JFusion Blog

Finally, I have now published a new section on the website, called 'get involved'. You might have seen similar pages with other open source projects before, and that is because they aim to educate users on one of the most important factors of open source development: How you, like anyone else, can take an active part in the project you've come to love, and do your fair share to speed things up.

Now, about what you might be missing...

New opportunities for simple contributions are springing up every day. Today I would like to bring two new possibilities to your attention.

1.  Some days back, Joomlashack launched a voting contest, asking "what are your favorite Joomla! extensions?" It is unsure exactly when they plan to end this contest as there seems to have been a slight postponement. Important part being: There's still time, so go vote! Regardless of whether we make it into the top 10 or not, being high up on these lists is always healthy for our publicity, so please don't hesitate to vote just because the odds are against us. Do play fair though, and use the rest of your votes for the other extensions you happen to be fond of. This time we weren't quite prepared, so next time we'll either have to keep a keener eye or maybe some little bird will twit about the news, which brings me to...
2. Twitter. Most of you should already be familiar with this microblogging phenomenon. Some of you might be part of the Facebook group already, but if you're anything like me, Facebook can just be too much. Twitter is building momentum fast and getting recognized as a new powerful publicity tool. jFusion is tweeting already, and if you do to, about or in reply to jFusion, the word will spread fast.

Thanks in advance! And remember, new internet phenomenons are coming to life daily, so if you find something that you think might be of use to jFusion, be it for publicity or otherwise, by all means don't hesitate to tell! (a simple tweet in the right direction might suffice)

For the community this might not be as expected, but all the veteran developers of jFusion have known this from the start of my involvement. For a long time I've been planning a long-term stay in Ghana, Africa, and the time has finally come. I'll be staying there for four months working as a volunteer teacher for children age ~9. Come January 2nd and I'm off!