A brief story about friendship
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Luckow, Stephan
CMS Garden is a not-for-profit association run by currently 12 open source content management systems. This talk will show you what is possible when you work together instead of competing each other. The story about CMS Garden is a story about trust and friendship. Before CMS garden we (as people from different cms communities) thought we were competitors. There was no real comparability between the cms and the most often heard argument was: don't take that $CMS. Take mine (because it's the best). After the first joint event (CeBIT 2013) we knew it's not true. There is no best CMS in the world. There are only good tools for the needs of a project. Sometimes my CMS. In other projects yours CMS. That event changed everything. Later in 2013 we founded a not-for-profit association and our journey began. This Lightning Talk wants to share some of the magic moments and try to invite other open source communities to join the garden and adopt the idea of collaboration.
 Hello everyone. Thanks for having me. Thanks for taking time for my brief story about friendship. Because it's my first time here at FOSTA, yeah, shame on me. Give me a few seconds to introduce myself. My name is Stefan Ducu and I was born in the late 60s. I started doing my first IT business in the mid-19th. At this time we built static HTML websites with, I don't know if you know it, BB edit or DreamBeaver and tested it with Netscape Gold and such stuff from the early years, from the internet. Later on I found software called content management systems and at this time we are able to build dynamic websites. I tried several from the CMS and after some experience I had a place to stay and it's called Struppal. I don't know if you need, if you know it, Struppal CMS. Doing stuff with CMS was a time I've realized that contribution to open source is not only contribution in code. It's more about find your place to contribute. Thank you, volunteers for FOSTA. I was the organizer of the Drupal meet-up in Berlin for several years. I was the organizer of Linux tag for Booth for Drupal and later on in 2010 I have maybe too much time. I'm a candidate for the member of the board for the German Drupal association. Today I work for my own company for development of things and I'm the president of the CMS garden. That's enough for me. What is CMS garden? We started as an initiative, a marketing initiative for the most active content management systems and today we have more than 10 members from different CMS in our CMS garden association. Let me rewind the time a little bit. It was in the mid of the zero years. As I told you before, I was a proud community member of Drupal and I found a situation inside the whole of the CMS. We had an inner circle and we had the outer one. We are kind of competitors. This picture is taken from Linux tag in 2007 or 2008. We had neighbors from type 3 and they had an orange booth and we are in blue and we have blue balloons. Because type 3 community is, we stay later on the fair and we decorated the orange booth with our blue balloons. The next morning we had friends. No, we kicked type 3 as well. The feeling of the time. Maybe you know what I mean. In 2012, a German hosting provider invites us and other different communities to have a joint booth and to spread the word about open source on his booth. If you recognize, we had WordPress between Drupal and type 3. But we leave this fair as friends. We shared our t-shirts. At the same time, we had a great talk to Wolfgang Frank. Wolfgang Frank is the organizer of the open source park at CBIT. He is a true supporter of the idea of open source. He invites us to have an own booth at CBIT with a shared CMS joint space. That was a great idea because we want our own booth without a sponsor logo up there. But booth at CBIT is more about 50,000 euros. The content management associations won't spend so much money. We had to collect money. Our idea was to print a book. We called it Garden Feeble or CMS gardeners guide. It sells ad space inside. 10 minutes. At the end, we got so much money that we can pay for a booth and rented 10 host rooms for the ambassadors. We rented a conference space. It's a little bit dark. We had an 80 square meter booth at CBIT. Every day after the fair, we came together and eat fresh meals, making our day work. It happens that a group of guys looks over the shoulder of a jumler guy. They talk about the concept of the difference CMS. After CBIT, we had new friends. More than 50,000 euros, eight different CMS, 50 ambassadors, 10,000 from the booklets, and one crazy competition, which CMS snores loudest. In 2013, we founded our CMS garden association and decided to rule over. This one is taken in 2014. Bigger, louder. About 120 square meters. Up to 10,000 from the books. 50 or 60 ambassadors. Many talks to different event organizers from other fairs and conferences. At the end of 2014, we had more than 25 events which CMS garden was on site. Because of the core team, there are less than 15 active people, we decided, okay, public relations or marketing initiative for the most active open source content management system, check. What else can we do? We found new target groups at our fairs and events. I have to look what is in English. Federal Office for Information Security asked us to help writing the second edition from the CMS security study. We know the guys from initiative S. It is a project in Germany for making websites safer. We are invited from World Hosting Days. It is a trade fair for the biggest trade fair in the world for the hosting industries. We talked to the target group. We heard that there is a need for securing the CMS outside in the world. Our next focus was to switch to what can we do as CMS communities to make the Internet safer place because of the missing updates from lazy people who won't update their CMS. We partnered with ECHO. ECHO is the association for the Internet industry, I think. We wrote a grant application for Cyvecos. In long, it is secure websites and content management systems. We accepted in 2016 from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. What is Cyvecos? Three parts. One part is the scanner from outside to look after known security bugs. The second one is a plugin for a deeper look from inside the content management system. The third one is a project we call it a host service. You can imagine the host service. Every time a security update for one of the CMS was released, Cyvecos gives more security firewall rules to the hosting partners to secure the lazy and not updated CMS. Because it was public money, it is public code if you are interested in what we are doing with maybe your money, if you are from Germany, then go to Cyvecos. What is next in 2019? At this time, one of our friends from the Jumler world is in Chicago on the CMS security summit from Google. It is leading a cross CMS working group for GDPR. We partnered with CloudFest and built up in Hackathon. If you never ever be at CloudFest, it is a great event in March in Europa Park Rust. You can join us at the Internet world at Expo. At the end of the year, save the date. It is our fifth, fourth, I have no idea, maybe the sixth edition of the CMS conference in Essen. For me, it is important that you understand nothing from this could be happened if there is only one community. We have to join forces. We have to know and recognize that we are not competitors. We are competing with each other. We are now friends. We took the chance to be more together. For me, it is important to talk to you here at Boston because in the last years, we had our border and our German language. We want to share the idea of friendship with other countries, other communities, and in other languages. I hope you understand the idea. The competitor next to you, maybe it is your friend.
