5 in October 2023. The Joomla roadmap is keeping the...

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Marketing Minutes February 11, 2025

By Mike Kritzer on 2025-02-25 17:54 in Marketing Team

Date: Tuesday, 11th February 2025, 10:04-11:50 GMT-08:00 Attendees: Emmanuel Lemor, Mike Kritzer, Tom van der Laan, Outreach DC OSM, Maria Next steps * It is suggested that clearer communication and assignment of tasks are needed    to ensure that everyone knows their responsibilities and to prevent any one    person from feeling overwhelmed.  * Tom van der Laan mentions that content for a help page was assigned to Mike    and Maria,...

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Marketing Minutes January 28, 2025

By Mike Kritzer on 2025-02-25 17:12 in Marketing Team

Date: Tuesday, 28th January 2025, 10:03-11:04 GMT-08:00    Attendees: Mike Kritzer, Emmanuel Lemor, Angelika Prox Dampha, Maria Skampoura   Next steps   ·      Emmanuel suggested the need for modernizing multimedia content and improving the website's look and feel to retain users, indicating a direction for future actions.   ·      Emmanuel mentioned the need to research and reorganize the website's menu...

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Production Dept. Meeting February 18th 2025

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2025-02-25 09:26 in Production

Duration: 35 Mins.AttendeesSigrid Gramlinger, Benjamin Trenkle,  Harald Leithner,  Herman Peeren, Heiko Lübbe, Martin Kopp, Martina Scholz, Olivier Buisard, Peter Martin, Philip Walton, Richard Fath, Robert Deutz Production Department Coordinator (Sigrid Gramlinger) Re-elected as PD Coordinator, Sigrid is happy to serve for another Year CMS Release Team (Benjamin Trenkle) Joomla! 4.4.11 released Joomla! 5.2.4 released Joomla! 5.3.0 Beta 1 released Joomla! 5.4 RM...

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Joomla Events Team - 2024 Year in Review

By Patrick Jackson on 2025-02-24 02:08 in Events Team

After some personnel changes at the end of 2023, Patrick Jackson has been acting as Team Leader throughout 2024 and into 2025. Patrick's location in Australia, and availability during 2024 for meetings has been limited, so there's not been any regular meetings held during the year. The Events Team is primarily an administrative group, tasked with "Overseeing approvals and publishing of JoomlaDays, Joomla User Groups meeting events and related official global Joomla events." During 2024, that...

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OSM, Inc. - Full Board Meeting - February 20, 2025

By Private Profile 24e538de on 2025-02-20 14:59 in Board of Directors

Open Source Matters, Inc.Full Board of Directors and Officers Meeting Date: February 20, 2025 Time: 18:00 UTC Total time of meeting:  60 minutes   Attendees: Philip Walton (Vice President), Sigrid Gramlinger (Production DC), Carlos Cámara (Operations DC), Angelika Prox Dampha (Outreach DC) Apologies: Nadja Lamisch Proxies: Sigrid Gramlinger for Nadja    Discussion outline Treasurer Transferred some money from citi checked account to citi IMMA. I transferred...

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Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - February, 17, 2025

By Martin Kopp on 2025-02-17 20:14 in Bug Squad

Attendees: Brian, Christiane, Emmanuel, Nicola, Olivier, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 61 minutes- Talked about PBF, we will have 90 servers thanks to Olivier and Carlos. - Discussed the google sheet for PBF- need to have more easy testable PR's for 5.3.0- Martin will go through issues and mark issues with PBF so people can confirm issues too.- Maintainers: can 5.2 PR's be rebased to 5.3 to have more testable PR's- We may can have instances with prebuild packages to test Composer...

