Mission Statement

Our mission is to provide a multilingual, flexible and free platform for digital publishing and collaboration, made and sustained by volunteers. The platform should be stable, secure and extensible. Adapting the latest technologies to the core product to be innovative and renewing as a platform.

Our mission is to provide a stable tool for agencies, web-builders, SMB’s and non-profits to easily build, extend, maintain and edit an online publishing platform.

For our end users our aim is that they are able to input, edit and distribute content within the CMS frontend without a big learning curve.

Vision Statement

• Establish, maintain and support a global community of volunteers.
• Open Source Software that is free, secure, and high-quality.
• Engage ourself as a socially responsible project
• Build trust with all our users and therefore becoming a stronger community.
• Communicate openly on all levels of the community and about our software
• Act autonomously as a project

Key Values

• Freedom
• Equality
• Trust
• Community
• Collaboration
• Usability
• Transparency

This document outlines the Code of Conduct for all persons volunteering their service to the Joomla Project and/or Open Source Matters. It covers your behaviour as a member of the Joomla community, in any forum, mailing list, Wiki, Web site, IRC channel, install-fest, public meeting or private correspondence. 

If you cannot agree to any of these principles, then volunteering in the Joomla Project is not for you. Contributing to our community assumes acceptance of these principles:

Be Considerate

You are working with others as a team so be considerate of how your actions or contribution affects your colleagues and the community as a whole.

Be Respectful

Treat one another and members of the community with respect. Everyone can make a valuable contribution to Joomla. We may not always agree, but disagreement is no excuse for poor behavior or poor manners.

We might all experience some frustration now and then, but we cannot allow that frustration to turn into a personal attack. It's important to remember that a community where people feel uncomfortable or threatened is not a productive one. We expect the members of Joomla community to be respectful when dealing with other volunteers as well as with people from outside projects and initiatives and with users.

Avoid becoming involved in flame wars, trolling, personal attacks, and repetitive arguments. Take the matters "outside" (off-list, etc) if it helps resolve the situation, and do not use communal methods of communication to be a vehicle for your private "wall of shame."

Be Collaborative

Joomla is free software and about collaboration and working together. Collaboration reduces redundancy of work done in the free software world, and improves the quality of the software produced regardless of whether you are writing code or performing some other task.

When you disagree, consult others. Disagreements, both political and technical, happen all the time, and Joomla is no exception. Disagreement, debate and constructive criticism is often how progress is made and are a necessary part of doing complex work in a team.

The important goal is not to avoid disagreements or differing views but to resolve them constructively. Above all, avoid making conflicts about the work into personal conflicts. Debate should never include reference to someone's nationality, gender, religion or other personal characteristics.

You should turn to the community and to the community process to seek advice and to resolve disagreements. Team leaders and Department Coordinators are able to help you figure out which direction will be most acceptable.

When you are unsure, ask for help. Nobody knows everything and nobody is expected to be perfect. Asking questions avoids many problems down the road and so questions are encouraged. Those who are asked should be responsive and helpful. However, when asking a question, care must be taken to do so in an appropriate forum. Off-topic questions, such as requests for help on a development mailing list, detract from productive discussion.

Step Down Considerately

People on every project come and go, and Joomla is no different. When you leave or disengage from the community, in whole or in part, we ask that you do so in a way that minimizes disruption to the Project. This means you should tell people you are leaving and take the proper steps to ensure that others can pick up where you leave off.

Be Available

Check your e-mails regularly and answer them promptly—even if it's "I'll get back to you."

Be Honest

Sometimes the hardest thing to say is "no" or admit you've forgotten do something. Be honest with each other and yourself with regards to what you say and what you can realistically commit to.

Follow the Rules

Volunteers are expected to uphold Joomla's licensing and trademark requirements including, but not limited to, compliance on their own or affiliate Web sites and extensions. Make sure you have sought the appropriate approvals for domain name, name and logo usage prior to volunteering and that any extensions you distribute comply with the Joomla license.

All work contributed to the Project, whether code, documentation or other material, must observe the appropriate licenses as set down by the Core Team and Open Source Matters.

Some contributors represent the Joomla Project in specific areas, but you should not speak on behalf of the Project or present yourself as an official representative of the Project unless you are specifically authorized to do so, and you should never state your opinions as the official policies of the Project.

Exercise Discretion and Confidentiality at Appropriate Times

Depending on your role, you will be privy to various levels of information. As a volunteer you are expected to keep site access details (such as logins, FTP details, etc.) secure at all times.

