Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

The umbrella team for all working groups developing future functions for Joomla!

Department: Production
Date Started: June 2019

Joomler	Position	Date Started
Olivier Buisard United States	Team Leader	Apr 2024
Shirielle (SD) Williams United States	Assistant Team Leader	May 2024
Benjamin Trenkle	Member	Nov 2021
Christiane Maier-Stadtherr	Member	Jun 2024
Emmanuel Lemor France	Member	May 2024
Gary Barclay United Kingdom	Member	Mar 2025
Harald Leithner Austria	Member	Jun 2019
Martin Kopp Switzerland	Member	May 2024
Martina Scholz Germany	Member	May 2024
Patrick Jackson Australia	Member	Nov 2021
Philip Walton United Kingdom	Member	Nov 2021
Shivam Rajput	Member	May 2024

Joomler	Position	Date Started	Date Ended
Private Profile fe5e8265	Member	Jun 2019	May 2024
Shivam Rajput	Team Leader	Nov 2021	Apr 2024
Shivam Rajput	Member	Nov 2021	Sep 2022
Benjamin Trenkle	Team Leader	Jun 2019	Nov 2021
Private Profile c9273fb6	Contributor	Sep 2020	Apr 2021

Google Summer of Code Joomla Team (GSoC)

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global online program initiated by Google in 2005 to encourage new contributors to participate in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects. The program is designed and sponsored by Google to promote open source collaboration and provide hands-on experience to contributors in real-world software development.

Joomla's GSoC team facilitates Joomla's participation in the GSoC program. We are a team of passionate volunteers, each with a dedicated role, working together to develop new features and improve Joomla during the summer. Every project selected for Joomla under GSoC is guided by experienced mentors who provide support and help contributors achieve the project goals.

For information about the 2025 edition, please visit: https://docs.joomla.org/GSoC_2025.

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Notes meeting 09/08/25

By Olivier Buisard on 2025-09-16 15:05 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Martin, Benjamin, Emmanuel, Shirielle, Olivier [No meeting on 08/25] Objective: Discuss GSoC feedback, Joomla 8 sprint. Item discussed: Feedback GSoC, all projects wrapping up and evaluations submitted. Keep students engaged. Academy moving to once a year, headed by OSM...

Notes meeting 08/11/25

By Olivier Buisard on 2025-08-18 23:27 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Martina, Benjamin, Emmanuel, Shirielle, Olivier Objective: Discuss the long term goals of the team for this new year Item discussed: PBF: need to move the date so that the event comes before beta 1 of releases and be more effective. Team Goals Separate from...

Notes meeting 07/28/25

By Olivier Buisard on 2025-08-05 02:30 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Martin, Martina, Christiane, Benjamin, Emmanuel, Shirielle, Olivier Objective: Follow up on on-going projectsGoal for the new term: support long term projects Item discussed: Retaining the 'younger' generations How can we follow up after GSoC and Academy are over for a...

Notes meeting 06/30/25

By Olivier Buisard on 2025-07-08 16:20 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Martin, Gary, Emmanuel, Shirielle, Olivier Objective: Follow up on on-going projects Item discussed: Joomla Health Checker: magazine article on the way. GSoC and Academy: on-going. No issue reported. Elections: emails on the way Auto update PR recreated for the correct...

Notes meeting 06/16/25

By Olivier Buisard on 2025-06-23 16:37 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Benjamin, Martin, Gary, Emmanuel, Phil, Shirielle, Olivier Objective: Follow up on on-going projects Item discussed: Joomla Health Checker: presentation UI concept, review by the team. GSoC and Academy: on-going. No issue reported. Articles issued in the magazine. Elections:...

Notes meeting 06/02/25

By Olivier Buisard on 2025-06-09 23:40 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Benjamin, Martin, Gary, Emmanuel, Olivier Objective: Follow up on on-going projects Item discussed: Joomla Health Checker: looking forward next meeting where we will talk about UI and functionality to include. GSoC and Academy: on-going. No issue reported. B/C plugin...

Notes meeting 05/19/25

By Olivier Buisard on 2025-05-27 14:51 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Benjamin, Martin, Martina, Gary, Emmanuel, Shirielle, Olivier Objective: Follow up on on-going projects Item discussed: Joomla Health Checker: time is running out, all actors part of other major projects, so hard to move forward fast. Some aspects of the project overlap with...

Notes meeting 05/05/25

By Olivier Buisard on 2025-05-13 15:32 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Benjamin, Martin, Martina, Emmanuel, Shirielle, Olivier Objective: Follow up on on-going projects Item discussed: Joomla Health Checker: invite developers to the next meet so that we can present the project and get advice on underlying architecture. GSoC: projects approved,...