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Notes meeting 02/10/25

By Olivier Buisard on 2025-02-17 15:17 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Martin, Emmanuel, Phil, Gary, Benjamin, Shirielle, Olivier Objective:  What can we do to move projects forward? Item discussed: Joomla Health Checker (local server setup to be re-usable for Joomla Academy), Joomla Academy (public info coming soon through the student channel and magazine), Migration tool (Wordpress to Joomla) - needs developers working on Macs, GSoC registration in progress.  Next Meeting: 2025-02-24 1500 UTC

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OSM, Inc. - Full Board Meeting - February 06, 2025

By Private Profile 24e538de on 2025-02-06 14:41 in Board of Directors

Open Source Matters, Inc.Full Board of Directors and Officers Meeting Date: February 06, 2025 Time: 18:00 UTC Total time of meeting: 60 minutes Attendees: Philip Walton (Vice President), Nadja Lamisch (Treasurer), Angelika Prox-Dampha (Director), Carlos Camara (Director). Apologies: Sigrid Gramlinger (Director). Proxies: Discussion outline Treasurer Reimbursement from JoomlaDay USA received Checking the new eLTS We need urgently the contracts for PBF...

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Production Dept. Meeting February 4th 2025

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2025-02-05 18:18 in Production

Duration: 10 Mins.AttendeesBenjamin Trenkle,  Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, David Jardin, Herman Peeren, Llewellyn van der Merwe, Martin Kopp, Olivier Buisard, Richard Fath Bug Squad  Team (Martin Kopp) Meeting held on Jan 27, 2025 - next Meeting Feb 17, 2025 - woud be nice to have more participants. Everybody can participate Joomla! Enhancement Development Team (Olivier Buisard) GSoC opened registration. Shivam is registering Joomla Documentation Team (Herman Peeren) Busy...

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Notes meeting 01/27/25

By Olivier Buisard on 2025-02-04 00:09 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Hannes, Geraint, Martin, Emmanuel, Phil, Gary, Shivam, Shirielle, Olivier Objective:  Update on projects.Selection of projects for GSoC and Academy Item discussed: Joomla Health Checker (next meeting January 28th), Joomla Academy (project selection: SEO and Migration tool), Migration tool (Wordpress to Joomla) - fixes added by the developer, Featured articles PR 43907 - more testing needed, GSoC registration opening on January 27th. Shivam will submit a request for...

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Production Dept. Meeting January 21 2025

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2025-01-28 16:30 in Production

Duration: 20 Mins.AttendeesBenkamin Trenkle,  David Jardin, Herman Peeren, Heiko Lübbe,  Olivier Buisard, Peter Martin, Richard Fath, Viviana Menzel Joomla! Accessibility and Usability Team (Christiane Maier-Stadtherr) Started with new manual structure Security Strike Team (David Jardin) Automated-Update initiative is making good progress. CMS Maintenance Team (Robert Deutz) We had the cleanup sprint last weekend, we worked on PRs for 5.2 and could close/merge around 30 PRs....

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Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - January, 27, 2025

By Martin Kopp on 2025-01-27 20:02 in Bug Squad

Attendees: Emmanuel, Nicola, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 59 minutes - Discussed 5 issues, 4 moved to next meething. closed 0, 499 Issues marked as bug, 749 in total. Thanks to the team for bringing the numbers down! Next Meeting: 2025-02-17 2000 CET 1900 UTC

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SA&S Minutes 2025-01-27

By Harald Leithner on 2025-01-27 16:42 in Software Architecture & Strategy Team

Attendees: Brian Teeman, Harald Leithner,Llewellyn van der Merwe Updates Main topic of this meeting was the discussion about the proposed Failsafe, mostly about displaying an upgrade message while updating.  Autoupdates Talk about autoupdate and how it works, also talking about autoupdate in cli and container.

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OSM, Inc. - Full Board Meeting - January 23, 2025

By Private Profile 24e538de on 2025-01-23 14:38 in Board of Directors

Open Source Matters, Inc.Full Board of Directors and Officers Meeting Date: January 23, 2025 Time: 18:00 UTC Total time of meeting: 60 minutes Attendees: Philip Walton (Vice President), Sigrid Gramlinger (Director), Angelika Prox-Dampha (Director), Nadja Lamisch (Treasurer). Apologies: Carlos Camara (Director).   Proxies: Discussion outline Treasurer PBF Sponsors:Akeeba and Djumla will do a banner Sponsoring for both events.           ...

