Learning Through Doing: Finding Your Way To Contributing In Open Source Projects

2003 2008 2012 Started using open source tools Needing to pay off loans from Started working with Joomla as my main (Knoppix, Ubuntu, ClamAV, University, I started building occupation and proposed my first talk for HijackThis) to fix infected Joomla! websites and freelancing the Joomla World Conference in San computers for other students while alongside work. Jose (supported by Passport to Export scheme) - joined GitHub! at Uni, as ‘Essex Virus Removals’. My contribution journey Section divider 2007 2009 My first job in IT after graduating as Started a local Joomla user group a physio! Working in a school as an as I wanted to meet other Joomla IT Technician, I was asked to rebuild users and find ways to do things / the website. Came across Content have people to ask when I got stuck. Management Systems (Drupal, Joomla!) and started using Joomla. We met monthly and quickly gained a committed group of members. @RCheesley

2013 2015 Created my first bug report on Raised my first issue and PR for Stepped up to Mautic Project Lead after GitHub! Invited to join the Joomla Mautic - a project that has just the founder decided to step back from Community Leadership Team to launched and which I used for involvement with the project. Led my support User Groups and clients in our Digital Agency. first release, established our community 2020 governance model, teams and values. Marketing. Section divider 2014 2019 Created my first PR at a Pizza, Bugs Started work at Acquia as Mautic and Fun event to fix a bug in Community Manager, helping the Joomla, which was merged the day open source community to after it was submitted! 🥳 establish its own governance and autonomy from the corporate Joined the Joomla Marketing Team. entity which was acquired by Acquia in 2019. @RCheesley