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New York, NY, - May 3, 2016 - Joomla!, one of the world’s most popular open source content management systems (CMS) used for everything from websites and blogs to custom apps and Intranets, announced today that OSTraining is the RFP winner for the Joomla! Free Video Training. This partnership will make it even easier to get started with Joomla!.
The contract has been granted to OSTraining by Open Source Matters (OSM) - the not for profit organisation, created to provide organisation, legal and financial support to the Joomla! project.

The selection of trainings will cover the basics, maintenance and also improving your Joomla! website.

“We are very pleased that we together with OSTraining will be able to lower the learning curve for new Joomla! users. Especially the non-developers. This is also an awesome opportunity for Joomla! users of all experience levels to learn Joomla! best-practices. This service will also make it easier than ever to keep up with the new functions, improvement and enhancement in the Joomla! CMS. “ says the President of Open Source Matters, Sarah Watz.

Steve Burge, CEO of OSTraining, says: “We want to make sure that as many people as possible can use Joomla. Many new Joomla! users need training, which can be expensive to access. The goal of this partnership is to give everyone free access to the very best Joomla! training.”

The launch of training.joomla.org, where users can find the FREE video trainings, will be in the end of May.

Read more: Joomla! will provide FREE Video Training in partnership with OSTraining

Open Source Matters, Inc. invites interested and suitably experienced Training Companies to submit proposals for the purpose of creating the first Joomla.org training center.

The Request for Proposals document can be viewed here.

This Request for Proposals is intended to outline the type of training Open Source Matters, Inc. would like to provide free of charge for the Joomla! community directly through training.joomla.org.

If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please ensure that you read the Request for Proposals document thoroughly, taking note of the Submission Timeline, and provide the required information by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. prior to the deadline.

Open Source Matters expects to contact the successful vendors in December 2015.

On April 8th 2015 the Board of Open Source Matters Inc (OSM) conducted their second Annual General Meeting of the Members in accordance with the bylaws. The main purpose of the Annual General Meeting of the Members is electing the Board of Directors of OSM.

Before the elections took place a motion was made to elect the Directors of the Board of Open Source Matters Inc., for the term of six months. The motion passed with unanimous consent.

From a list of candidates that consisted of board Directors who could be re-elected the members selected a board of 11 Directors: Martijn Boomsma (The Netherlands), Ronni Christiansen (Denmark), Victor Drover (USA), Jorge Lopez-Bachiller Fernandez (Guatemala), Rod Martin (USA), Tessa Mero (USA), Ryan Ozimek (USA), Saurabh Shah (India), Joe Sonne (Canada), Marijke Stuivenberg (The Netherlands), Sarah Watz (Sweden)

The elections of the Board of Directors followed a different procedure compared to previous years. There has been no nomination round before the elections. The reason for doing so lies in the expected vote on the proposed structural changes in the beginning of May. The board will organize a special meeting before October 8th, 2015 where a different election process that applies to the situation will be implemented.

Immediately following the Annual General Meeting of the Members, the Regular Annual Meeting of the Directors took place. The purpose of this meeting was to elect the officers of the board: President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary.

The Directors selected:

• Sarah Watz as President of the board of Open Source Matters Inc.
• Rod Martin as Vice President of the board of Open Source Matters Inc.
• Victor Drover as Treasurer of the board of Open Source Matters Inc.
• Marijke Stuivenberg as Secretary of the board of Open Source Matters Inc.

Meeting Minutes of both meetings will available after approval at the next Board Meeting in the 2015 Meeting Minutes.

OSM likes to thank all elected Board Directors and Officers for taking on this responsibility and at the same time wish to thank Radek Suski and Mike Carson who resigned from their positions earlier this year. We are very appreciative of all their contributions and efforts during their terms as board directors of OSM.

Shortly before publishing this announcement, it became clear that Tessa Mero joined the Production Leadership Team and therefore resigned from her position on the Board of Open Source Matters. OSM likes to thank her for all her efforts during her term as a Director of the board and wish her the best of luck in her new position.

A momentous occasion for Joomla this weekend! The Joomla! Leadership has decided in a team wide vote by all members of the Community Leadership Team (CLT), the Production Leadership Team (PLT) and the board of directors (OSM) to move forward to implement a new structure and methodology for the organisation. The motion passed this weekend with ⅔ in favor.

There has been a huge support for change, but not everyone believes, or are still convinced that proposal we voted on is the right path. However, now I think it is important that we come together, identifying where we can help out the most, rolling up our sleeves and make it a reality.

Read more: A new structure and methodology