Joomla!®!the next 10 years!A structure for our future.

Community

Communication

Power

Empower

Process

Progress

Be Brave

Be Bold

Be Strong

This is not new!we weren’t ready

for this before

If you lead will they follow?

If you lead they will follow!

What is the problem?

Rumours fill!the void

With transparency!there is NO void

Report to!the community

Reporting fills!the void

Accountability!Communication!

Leadership!Progress

Example

Joomla 1.5!Outdated!Ignored!Boring

The Message?

No one Cares

Someone Cares

Review - done!Design - done!Content - done!

Published - ?????

Accountability!Why isn’t it done

Communication!Reporting shows

the progress

Leadership!Addresses any

issues

Progress!Task is

completed

The Aims• Activity!• Open!• Flexible!• Sustainable!• Volunteer

ActivityIncrease the number of people involved

OpenOpen, democratic and

easy to understand

Flexibleallow new teams to

be created as needed

SustainableEnsure that the workload

and time requirements for volunteers is not

excessive

VolunteerMaintain the unique

volunteer only community structure

Let’s Make the Change

Joomla!® Community

Volunteers

Working Group

Working Group Leader

Many Working Groups

Leadership Team

Many Leadership Teams

Unified Leadership Team

It could be 3, 4 or 5 from a team. 4 is just an example

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Legal!Financial!(Minimum !required)

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WGOSM Candidate

OSM Candidates can come

from anywhere

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WGOSM Electorate 1

Option 1Only LT vote to Elect

OSM Board

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Option 2Only ULT vote to Elect

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Open √!Accountable √!Empowering √!Bottom up √

Reporting fills!the void

Summary!Effective structures are always triangles the question is how steep are the angles

and are people skilled enough to carry out the roles they are given.

Change Management

Change Management

Is hard

Nearly 70 percent of large-scale change programs didn’t meet their goals.!!

!

Harvard Business School

Just because something is

difficult doesn’t mean you

shouldn’t try.

It just means you should try

harder.

Thank you!!!