Information contained within private forums (for example, about serious security matters, legal cases, or personal details), private mailing lists, chats or other mediums is also to be kept confidential even after you have discontinued your service. Breaches in the area of privacy and confidentiality are taken very seriously by the Project.

Conflict of Interest

When using Project resources or making decisions within the board, your department, team, or subteam or the concerning Project's policy positions, you must do so based only on the best interests of the Project and its user community. If you have a situation or affiliation that might constitute or lead to a conflict of interest or might be perceived by a reasonable person in the community to be a conflict of interest, disclose this to your Team Leaders or the team as a whole. If appropriate, after discussing with your team, you should remove yourself from specific decisions or discussions in which you may have a conflict of interest.

Conflict Resolution Team

Should you wish to make a CoC violation report or are facing a conflict that has failed to be resolved in the manner set out in this CoC, please click here to access the report form.

The Fine Print

Members of the board of Open Source Matters are governed by additional guidelines and requirements and, where a conflict exists, these take precedence over this Code of Conduct.

The Last Bit

This Code of Conduct has changed over time and will continue to develop, but was originally derived, with permission, from the Ubuntu CoC.

Last Updated 3rd of August 2018

The Joomla Project has several Working Groups that have been created to utilize the wealth of knowledge our community provides. Each of these groups focuses on a specific aspect of Joomla essential to the project's growth and development.

They are also an opportunity for anyone interested in helping Joomla grow. Those who are interested are encouraged to work with or join a Working Group where your talents are best applied.

Working groups

In order to make it as easy as possible for people to participate in working groups and for there to be flexible collaboration across team boundaries there are two large working groups.

Production

The focus of the Production Working Group is on creating "Software that is free, secure and of high-quality." Production encompasses everything that goes into the final product, not just code but also documentation, internationalisation and localisation efforts of all types.

Community

As an open source project, community lies at the heart of our very existence. We would not be the major open source project we are today were it not for the time and effort given by so many people who together form the Joomla community. The new Community Working Group is charged with providing the structures and community management necessary to create an online community that is "enjoyable and rewarding to participate in." It will nurture and support online communities of users, provide support and information to users, and facilitate communication between users and the Production Working Group. User communities may be based on language or region, user type (such as administrator, developer, site user, host, and so on), areas of interest or a new classification that emerges organically.

Working Group Leadership

Each Working Group has people who provide direction and leadership for the group. These are the people who keep the working groups functioning and provide continuity for project contributors.

Production Working Group Leadership

You can follow the Joomla Production Working Group Leadership Team on their public mailing list here:

Subscribe to Joomla! Production Working Group Leadership

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Community Working Group Leadership

You can follow the Joomla Community Working Group Leadership Team on their public mailing list here:

Subscribe to Joomla! Community Working Group Leadership

Visit this group

Membership in a leadership team is not defined by being in a specific role but rather by doing the work of leading and directing the group. Members of the leadership teams will be appointed by the teams themselves and members can be removed by the teams themselves. The number of members of each leadership team is fluid and determined by the needs of the group. The leadership teams will be responsible for organising and managing task groups and other teams as they determine will be most effective.

The Joomla! Project is a community-based project with contributors from all over the world working in many different capacities.

Departments

The Joomla! Project is organized into six Departments. These groups utilise the wealth of knowledge our community provides. Each of these groups focuses on a specific aspect of Joomla! essential to the project's growth and development. Each department has a leadership team and together they form the Board of Directors.

Hundreds of volunteers participate in the teams forming Joomla! Departments. You can find out more about these teams on the Volunteers Portal.

Project Leadership

The Joomla! Project is governed by the Board of Directors of Open Source Matters, Inc., a not-for-profit created to provide organization, legal, and financial support to the Joomla! Project. This leadership team nurtures all critical aspects of the Joomla! Project to ensure its continued existence, relevance, and integrity. Open Source Matters provides the necessary foundation for the Joomla! Project to receive donations, develop partnerships, retain copyrights and trademarks, and protect the individual contributors from unnecessary legal exposure.

Software License

The Joomla! software and default templates are copyright 2005-{source}<?php echo date('Y'); ?>
{/source} Open Source Matters, Inc. If you want to use, copy, modify or distribute Joomla, you may do so under the terms of the GNU General Public License. If you are unfamiliar with this license, you might want to read the GNU General Public License FAQ.