WHERE’S
THE MONEY?
We’re all doing this for free!
Brian Teeman · OPEN SOURCE CMS 26
FREE
DOESN’T
MEAN £0.
Servers. Domains. Legal. Trademarks. The unglamorous stuff.
NO JOOMLA
COMPANY.
Not even a "related" company from the project founder.
No payroll for project managers.
No salaries for the people running the project.
Joomla is built and run by volunteers.
There is no company behind Joomla paying developers to write code (or anything else).
THE MONEY
PAYS THE BILLS.
Open Source Matters handles the project’s finances and legal responsibilities.
THOUSANDS
OF HOURS.
WHO WOULD
DO IT FOR FREE?
Who would build it? Maintain it? Still care twenty years later?
AND YET.
HERE WE ARE.
People kept showing up. The technology changed. The faces changed. The project continued.
YOU DON’T
NEED TO BE
A DEVELOPER.
There isn’t one correct way to contribute.
Sometimes the most valuable thing you can do is help the next person get started.
SOMEONE
DID IT FOR YOU.
Someone answered your question. Fixed your bug. Wrote the instructions you needed.
THEY DON’T
KNOW YOUR NAME.
They built something for a future they couldn’t see — and for people they’d never meet.
YOU DON’T
PAY IT BACK.
FORWARD.
Someone helped you. You help someone who comes next. They help someone after them.
TIME IS A
CURRENCY.
MONEY IS TOO.
People and companies who benefit can support the project financially. But a donation is not the only way to help.
“SOMEONE ELSE
WILL DO IT.”
That’s how a room full of good people can still leave the work to nobody.
WHAT CAN
YOU MAKE
POSSIBLE?
Choose one thing. Make one contribution. Help one person who comes after you.
Joomla!PAY IT
FORWARD.
It was made possible by people you may never meet.
Make it possible for someone else.
Twenty years ago, they said Joomla wouldn’t last. The faces change, the technology changes, and Joomla evolves.
But one thing remains: Joomla is free, built by the people who use it, for the people who use it.
We’re here because people keep choosing to pay it forward.
