By Crystal Harris

I've been involved in the Joomla community less than a year. Less than a year!!! It's unbelievable. My first event was Joomla Day Chicago in 2014. Since then, my life has changed so utterly and completely - and I wouldn't have it any other way.

When I attended JWC14 I found a community that I wholeheartedly felt at home in. This is the first time that has ever happened to me. Since then, I have thrown myself into the community and contributing where my skills would be most helpful, and making friends I know I'll keep the rest of my life.

Without Joomla, I wouldn't be traveling the world right now, building my own business, or sharing good times with the best community I've ever met. Thanks, Joomla, and happy birthday. :)

By Carlos Olivares

Joomla has been my motive for travel around the world. Without Joomla maybe I will travel but it's not the same: It Is absolutely amazing to meet people offline you have already known online. The experience working together to have a good style of life is my gasoline to keep forward.

Talk face to face in this amazing JDays events and JWC ones is really a great experience.

 

I am thankful for this big community and the volunteers around the world, and really appreciate the hard job that the Leaders do for all of us.

 

Thanks Joomla, Thanks Community!

By Radek Suski

My life would be totally different today. I probably wouldn't be able to run my own company together with my wife Sigrid. And so we wouldn't be able to spend so much time together. 

I couldn't meet so many great people from around the whole world. Some of them became my friends. And I don't mean "friends" like Facebook friends. I mean real friends. 

I would probably also never attend so many Joomla! events around the world and meet so many different cultures, countries and different people.

I would have possibly never learned the power of a real, vibrant community nor participate in such a community.

I maybe would have also never learned to work in a team and participate with other people in different projects. 

And who knows, maybe I would never understand the true meaning of Open Source software.

And we would maybe never enrich the community with a great, free and Open Source extension for a great, free and Open Source CMS. 

On the other hand, given my involvement in many areas in the Joomla! project and sometimes very high related level of stress, I maybe would have more hair today ;)        

By Davide Tampellini

I found Joomla during one of those terrible task assigned by your relatives: "Since you are a programmer, can you please create the site of the hotel I'm working in?"Too bad I was a desktop developer at that time, so I had no experience in web design.

My dad suggested me to use a CMS, but I was too stubborn and I wanted to do everything on my own. After banging my head against every wall, I followed his advice and took a look at this Joomla-thing.

Now I'm currently making a living with web development and Joomla!, so my dad was really right, as he loves to remind to me. Almost every day.

By Sam Suresh

I teach Joomla since its first version 1.0. In the past 10 years you grown up handsomely and so are we. In Malaysia we often call you 'Jom Lah' (which means 'come together' in Malay). Happy Codeday Jom Lah!