joomla!

Once a year JandBeyond, the international Joomla conference is held in Europe. This time, the venue was, again, the Dolce Hotel in Bad Nauheim, Germany. Elvis Presley lived in Bad Nauheim during his time with the United States Army in Friedberg. 

My initial plan was to meet with Christine (my beloved wife :) ) at JandBeyond, attend the event and drive home together with her. The days before she was in Germany and I was in Switzerland. She prepared the session "Peace, Love and Leadership" and worked the weeks before the event together with the responsible working group on a Proposal for a new Joomla project structure (Discuss the proposal here). She was asked to attend the leadership meeting after the event. Unfortunately it was not possible for her to attend because of some trouble making a decision on behalf of the leadership team so she finally quit her participation.

If you attended jab12 too, please be so kind and add your preferred social media accounts in this Google doc and please post your links to photos in this Google doc.

And now - my story :)

I arrived Friday morning and as part of the video team I had to record sessions.

Over the last few weeks I was working with Allen Langford (@FxNxRl), Jeremy Wilken (@gnomeontherun), Javier Gomez (@JAVI_GOMEZ) and Peter Martin (@pe7er) on a proposal for a new structure for the Joomla Project.

There is a big need for a new leadership structure and for a greater active involvement of the worldwide community.

So we came together and wrote that proposal which we would like to understand as a starting point for an open discussion which finally ends in a common, wise decision about the further direction of the Joomla project.

Read it here, comment, get in contact with the people from the working group, the different leadership teams, discuss it in your local/regional communities!

Letzten Samstag hielt ich eine "halbe" Session auf dem BuchCamp in Frankfurt am 6. Mai 2012 (hier mein Blogeintrag dazu).

Da ich dachte, es ist ein BarCamp und jeder "gibt und nimmt" bot ich an über meine Tätigkeit als "Selfpublishing Autor" zu erzählen (Ich hatte natürlich keine Slides vorbereitet). So sinngemäss mit den Worten:

Ich erzähle euch über meine Arbeit, ihr über eure, und dann gucken wir, was wir zusammen machen können

stellte ich meine Session vor und bekam dann auch tatsächlich einen "halben" Slot am Sonntag morgen um 10 Uhr (was ok war).

Individual versus group needs and where do I fit in?

The Joomla Day New England was the second Joomla Day I attended and the first where I gave a presentation. It seems that I hit the nail with my topic as there were lively discussions during and after my session and I was asked to write everything down.

So here it is ;-)

I consult and coach different kind of companies regarding their organizational structure and guide them to develop and implement necessary changes. Doing this I use the methods of Transactional Analysis (TA), a psychological theory, based on psycho-analysis and psychotherapy.

It is used in counselling, organization development, education and psychotherapy. There is a set of models which helps to understand why we think, feel and act like we do, to trace behavioural patterns and ways of thinking, reflect on these and learn to develop alternatives, that will lead to a change of the everyday (working) life.

I am not directly involved in the Joomla project nor do I have strong relations to many members, I just got in contact with some of them and, from my outside standpoint, I was looking with my TA eyes at the visible processes of the Joomla project.