I Hate to Pick on Facebook, But …
Here’s one of the subscribers we got to after advertising on Facebook for a week. We targeted only people in the U.S.:
Steve’s Blog
There is Peace in the GPL World
I was watching the U.S. healthcare debate play out yesterday and it got me thinking. I thought back to when our own industry was dominated by legal arguments, most of them half-digested and poorly-sourced. Including my own. The GPL debates in open source were not a fun time and they dragged on for years. So, I did some looking back and unless I’m missing something, the last real argument about the GPL was in July 2010, two years in the past.
It’s Time for Joomla to Become Professional
[UPDATE] I was nervous before posting this but want to thank everyone for the big response. I’ve heard from a lot of people today and the great thing is many of them agree: we need to raise our game. The future can be bright. There are a lot of opportunities out there for Joomla. We just sometimes need to be reminded to go and grab them. Sorry, Disqus is being a real pain and comments are sometimes missing on this thread after a server move. Instead of commenting, go and do something positive. You’ll feel much better, I promise. Help…
There is an Open Source Rival to Facebook: WordPress
I always cringe when seeing people try to build an open source rival to Facebook. Projects like Diaspora gain publicity as a nice idea, but get little real traction. However, I’ve come to believe that there is a potentially viable and very real open source rival to Facebook … WordPress. That might sound silly at first, but hear me out:
Moved from Alledia.com to steveburge.com
Alledia.com had a really great six year run. But, I’ve moved everything over to steveburge.com. I moved for several reasons: 1) Urgency. OSTraining traffic is going up, up, up. Visitor numbers are way, way higher than this time last year. I need to move as many sites off that server as possible. 2) Business. “Alledia” isn’t really me any more. It’s a company and one that has very little to do with open source. Alledia Inc. runs AppalachianTrail.com, LakeLanier.com and LakeAllatoona.com. For practical reasons related to #1, we couldn’t use Alledia.com, but the business is now at Alledia.net. 3) A…
Our New Product: Admincredible
Remember that new product mentioned on the blog at the beginning of May? I’m delighted to say that things are coming along great. The name of the product is Admincredible and I know you’re going to love it. We’ve absolutely loved building it. In building Admincredible, I’ve had the chance work with a lot of people that I’ve long admired. TJ and Eddie from Joomlashack are helping me bring the product to fruition. Fotis, Chiara and the Nuevvo team are doing the design work. We’ve got some great coders on the project too. Visit Admincredible.com to sign up and become one…
First Peek at a New Business
Tonight at the Joomla User Group in Atlanta I’ll be giving the first public peek inside our new business. Details of how to attend are here: I’m really excited about this project: It involves a lot of great Joomla people that I’ve met over the years. Some of them I’ve been hoping to work with for a long time. It scratches my own itch. OSTraining is my main business and that is designed to scratch other peoples itches. Even if this side-project completely flops commercially, I’ll still use it myself. Intially it will be a Joomla project, but I…
A Short but Honorable List
Someone asked me a question last night so I racked my brain and came up with the answer of “5”. I’m a little sad this list is so short. So, kudos to these open source events: DrupalCon Munich DrupalCon Denver DrupalCon Copenhagen JoomlaDay New England JoomlaDay Netherlands Anyone know what these events did to make the list? Even better, any ideas for making it longer? *Update* The answer is “events that are brave enough to invite speakers from other open source projects”.
No Upgrades? You’ll Scare Your Users Away
Today is Halloween so it’s a good time to addresses a scary topic. After a baby-hiatus this summer, I’ve been back on the road again teaching a lot of Joomla and Drupal. I’m talking to a lot of end-users and finding that there’s something really scary In our open source platforms. No Upgrades? Your Customers See an Exit Door I tweeted a while ago that a lot of people are migrating to Joomla and Drupal from the Vignette / OpenText system. Why? Because OpenText are dropping support for an old version and moving to the new version requires a major…
The 4 Pillars of Open Source Communities
In 2006 I quit my job to work full-time in open source. It was fortunate timing, because the years since then have seen extraordinary growth. What was once a hobby or a sideline has now taken over the web. It’s almost certain that more than 20% of the web will run on either WordPress, Joomla or Drupal by the the end of 2011. What is even more amazing to me is how fragile it often seems on some days. Having worked in and paid close attention to the people and structures running our three huge projects, I’m constantly amazed by…