As a co-founder of Joomla! and Open Source Matters (the non-profit arm) Brian travels the world "Spreading the Joomla Love". Joomla began not in a European bedroom but as an abandoned product of an Australian company in 2001, progressing through a fork in 2005 to today where Joomla has grown to become the world's most widely distributed CMS. So what makes the Joomla leadership and community structure unique? Since it's birth Joomla has never had a benevolent dictator or a corporate backer and it has no offices, employees, membership or voting process yet it all seems to work. In a no holds barred presentation where nothing is taboo or too painful I will share the challenges we've faced, issues we are still working on and lessons learned with more than a few laughs along the way. Images used in this presentation are freely licenced OR CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 the named photographer

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Hippies, Pirates, Revolutionaries or a Distributed Community
Brian Teeman - Co Founder
http://brian.teeman.net
http://hiddenjoomlasecrets.com
@brianteeman
@brianteeman@

2. BRIAN TEEMAN
DRUPALCON MUNICH AUG 2012

3. NO JOOMLA CAR

4. NO JOOMLA JET

5. A COMMUNITY MEMBER
DREAMING OF A JOOMLA BEER

6. OPENSOURCEMATTERS

7. DRESS SMART

8. TOO MUCH?

9. NOT A JOOMLA EVENT

10. CODE OF CONDUCT?

11. CODE OF CONDUCT?

12. CODE OF CONDUCT

13. CODE OF CONDUCT

14. THE REAL BRIAN
AMAZEE LABS

15. THE REAL BRIAN
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16. THE REAL BRIAN
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17. THE REAL BRIAN
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18. THE REAL BRIAN
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25. WARNING JOOMLA AHEAD

