Having been around the JoomlaSphere in some capacity or another for years, what keeps me around and coming back are the wonderful and super helpful people that I have encountered over the years... some stay, some go, some comeback and some don't but they are collectively the pillars of the Joomla! project no matter in what way they participate, or contribute...
One such person is Joe Sonne a.k.a. JoeJoomla, a humble gentle soul that is always pleasant and willing to lend a helping hand, not just as part of the JoomlaDay USA team but also in other ways: being a speaker, trainer, writer and more...
Let's learn a bit more about Joe...
What inspired you to get involved with Joomla?
I discovered Joomla when I was helping to digitize the Canadian branch of a large International non profit. This is in the early 90s and I was helping them get their entire business 'online' as well as improve their enterprise processes… at that time, I was trying a few things, playing around with PHP Nuke and things like that… and I was pointed to Joomla by a web developer when I asked him about "what he would use to build websites today if he had to do it all over again and get results like the nice website he had"… and he pointed me to joomla.org… I created an account with Joe Joomla… and the superman S avatar… I started putting up questions around how to use Joomla on a Mac... there were not a lot of people doing that at the time I guess or I was faster at answering my own questions, and I started replying to/answering my own questions in the forum and pretty soon after, Joe Joomla started becoming popular.
What has stayed the most consistent and changed the most for you in the last almost 20 years of using Joomla?
The thing that originally appealed to me is that you could deploy a Joomla site quickly and it would look great and people were making great templates that gave you variety…… and that has stayed true to this day… and what has changed the most, Joomla’s core capabilities: now you have layout overrides, bootstrap, child-templates, custom fields, tags, and so much more, you can really great things if you want to delve in a bit…. Joomla went from being a very capable hotrod to an exotic racing car these days…
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