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In reference to this:

Core Team Announcement
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,34386.0.html

Welcome guys...keep the good work.

Congrats to all the new team members!  Great to see the fresh ideas and amazing talents join the team.  Thanks everyone for your efforts in making Joomla the best CMS out there!

Best,
Ryan

Not really a surprise anymore, but new menbers welcome to the team!!!!! Also thanks to Jean-Marie and Nicolas on their work on Joomla, and good to hear that they will be around.

Hello from Austria und be welcome!

Manfred from http://www.joomla.at
and my team from our support group

ps.: i like to read some beginning with Commodore 64, but it´s my second bevor i starting with VC20 ;-) and programming in Basic!

Congrats, good luck and have fun!!!

--Slixter

Congrats guys!

Also a special thanks to Nic and JM for their hard work in the past, and no doubt their community assistance in the future.

Congrats Thanks Nick & JM

Yea, welcome to the team! Great to see the momentum continuing on this great project!

Congrats guys! I think its safe to say that everyone in the community will benefit from having the brightest minds join the development of Joomla! Only good things can come from this.. Who would have thought that being a part of a community could be so exciting!!

Congrats!!!

Best wishes to the new members of the Joomla core team. 

Many thanks to Jean-Marie and Nic for their dedication to the project and their unfailing support and dedication to the community.  Sad to see you both leave the core.  Merci beaucoup mes amis.

I second with everyone. Welcome to the team! I have watched you guys some time now and you are doing an amazing Job.

I also want personally to thank J-M and Nic for your efforts and I'm very happy to hear that you still will be around in the community. I really like you guys and you have give lot of positive impact to the community during your time as core members. Thanks again! 

Welcome to all the new core members ! Great to see that your talent and skills will be used to bring Joomla! to an even higher level.

Thanks to Nicolas and Jean-Marie - you both made important footprints ! Stick around, community matters 

Welcome on board the team everyone! Although I had "seen" some of you around already... enjoy Joomla! 

What a dynamics again: Joomla, the vibrant CMS 

Congrats & Welcome to the team!

Welcome Louis, David, Mateusz, Richard, and Sam. It's simply fantastic to see this type of movement
in the community and a wonderful announcement with my 5AM cup of coffee. Glad to see this and
thank you for all of your diligent work on Joomla!

Great news indeed.

Welcome new (and not so new) faces! If you're half as sharp as Rey makes you out to be then we're all in really good shape. Greetings again from the forum junkies!

I'm very happy to know about the "new entries", so my Best wishes to the new members of the Joomla core team!

Glad to see more fresh blood in the Core, hoping to see all this SOC stuff integrted asap, hope to see Nic & JM around as much as possible, and.. a question:
any further statements about all the "mia" Core members? just resting or..?
*some* names recently made a comeback on SVN over the last few days, but others seem to have vanished into thin air..?
Keep up the excellent work all, thanks!

I wish the "new" core members al lot of success and also a lot of integrity, representing such a large community.

I am amazed and also concerned that the project director, Mr. Andrew Eddie, is not making this important announcement and i am also concerned that two highly respected members of this community are  not being properly shown any gratitude for their efforts to this community with this announcement.

I personally would like to thank Jean-Marie and Nic for their involvement and highly appreciated contribution. Keep in touch mes amis!

Related to announcements it seems that much more restructuring and changes are being made without informing this community.......Very simple examle  Johan Janssens position has always been" PHP Developer/Javascript specialist " (see "about us" section of the joomla.org-site) In this announcement he seems to have been promoted to Lead Developer of Joomla.......(being before an external sort of party hired to do some specific work on Joomla 1.1.....) I kindly ask Andrew Eddie as the project director to clarify this situation?

As Joe (Eyezberg) referred....where are the core members from the early Joomla-hours and who are indeed still real and honestly active ?

Leo

leolam wrote:Related to announcements it seems that much more restructuring and changes are being made without informing this community.......Very simple examle  Johan Janssens position has always been" PHP Developer/Javascript specialist " (see "about us" section of the joomla.org-site) In this announcement he seems to have been promoted to Lead Developer of Joomla.......(being before an external sort of party hired to do some specific work on Joomla 1.1.....) I kindly ask Andrew Eddie as the project director to clarify this situation?

Hi Leo 

It has been mentioned in several threads that Johan has taken over development team lead for 1.1. I think this thread can be of interest and explains the changes.

http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... #msg143887

change is always certain.......

My concern with Nics departure is the effect on accessibility. When people with expertise leave an organisation (even an open source one) usually their role is filled in some way or refined/reworked.

Some more details on accessibility and roles I would welcome......as this my one major interest in joomla.

Joomla is certainly moving fast and as always I look forward to installing the next release.....

Just wanted to weigh in on a couple thoughts here - I hope you don't mind

I'm equally interested in accessibility, however we need 1.1 to really make that possible in the first place - so we are definitely headed in the right direction.

I've been in the core for a couple years now, so I don't understand this whole tinfoil hat conspiracy theory that everyone has been replaced with body snatchers or whatever. Can someone please explain?

And finally, we are an open source project. Always have been, and always will be. It is a complete marvel that we have not had more turnover than we have, and is a testament to the people on the core and their dedication to the project.

We are a non-profit effort - and your turnover ratio at typical NPOs is hundreds (thousands?) of times higher. Having two people leave (and more than double that join) in one month should not indicate alien abduction or sinister pacts with the devil. This is just natural. I have not always been 100% available to the project, and as an unpaid volunteer I don't think it is fair to expect me to be 100% available all the time, across the whole year.

Joomla is growing, a lot more than back in the good ol' Mambo days where 8 or 9 people could manage the load. It takes more time to do more, especially from an administrative point of view. So we are all learning where we can best contribute to the project. I used to be wholly interested in writing code, for example. But now I am almost totally focused on advocacy and administrative work, as it needs to get done and I find it fun and challenging.

So if you see someone playing a role that they didn't before, that certainly doesn't mean anything bad has happened. In fact it should be good news, as it means we are all evolving with the project as it evolves.

Welcome to the new folks, please let them enjoy the announcement of their addition to the project.

Also, I am proud to have worked with Nic and Jean-Marie, heck I even shared a room with the mad Frenchman! hehe

So you got some of the good Cognac, did you..?
My question was just: are the ones not "visible" (for lack of a better term) currently still aboard or not? Simple curiosity. Like Tim, Andy and Alex for example.. It's just that you get used to see some people around, and after some time of no news, start wondering whatever happened to them, that's all..

It's all one big conspiracy!!!

Ok, just kidding.

Everyone who spends 10 seconds helping this project, rocks.  A friend of Joomla is a friend of mine. =)

Best,
Ryan

eyezberg wrote:My question was just: are the ones not "visible" (for lack of a better term) currently still aboard or not?

Nope, they were eaten by our alien overlords months ago.

*spacemonkey tries to keep a straight face

did you succeed? (about the straight face)
not me..

Congrats from the Polish Team to The New Core Members who along with The Old Ones make Joomla better.
Special congratulations go to Mateusz!