26. SO WHAT IS JOOMLA?

27. SO WHAT IS JOOMLA?
IT’S SOFTWARE TO HELP YOU BUILD WEB SITES

28. NEVER HEARD OF IT
A FEW QUICK FACTS

29. GROWTH

30. EVENTS

31. USERS

32. DOWNLOADS

33. ADD-ONS

34. 57 LANGUAGES

35. 2.9% OF TOP MILLION SITES
EVEN HIGHER FOR SMALLER SITES

36. 3000+ GOVERNMENT SITES
IN EVERY COUNTRY AND TERRITORY

37. WHOLE COUNTRIES
RELY ON JOOMLA! FOR THEIR WEB SITES

38. USERS ACROSS THE WORLD
IN ALMOST EVERY LANGUAGE

39. REAL PEOPLE

40. WHO ARE JOOMLA?

41. WHO ARE JOOMLA?
HIPPIES

42. WHO ARE JOOMLA?
HIPPIES PIRATES

43. WHO ARE JOOMLA?
HIPPIES PIRATES
REVOLUTIONARIES

44. JOOMLA THE BEGINNING

45. A UNIQUE BEGINNING
NOT THE USUAL WEB START-UP

46. NOT IN A BEDROOM

47. SOUTH COAST AUSTRALIA
I KNOW THATS SYDNEY BUT IT’S ONLY A PHOTO

48. MAMBO OPEN SOURCE
CONTENT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

49. NOT MAMBO NO. 5
BY LOU BEGA

50. NOT MAMBO NO. 5
BY BOB THE BUILDER
NOT MAMBO NO. 5

51. DEFINITELY NOT
SURFER DUDE CLOTHING COMPANY

52. DEFINITELY NOT
SURFER DUDE CLOTHING COMPANY

53. MAMBO OPEN SOURCE
2001 - ABANDONED ON SOURCEFORGE.NET

54. MAMBO OPEN SOURCE
2001 - ABANDONED ON SOURCEFORGE.NET

55. MAMBO OPEN SOURCE
2004 - AWARD WINNING CMS

56. 2005 SHIT HAPPENS

57. 2005 SHIT HAPPENS

58. DECLARATION INDEPENDENCE
17 AUG 2005

59. REVOLUTIONARIES?

60. REVOLUTIONARIES?

61. JOOMLA! IS BORN
1 SEP 2005

62. JOOMLA IS A NEW WORD
THE WORLD HAD NEVER HEARD OF IT

63. THATS A BIG DIFFERENCE
FROM 4 TO 400 MILLION

64. WHAT A RIDE
THRILLS, SPILLS AND HIGH OCTANE EXCITEMENT

65. WHO IS IN CHARGE
NOT ME

66. THERE IS NO BIG BOSS

67. NO DICTATOR
NOT EVEN A BENEVOLENT ONE

68. NO SECRET GROUP
NO FOUNDERS CIRCLE

69. NO PLANNED DIRECTION

70. PROJECT STRUCTURE

71. OPEN SOURCE MATTERS

72. OPEN SOURCE MATTERS
MONEY
DOMAIN NAME
TRADEMARK
COPYRIGHT

73. WEAK

74. LEADERSHIP MODEL
EVOLVING ALL THE TIME

75. LEARN BY TESTING
SOMETIMES BY CRASHING

76. LEADERSHIP STYLES
PRINCESSFROGLIPS

77. FLAT - MEAN AND LEAN
IRVINE

78. BURNOUT

79. PYRAMID

80. MULTIPLE PYRAMID

81. HARD TO RISE TO THE TOP

82. HARD TO MOVE DOWN

83. CIRCLES
EMILY WEAVER

84. CONNECTED CIRCLES

85. LOTS OF CIRCLES
GIRAFFE DOG

86. SOLVED IT? NO!

87. ALL ABOUT PEOPLE
SIGRID

88. LEADERS

89. MANAGERS
SIGRID

90. USERS
SIGRID

91. THE CHALLENGES

92. AVAILABLE TIME

93. WORLD TIME

94. CULTURAL TIME

95. PAID DEVELOPMENT

96. WHY NOT ME?

97. QUEEN’S ENGLISH
BEAUTY EYE

98. ENGLISH?

99. AMERICAN?

100. A 2ND LANGUAGE

101. MIND YOUR LANGUAGE

102. LOLCATS

103. PUSSY CAT

104. PUSSY!

105. PUSSY!

106. ONE LANGUAGE?

107. LANGUAGE BARRIERS
KKFROMBB

108. CAN BE OVERCOME
KKFROMBB

109. CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

110. CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

111. CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

112. CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

113. CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

114. 1 WORLD MANY CULTURES

115. USER GROUPS

116. THE NETHERLANDS

117. ITALY

118. ITALY 1200 PEOPLE

119. LOCAL MODELS

120. COUNTRY

121. GENDER

122. LANGUAGE

123. SECRET COMING

124. PLEASE DON’T SHARE

125. JOOMLA BUSINESS PLAN

126. CAN’T KEEP A SECRET

127. THERE IS NO PLAN

128. THAT’S CONFUSING
BUT REALLY IT IS VERY SIMPLE

129. JOOMLA! IS A BIG SHIP
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

130. SMOOTH SAILING?

131. BUT WE ALWAYS HAVE FUN
AND SOMETIMES EVEN A FEW BEERS

132. NOT ABOUT LEADERSHIP
GRAPHITEBP

133. ABOUT ALL TOGETHER
EASTOP

134. HELP A FRIEND

135. TELL A FRIEND

136. TEACH A FRIEND

137. MAKE A FRIEND

138. TRANSLATIONS

139. TUTORIALS

140. DESIGNS

141. CODE

142. IT IS ALL ABOUT PEOPLE

143. NOT FINISHED YET
THERE’S EVEN MORE

144. NOT ABOUT WHO IS BIGGER

145. NOT ABOUT WHO IS BETTER

146. NOT ABOUT WHO IS BETTER
74.9% OF THE TOP
1 MILLION WEB
SITES ARE NOT
USING AN OPEN
SOURCE CMS

147. WE’RE NOT THE ENEMY
ALL OPEN SOURCE TOGETHER

148. 16 - 18 NOVEMBER SAN JOSE

149. ANY QUESTIONS?
ASK ME OVER A COFFEE OR BEER

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Joomla!
Hippies, Pirates, Revolutionaries or a Distributed Community
Brian Teeman - Co Founder
http://brian.teeman.net
http://hiddenjoomlasecrets.com
@brianteeman
@brianteeman@