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Notes meeting 01/13/25

By Olivier Buisard on 2025-01-21 01:29 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Christiane, Martin, Emmanuel, Phil, Benjamin, Shirielle, Olivier Objective:  Update on projects. Item discussed: Joomla Health Checker (no update during the holidays), Joomla Academy (looking for UI/UX mentors, still no one came forward), Migration tool (Wordpress to Joomla) - fixes added by the developer, Featured articles PR 43907 - tests needed. Decisions made: .N/A. Action items: test updates to PR 43907 (Backend Featured removal view). Next...

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Production Dept. Meeting January 7 2025

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2025-01-13 10:11 in Production

Duration: 30 Mins.AttendeesSigrid Gramlinger, Benkamin Trenkle, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, David Jardin, Hannes Papenberg, Martin Kopp, Olivier Buisard, Peter Martin, Richard Fath, Robert Deutz, Viviana Mezel Bug Squad  Team (Martin Kopp) Meeting 6.1.25 - 12 issues discussed - 501 bugs remaining CMS Release Team (Benjamin Trenkle) Joomla! 5.2.3 released Joomla! 4.4.10 released Joomla! Accessibility and Usability Team (Christiane Maier-Stadtherr) We started working on content...

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OSM, Inc. - Full Board Meeting - January 09, 2025

By Private Profile 24e538de on 2025-01-09 14:23 in Board of Directors

Open Source Matters, Inc.Full Board of Directors and Officers Meeting Date: January 09, 2025 Time: 18:00 UTC Total time of meeting: 80 minutes Attendees: Philip Walton (Vice President), Sigrid Gramlinger (Director), Angelika Prox-Dampha (Director), Carlos Camara (Director). Apologies: Nadja Lamisch (Treasurer). Proxies: Discussion outline Treasurer Phil explains the signature of Char 500 he did with Nadja.. As written in the agenda, we are in time for taxes. We checked...

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Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - January, 6, 2025

By Martin Kopp on 2025-01-06 20:07 in Bug Squad

Attendees: Rolf, Brian, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 55 minutes - Discussed 12 issues closed 6, 501 Issues marked as bug, 751 in total. Thanks to the team for bringing the numbers down! Next Meeting: 2025-01-20 2000 CET 1900 UTC

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First 90 Days Report

By Angelika Prox-Dampha on 2024-12-29 23:21 in Outreach

In the final weeks of 2024, I contacted all Team Leads and members in the Outreach Department via Mattermost. Some teams had been inactive for years; several were reactivated quickly, others are gradually returning. A regular all-TL meeting was not feasible due to global time zones, so I joined individual team meetings when possible. Hence the topics are quite independent there a joint meeting is not a priority. Attending the team meetings has helped deepen my understanding of the work in...

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Marketing Minutes December 17, 2024

By Mike Kritzer on 2024-12-19 17:17 in Marketing Team

Date: Tuesday, 17th December 2024, 10:13-11:59 GMT-08:00 Attendees: Emmanuel Lemor, Mike Kritzer, Outreach DC OSM, Tom van der Laan Next steps Emmanuel Lemor proposed the idea of producing numerous short instructional videos to create a comprehensive resource library for NGOs, enabling them to better utilize Joomla. There is an interest in experimenting with AI to create short instructional videos based on existing articles, indicating a potential direction for future projects. Emmanuel...

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Notes meeting 12/16/24

By Olivier Buisard on 2024-12-17 17:34 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Christiane, Martin, Martina, Emmanuel, Gary, Phil, Benjamin, Shirielle, Olivier Objective:  Update on projects. Item discussed: Joomla Health Checker (meeting ahead), Joomla Academy (looking for UI/UX mentors, nobody came forward so far), Migration tool (Wordpress to Joomla) - much help from Hannes, meet with the original developer ahead, Featured articles PR 43907 - changes made by Christiane, Guided Tours: Shepherd library licensing change, looking for a replacement...

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Production Dept. Meeting December 10 2024

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2024-12-17 08:24 in Production

Duration: 12 Mins.   Attendees   Sigrid Gramlinger, Benkamin Trenkle, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, Harald Leithner, Herman Peeren, Heiko Lübbe,  Olivier Buisard, Richard Fath, Robert Deutz Production Department Coordinator (Sigrid Gramlinger) Motion PROD2024/010 was rejected (Cookie Manager from GSOC2021 in Joomla Core)2 in favour, 10 against, 3 abstained Bug Squad  Team (Martin Kopp) Meeting held 2024-12-09 Joomla! Enhancement Development Team (Olivier...