Notes meeting 04/21/25

By Olivier Buisard on 2025-04-29 15:41 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Patrick, Benjamin, Hannes, Shirielle, Olivier Objective: Follow up on on-going projects Item discussed: Joomla Health Checker Joomla Academy (Extended deadline for registrations), GSoC: projects approved announced May 8th.Timeline at...

Notes meeting 04/07/25

By Olivier Buisard on 2025-04-15 01:43 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Martin, Emmanuel, Phil, Gary, Shirielle, Olivier Objective: Follow up on on-going projects Item discussed: Joomla Health Checker - we need help with underline architecture Joomla Academy (Extended deadline for registrations), GSoC: projects approved announced May...

Notes meeting 03/24/25

By Olivier Buisard on 2025-04-01 03:20 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Martin, Emmanuel, Christiane, Hannes, Gary, Shirielle, Olivier Objective: Follow up on on-going projects Item discussed: Joomla Health Checker, Joomla Academy (Kick-off April 14), GSoC: projects approved announced May 8th, a couple mentors still needed for the AI project....

Notes meeting 03/10/25

By Olivier Buisard on 2025-03-18 03:27 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Martin, Emmanuel, Phil, Gary, Olivier Objective: Follow up on on-going projects Item discussed: Joomla Health Checker (Phil meta module demo, Gary working on the UI) - next meeting on the 17th, Joomla Academy (mentoring teams are set, discussions on GitHub, registration form...

Notes meeting 02/24/25

By Olivier Buisard on 2025-03-03 21:25 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Martin, Emmanuel, Phil, Gary, Benjamin, Christiane, Shirielle, Olivier Objective: What can we do to move projects forward? Item discussed: PBF thanks for your participation Joomla Health Checker (dashboard clean slate demoed, thanks Benjamin for assistance and...

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...

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...

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)...

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)...

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...

Notes meeting 11/04/24

By Olivier Buisard on 2024-11-12 02:39 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Date: Monday, November 4, 2024 Present: Benjamin, Martin, Emmanuel, Gary, Phil, Shirielle, Olivier Objective: Update on projects. Item discussed: Joomla Health Checker Joomla Academy Migration tool (Wordpress to Joomla) Decisions made: N/A Action...

Notes meeting 10/21/24

By Olivier Buisard on 2024-10-29 00:26 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Date: Monday, October 21, 2024 Present: Benjamin, Martin, Emmanuel, Martina, Gary, Phil, Robert (guest), Shirielle, Olivier Objective: Update on projects. Item discussed: Joomla Health Checker - update from the team working on the project: task list, private repository on GitHub for...

Notes meeting 10/07/24

By Olivier Buisard on 2024-10-14 20:47 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Date: Monday, October 7, 2024 Present: Benjamin, Martin, Emmanuel, Martina, Dieter, Phil, Hannes, Shirielle, Olivier Objective: Update on projects. Item discussed: Joomla Academy - Announcement made Mattermost channels created for 6.0 Joomla Health Checker - Additional discussions...

Notes meeting 09/23/24

By Olivier Buisard on 2024-09-30 00:43 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Date: Monday, September 23, 2024 Present: Benjamin, Martin, Emmanuel, Phil, Gary, Geraint (guest), Shirielle, Olivier Objective: Update on projects. Item discussed: PR 43907 - feedback is that wathever the changes made, it should not break anything. Going through the code for...

Notes meeting 09/09/24

By Olivier Buisard on 2024-09-17 01:38 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Date: Monday, August 26, 2024 Present: Benjamin, Christiane, Martina, Martin, Emmanuel, Phil, Gary, Shirielle, Olivier Objective: Going through the agenda and actions to take. Item discussed: PR 43907 - We talked about the importance of reaching people about the removal of the...

Notes meeting 08/26/24

By Olivier Buisard on 2024-09-03 15:30 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Date: Monday, August 26, 2024 Present: Benjamin, Christiane, Martin, Emmanuel, Olivier Objective: Look through the Joomla Health Checker proposal from Phil. Item discussed: PR 43907 - Difficulties to keep up to date until merged as many changes in the code occur and endless conflicts...

Notes meeting 08/12/24

By Olivier Buisard on 2024-08-20 14:27 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Date: Monday, August 12, 2024 Present: Phil, Benjamin, Christiane, Martina, Emmanuel, Shirielle, Olivier, Gary (guest) Objective: Feedback on the team's process and feature survey results. Item discussed: what skillset we bring to the Joomla project constraints of creating working...

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