The Holstee Manifesto is a call to action to live a life full of intention, creativity, passion, and community.
Success of collaboration is having the right kind of people meet at the right table at the right point in time feeling adventurous, bold and forward thinking.
Why Nooku
I have been asked this very question many times in the past three years. So far my answer always has been : “I am passionate about creating free software, building web architectures and collaborating with others”. While this is 100% true it’s not the complete answer.
Being removed
A little over three years ago my involvement in the Joomla project was abruptly ended. On the 20th of October 2008 I received the following mail
… you have been effectively inactive for more then a year now. Because of this we concluded that you have no plans to be actively and constructively engaged with this team any more … We would like to thank you for your huge contributions to the project. Without you the project would absolutely not be where it is today.
Two days before, on the 18th of October, I had finished my work on the removal of legacy libraries and legacy code for Joomla 1.6. My last SVN commit to Joomla 1.5 was made on the 11th of January 2008, only 9 months earlier.
Still on 20th October 2008 my SVN access was removed. Suddenly I was no longer allowed to contribute to the very project I had put my heart and soul into building.
Almost ironically a week later I received the most valuable person award for Joomla from Packt Publishing.
Presentation from JandBeyond 2011 in the Netherlands covering Nooku’s path from vision to architecture.
Focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Andrew Zuckerman went wisdom-hunting among 50 of our time’s greatest thinkers and doers.
Jumla needs you to lead us
The first weekend of September I traveled to Florianopolis, Brazil to speak at the annual Joomladay Brazil. I was among 4 international guests who the Brazilian community had nominated as keynote speakers for this years event.
Joomla ‘for’ or ‘from’ the community
Talking to organizers and community members during and after the event I learned about their concerns, frustrations and anger around the Joomla trademark processes and policies.
I learned about the creation of Joomleiros.com (a real joomleiro), the issues with the joomla.com.br domain (official open letter), the disappointment over only receiving an apology and the feeling of letdown when being pointed to just another email address by Open Source Matters, the holder of the Joomla trademark.
We need you to lead us
These issues are not new. I have heard similar frustrations from many event organizers and community members all over the world in the past years.
I am enough. A great story about #courage #connectivity #compassion #authenticity #vulnerability and giving up #control from @brenebrown
We innovators, are a tribe. We may not share all of the same capabilities, strengths or knowledge, but we’ve all been through the same fires. Respect other innovators and acknowledge their scars and sacrifices. We are the sharp end of the spear, and carry the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune to prove it.
Joomla is ‘the’ Platform
In the past 6 years Joomla has seen an immense growth capturing almost 3% of the internet. Most still see Joomla as a CMS. Even Joomla.org states :
Joomla is the worlds most popular open source content management system. With 2.7 % of the internet running on Joomla the software is used by individuals, small-sized & medium size businesses and large organizations worldwide to easily create a variety if websites and web applications.
Reality is that Joomla is no longer just a cms. After 6 years of collaborative innovation Joomla has become a web platform, extendible by over 8000 extensions build on a powerful framework.
We use this platform to build products for ourselves, for our clients, and for our peers. The framework that sit’s at it’s heart is our shared toolkit we (should) improve together so that those products can thrive.
”Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
The Joomla Dilemma - A story about punk, freedom, passion, pirates and future.
Video from my keynote presentation on the Joomladay Greece 2011. You can find the slides here.
Summer musings ! Pictures from summer 2011 at Lake Como Italy.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood. Do so by removing any personal interests, emotional feelings or religious beliefs. If you are unable, respectfully step down.
The Joomla Dilemma
The Joomla Project is our tree of life. We feed of it’s fruits. In order to allow it to produce and grow it requires our continuous nurturing. If not, Joomla will die.
In my keynote at the Joomladay Greece I addressed the dilemma between project and product, while Joomla as a product is growing and is used on 2.5% of all websites on the internet, Joomla is failing as an open source project.
Finding a healthy balance between project and product will be key to continued succes.
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Johan Janssens is co-founder of Joomla, an open source content management system. Johan also held the role of Lead Developer and Project Manager during the development of Joomla 1.5.
Today, Johan spends most of his time working on Nooku, an innovative open source web platform and application development framework.
Johan is also co-founder and CEO of Timble, a privately held software company that offers products and services for Nooku and Joomla.