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Marketing Minutes December 3, 2024

By Mike Kritzer on 2024-12-10 17:02 in Marketing Team

Date: Tuesday, 3rd December 2024, 10:02-11:09 GMT-08:00Attendees: Mike Kritzer, Emmanuel Lemor, Tom van der Laan, Outreach DC OSM, Alireza Javaherian, Maria Skampoura Meeting SummaryThe group discussed technical support challenges, concerns about the Outreach team's exclusion from website design decisions, and issues with outdated training courses on Joomla. Future plans for Joomla's 20th anniversary were proposed, emphasizing leadership involvement. The need for user feedback in Joomla's...

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Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - December, 9, 2024

By Martin Kopp on 2024-12-09 20:02 in Bug Squad

Attendees: Rolf, Brian, Hannes, Emmanuel, Nicola, Martin (Teamlead) Duration: 50 minutes Discussed 4 issues  591 Issues marked as bug, 756 in total. Thanks to the team for bringing the numbers down! Next Meeting: 2025-01-06 2000 CET 1900 UTC

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Notes meeting 12/02/24

By Olivier Buisard on 2024-12-02 19:01 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Martin, Martina, Hannes, Emmanuel, Gary, Phil, Shirielle, Olivier Objective:  Update on projects. Item discussed: Joomla Health Checker (still in the feasability phase, more updates next time), Joomla Academy (looking for projects, UI/UX mentors), Migration tool (Wordpress to Joomla) - More attention to it, issues are added to Github, addition of drone through the project to help hash issues out (thank you Hannes), Featured articles PR 43907 - goal for inclusion in...

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SA&S Minutes 2024-12-02

By Harald Leithner on 2024-12-02 16:40 in Software Architecture & Strategy Team

Attendees: Guido De Gobbis, Harald Leithner InputFilter Main topic of this meeting was the discussion about the Input and InputFilter and the return mixed value. The Joomla Input Object returns NULL, Integer or and array of Integer for the Int Filter. Some solutions have been discussed in the chat and in the meeting.

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Production Dept. Meeting November 26 2024

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2024-12-01 10:47 in Production

Duration: 21 Mins.   Attendees   Sigrid Gramlinger, Benkamin Trenkle, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, Hannes Papenberg,  Harald Leithner, Herman Peeren, Heiko Lübbe,  Martin Kopp, Martina Scholz, Olivier Buisard, Peter Martin, Robert Deutz Production Department Coordinator (Sigrid Gramlinger) Dicussion about Cookie Manager in Joomla 5.3. There are pro's and con's. We will make a motion. Bug Squad  Team (Martin Kopp) Constantly working on reducing the issue count...

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OSM, Inc. - Full Board Meeting - November 28, 2024

By Private Profile 24e538de on 2024-11-28 14:18 in Board of Directors

Open Source Matters, Inc.Full Board of Directors and Officers Meeting Date: November 28, 2024 Time: 18:00 UTC Total time of meeting: 30 minutes Attendees: Philip Walton (Vice President), Sigrid Gramlinger (Director), Angelika Prox-Dampha (Director), Carlos Camara (Director). Apologies: Luca Marzo (Secretary). Proxies: Discussion outline Treasurer Physical address sent an email for renewal. This should be paid automatically in January via paypal. Check with the accountant...

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CMS Release Team Meeting November 27, 2024

By Benjamin Trenkle on 2024-11-27 19:00 in CMS Release Team

Participants: Jenn, Stefan, Benjamin, Phil, Olivier, Emmanuel, Peter, Christiane, Martin, Claudia, Martina, Rachel, Rolf, SD Release 5.2 Joomla! 5.2.2 released    Release 5.3 Joomla! 5.3 Alpha 1 released Language We currently have 50 language packages for Joomla 5.x. 9 are for 5.0.x 7 are for 5.1.x 5 are for 5.2.0 13 are for 5.2.1 16 are for 5.2.2 We currently have 57 language packages for Joomla 4.x  

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