Johan Janssens

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.

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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.

Understanding Open Source

Talking to people at open source events, and recently at JandBeyond, I’m always surprised how easily people use the excuse ‘I don’t have time to contribute’ to the open source projects they use personally or as part of their business.

Those same people are however quick to point out governance issues, code bugs and missing features. Some of them even dare to demand for solutions for their problems.

There is no them nor we, there is only us

In recent discussions with people from the Joomla Project I have been made aware of a growing perception among the Joomla leadership that Nooku is not only a direct competitor with Joomla, but also that Nooku is trying to actively take developers away from Joomla.

Nooku is a project for developers, integrators and hackers alike. We aim to bring developers together. We prefer collaboration over competition to grow our code and we welcome anyone who is willing to contribute in a constructive and respectful manner. We accept that we are all in this together, striving to create better software; striving to make ours and others people’s lives easier.

The commons in which we - The Nooku Community - work contains software under an OSI-approved licence free from usage restrictions with guaranteed freedoms to use, study, modify and distribute it – “free software“. Our Nooku contributors each work at their own expense in order to achieve a shared outcome that benefits all, including
themselves.