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"The versions of 1.6 and 1.7, still currently in the directory, will be removed as of April 30, 2012." ... really?

I like this "outreach to new developers under a Joomla Student Outreach Program (JSOP)" . i can help to run this program at university in thailand.

Yes, well I think an important point is that leaders have to lead. None of us really know how this will turn out or whether it will achieve the goals or just be or if it will be just rearranging the deck chairs. In the end the only way to find out is to lead, one way or another, with good critical (not in the sense of negative but in the sense of asking hard questions and thinking deeply) substantive discussion, but then finally to make a decision, fish or cut bait as the saying goes. Jacques thanks for that comment, which in fact was not at all clear from previous discussions that I have seen. That is a good example of something that might usefully be made explicit in whatever the final enabling document is. That's the kind of useful progress that can be made through allowing people to ask difficult, challenging questions and raising thoughtful concerns in broad daylight and then responding to them with information or further thought. So, in fact, that is an example of leadership and something I hope we will see more of. In the end, this is a decision for leadership to make and we really shouldn't pretend otherwise. The whole point from my view should be to reduce distractions from the core tasks of making and supporting great software rather than create new ones.

Hi Paul, Yes, fully understand and support proposed simplifications, as I already wrote multiple times in the relevant threads :) Thanks again.

Thanks for organizing the sessions as well as for the post. I've "participated" remotely, and it worked pretty well, with feedbacks being read out from Twitter hastag and ustream comments. One thing that came also out several times in the morning was to simplify the administrator experience and update the admin interaction. The UX site at http://ux.joomla.org/ is great for moving forward on this aspect hopefully.

I am super excited to see this being live streamed to the rest of the world. Kudos to those involved in making this happen! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! See you all there Friday morning!

There will be streaming live coverage of the Roadmap Meeting. Details are here: http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1510-roadmap-meeting-streaming-live.html There's a chat associated with it, but we'll have an easier time monitoring twitter #jroadmap

At first I have to say that only 2 options is not democratic enough for our beloved Open Source CMS. I want to stress out that by either options we tend to go to sth as Joomla 7.0 .....(does it resemble Drupal or what?) I want to express another option.As we know Ubuntu uses the .04 for LTS support.Also TikiWiki uses .4 as LTC support. I don't say ,we should go for that "4" number but we should understand that from 1.7 to 2.5 we miss a lot of versions. We can go like that: 1.7-1.8-1.9-2.0 (give a certain codename to 2.0 such as Google's use of sweets--Cupcake,froyo,gingerbread,ice cream and add the Long Term Support) then continue to 2.1-2.2 Instead of using numbers we could use certain names from a category. So we can have the production Joomla and a DEV Joomla.For example in tikiwiki, they use 6.4 as LTS 7.2 as production (stable) and 8.x as development. In order NOT to confuse with numbers we should go to codenames and use the Alpha,Beta,RC1,RC2 Prelease and Final prior to every LTS (in my case 2.0) and only on that to just have a codename.

Absolutely. It's a difficult balance of priority and emphasis for the target audience. I can tell you that after visiting many "first time" joomladays their audience is very different to that at some of the more "established" events.

*still clapping*