Community Blog

18. August 2026

• STF Milestone Selection Committee Candidates to Be Chosen

  A small group of 5 community members have stepped forward to volunteer as STF Milestone Selection Committee members. These are the volunteers who will be interviewing and selecting future candidates for paid positions on STF milestone teams. If you are an active, official member, team lead, or assistant team lead, please watch the inbox of the email account registered with your volunteer portal record. The candidates are:

  • Tom van der Laan - Tom works on the Joomla! Academy, CMS Release, PBG and Marketing teams.
  • Laura Gordon - Laura is best known for being the key organizer of JDayUSA for the past few years. She's a member of the JUG Team and also works for Rutgers University (NJ, USA) on the UXD Study.
  • Nicola Galgano - Nicola is a member of the Bug Squad and Automated Testing Team.
  • Yannick Gaultier - Yannick is a mechanical engineer by trade, but fell in love with web development and never looked back. He's big on SEO and has developed several extensions addressing SEO and SEF among others.
  • Stefan Wendhausen - Stefan is currently contributing on the CMS Maintenance and Release as well as Language and Outreach teams.

  Thank you to Robert Deutz, past OSM Board member and one of our STF Project Managers, for identifying these committed Joomla! volunteers! And thanks, also, to these dedicated volunteers!

  Voting opens July 22 at midnight UTC and closes a week later. Want to get to know these ambitious volunteers? The STF - Public Mattermost channel might be a good place to chat with them.

• Exciting News: Joomla! Sets Its Sights on Google Summer of Code 2026

  We are thrilled to announce that Joomla! is officially preparing its application for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026!

  For years, GSoC has been a cornerstone of our community's growth, bridging the gap between experienced developers and the next generation of open-source contributors. As we look toward the 2026 cycle, our enthusiasm is at an all-time high. We are ready to welcome a diverse wave of mentors and contributors to help shape the future of our CMS.

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• We're Back...

  What a hellish 22 days it's been since waking up on August 21st to news Facebook took our Joomla page down for impersonation of ourselves. (not a typo)

  Our Facebook page is a major artery in the distribution of critical news to our community and it's been a real challenge and additional workload to try to ensure information was seen. That atop multiple appeals to Facebook support staff.

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