Date: Tuesday, 10th November 2026
Time:16:00 UTC
Duration: 1 hour

Attendees: Louise Hawkins, Claudia Weber-Lenck, Anja de Crom, Herman Peeran, Viviana Menzel, Richard Gosler

What Did We Talk About?

The Joomla Community Magazine team met for our monthly Submit-Your-Stuff meeting to review progress on the upcoming November issue. We currently have 17 articles planned for November, with most already progressing well through the editorial process. During the meeting, we reviewed the status of the planned contributions, checked on progress and discussed what still needs to be completed ahead of publication.

These meetings are an opportunity for the team to coordinate efforts, identify where support might be needed and make sure everything stays on track.

There's plenty happening behind the scenes, and we're looking forward to sharing the finished

Date: 22 October 2026 - 18:00-19:30 CEST (4:00pm - 5:30pm UTC)
Attendees: Cyril Rezé, Mike Kritzer, Nadja Lamisch. Richard Gosler 

New Volunteers and Team Growth

• Nadja brought 3 new volunteers from JWC
  • Nico: manages German Mastodon account, will help with social media and writing
  • Russell: UK native English speaker, already working on video storyboards with Gianluca
  • Angelika: interested in short promotional videos, took footage at JWC
• Melanie (designer at YOOtheme): offered to help with images and carousel graphics
  • Not yet on Mattermost; Nadja will email her
• Jenny: invited by Richard, wants to join but couldn’t attend today; will come to next meeting
• Dan Atrill:

The automated testing team had recently a meeting about the future of code style checking in the Core repo, including checks in pull requests as part of the Github workflows. We want to share the decisions made here:

• We will remove the phpcs dependency completely in 7.0-dev branch with 48769
• We stick to the php-cs-fixer as it is more active and maintained by Symfony people, it lacks of support for HTML in layout files, so we try to find a solution for this 47936
• We stick to directly commiting cs fixes to the fork repo and do not use an external action (no extra dependency) to create a pr in the fork repo, but will remove the "skip ci" command from the commit message 48768

There is also a a

Open Source Matters, Inc.

Full Board of Directors and Officers Meeting

Date: 2026-10-29
Start Time: 18:00 UTC
End Time: 19:54 UTC
Total time of meeting: 1 hour, 54 minutes

Attendees:

• President - Elisa Foltyn

• Vice President - Emmanuel Lemor

• Treasurer - Ufuk Avcu

• Production DC - Sigrid Gramlinger

• Outreach DC - Richard Gosler (left early, around 19:40)

• Secretary - Bruce Scherzinger

Apologies:

• Operations DC - Carlos Cámara

Proxies

• Emmanuel Lemor for Carlos Cámara

Discussion Synopsis:

Treasurer

• The statements for September month have been prepared.

• The Axxess Lab invoice has been

Participants
Make it Happen session at JWC 2026, Potsdam, 17 October 2026:
Sigrid Gramlinger, Brian Teeman, Sabine Volmert, Angelika Prox-Dampha, Florian Bauer

Things are moving again

At the Make it Happen session in Potsdam, five of us met to discuss how to bring the Joomla Certification Program back to life. We agreed to keep it as simple as possible.

Our approach

• Start with the Administrator certification only.
• Keep it low-level and don’t overengineer it. The focus is on the exam itself.
• Set up a public directory of certified Joomlers.
• Taking the exam will cost a fee, so the certification carries real value.
• Each certification is tied to a Joomla major release, and every certified person gets a personal badge with their name.

Next steps