We all hopefully know that joomla is a misspelling of a swahili word meaning "all together" but do you know how we chose that name or what the cms formerly known as mambo could have been called.
At the recent Joomla!Day in the Netherlands I gave my recollections of the turbulent and traumatic process involved.
Sadly I was doing most of this by memory as I no longer have any of my own records from that time, but Arno, Jean-Marie and Johan helped to fill in some of the gaps.
I'll be making this presentation again at J&Beyond later this month and maybe by then I may have filled in a few more gaps.
Read more: Joomla Supporters Club - Revisited
Almost a year a go I wrote a proposal for a "Joomla Supporters Club"
Unfortunately perhaps the timing wasn't right and despite positive comments from the Joomla community the idea sadly fell on deaf ears.
Which suprised me as it was one of the most read items on this blog in the year
In the last few weeks several people have contacted me about trying again.
So never being one to give up at the first attempt I'm making another attempt to get this off the ground.
Perhaps now is the right time to finally get the Joomla! Supporters Club up and running.
Read more: Volunteer Skill Reservoir
I've been involved with voluntary organisations for over 25 years, either as a volunteer, employee or organiser.
Every organisation has suffered from the same problems: lack of volunteers, volunteer burn-out, missing skills and cliques.
The problem usually arises when a new task/team/role is created and the default option is to look at the existing pool of volunteers and asking some of them to take on the task. Without consideration of them having the required skills, or importantly available time, just that they are already "known people".
Who is the Joker in the Joomla pack?
