Make it Happen
Talking is easy – let's get to work. At the Make-it-Happen sessions, we turn ideas into real results. Joomla's teams open their doors and invite everyone to roll up their sleeves. In hands-on sessions, you'll work on concrete tasks and projects – from improving the documentation to bug squashing, marketing and social media, to accessibility, certification and the ongoing care of the CMS. Whether you're a seasoned contributor or a complete newcomer, a developer, writer or tester – there's a place for you to help shape Joomla. The goal is not just to inform the community, but to activate it. At the end of each session, we don't want to leave behind notes – we want real, tangible progress for the Joomla project. Because Joomla isn't made at conferences. It's made by the people who show up and join in. Make it Happen.
Social Media Team
Storybooks for Videos Planning
Joomla has a lot to show off. What it does not have is a stack of ready-to-shoot video scripts. Let's change that.
Joomla! Enhancement Development Team
Health Checker: Plugin Ideas
Joomla can tell you a lot about your site, if you know where to look. The Health Checker is supposed to do the looking for you. Now it needs things to look at.
Documentation Team
Documentation: The Guide
Everybody agrees the documentation should be better. Far fewer people have sat down and written a page. This session is for the second group.
Joomla! Volunteer Engagement Team
Volunteer Engagement: The Buddy Concept
Plenty of people want to help Joomla. A surprising number give up before their first contribution ever lands. That gap is what this session is about.
Community Magazine Team
Joomla Community Magazine
The magazine comes out every month. Every month it needs articles. The structural problem should be obvious.
OpenSourceMatters
Accessibility Testing Workshop
Joomla's accessibility work does not fail on good intentions. It fails on how few people can actually test. This workshop goes at that from the supply side.
Joomla! Enhancement Development Team
MCP Server: Next Steps
The proof of concept works. An AI client can talk to Joomla, read system information and purge the cache. Impressive for a demo, thin for a feature.
Bug Squad
Bug Squad Session
The issue tracker does not empty itself. For a few hours, we make it try.
Capital Team
Sponsoring and the Capital Team
Open source is free. Running it is not. Servers, events and the occasional strike team have to be paid for by somebody. That is what this session is about.
Certification Team
Certification: Revive and Skilldisplay
Joomla has a certification programme. It was built for Joomla 3, nobody ever updated it, and the exam calendar has said no events found for a long time now.
Social Media Team
Social Media Posts: Text and Images
A social media account with nothing scheduled is just a logo. In this session we fill the queue.
Marketing Team
Preparing Joomla Features for Marketing
Joomla ships features that nobody outside the release team has ever heard of. That is a marketing problem, not a development problem.
CMS Maintenance Team
What the Maintenance Team Actually Does
Somebody has to keep Joomla's code base in shape. Bugs fixed, dependencies current, old code taken out, patches reviewed. That is the Maintenance Team, and almost none of it is visible from the outside.
Documentation Team
The Developers Manual
The developer manual is what you link to when somebody asks how something in Joomla's code works. Which means it has to cover a lot more than the framework.
Joomla User Groups Team
JUG Meeting
User groups are where most people meet Joomla for the first time. Keeping one alive is harder than starting one.
Operations
Project Management and Community Sites
Joomla runs a surprising number of websites. Most of them are maintained by whoever happened to be there last.