 Hello everyone. Thanks for having me. Thanks for taking time for my brief story about friendship.  Because it's my first time here at FOSTA, yeah, shame on me. Give me a few seconds to  introduce myself. My name is Stefan Ducu and I was born in the late 60s. I started doing my first  IT business in the mid-19th. At this time we built static HTML websites with, I don't know if you  know it, BB edit or DreamBeaver and tested it with Netscape Gold and such stuff from the early years,  from the internet. Later on I found software called content management systems and at this time we  are able to build dynamic websites. I tried several from the CMS and after some experience I had a  place to stay and it's called Struppal. I don't know if you need, if you know it, Struppal CMS.  Doing stuff with CMS was a time I've realized that contribution to open source is not only  contribution in code. It's more about find your place to contribute. Thank you, volunteers for FOSTA.  I was the organizer of the Drupal meet-up in Berlin for several years. I was the organizer of  Linux tag for Booth for Drupal and later on in 2010 I have maybe too much time. I'm a candidate for  the member of the board for the German Drupal association. Today I work for my own company for  development of things and I'm the president of the CMS garden. That's enough for me. What is CMS  garden? We started as an initiative, a marketing initiative for the most active content management  systems and today we have more than 10 members from different CMS in our CMS garden association.  Let me rewind the time a little bit. It was in the mid of the zero years. As I told you before,  I was a proud community member of Drupal and I found a situation inside the whole of the CMS.  We had an inner circle and we had the outer one. We are kind of competitors. This picture is taken  from Linux tag in 2007 or 2008. We had neighbors from type 3 and they had an orange booth and we  are in blue and we have blue balloons. Because type 3 community is, we stay later on the fair  and we decorated the orange booth with our blue balloons. The next morning we had friends. No,  we kicked type 3 as well. The feeling of the time. Maybe you know what I mean.  In 2012, a German hosting provider invites us and other different communities to have a joint  booth and to spread the word about open source on his booth. If you recognize, we had WordPress  between Drupal and type 3. But we leave this fair as friends. We shared our t-shirts.  At the same time, we had a great talk to Wolfgang Frank. Wolfgang Frank is the organizer of the  open source park at CBIT. He is a true supporter of the idea of open source. He invites us to  have an own booth at CBIT with a shared CMS joint space. That was a great idea because we want our  own booth without a sponsor logo up there. But booth at CBIT is more about 50,000 euros.  The content management associations won't spend so much money. We had to collect money.  Our idea was to print a book. We called it Garden Feeble or CMS gardeners guide.  It sells ad space inside. 10 minutes.  At the end, we got so much money that we can pay for a booth and rented 10  host rooms for the ambassadors. We rented a conference space. It's a little bit dark.  We had an 80 square meter booth at CBIT. Every day after the fair, we came together  and eat fresh meals, making our day work. It happens that a group of guys looks over the  shoulder of a jumler guy. They talk about the concept of the difference CMS. After CBIT, we had  new friends. More than 50,000 euros, eight different CMS, 50 ambassadors, 10,000 from the  booklets, and one crazy competition, which CMS snores loudest. In 2013, we founded our CMS garden  association and decided to rule over. This one is taken in 2014. Bigger, louder. About 120  square meters. Up to 10,000 from the books. 50 or 60 ambassadors. Many talks to different  event organizers from other fairs and conferences. At the end of 2014, we had more than 25 events  which CMS garden was on site.  Because of the core team, there are less than 15 active people, we decided, okay, public relations  or marketing initiative for the most active open source content management system, check.  What else can we do? We found new target groups at our fairs and events. I have to look what is in  English. Federal Office for Information Security asked us to help writing the second edition from  the CMS security study. We know the guys from initiative S. It is a project in Germany for  making websites safer. We are invited from World Hosting Days. It is a trade fair for the biggest  trade fair in the world for the hosting industries. We talked to the target group. We heard that  there is a need for securing the CMS outside in the world.  Our next focus was to switch to what can we do as CMS communities to make the Internet safer  place because of the missing updates from lazy people who won't update their CMS.  We partnered with ECHO. ECHO is the association for the Internet industry, I think.  We wrote a grant application for Cyvecos. In long, it is secure websites and content management  systems. We accepted in 2016 from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.  What is Cyvecos? Three parts. One part is the scanner from outside to look after known security  bugs. The second one is a plugin for a deeper look from inside the content management system.  The third one is a project we call it a host service. You can imagine the host service.  Every time a security update for one of the CMS was released, Cyvecos gives more security firewall  rules to the hosting partners to secure the lazy and not updated CMS. Because it was public money,  it is public code if you are interested in what we are doing with maybe your money, if you are  from Germany, then go to Cyvecos. What is next in 2019? At this time, one of our friends from the  Jumler world is in Chicago on the CMS security summit from Google. It is leading a cross CMS  working group for GDPR. We partnered with CloudFest and built up in Hackathon. If you never  ever be at CloudFest, it is a great event in March in Europa Park Rust. You can join us at the  Internet world at Expo. At the end of the year, save the date. It is our fifth, fourth, I have no  idea, maybe the sixth edition of the CMS conference in Essen. For me, it is important that you understand  nothing from this could be happened if there is only one community. We have to join forces. We have  to know and recognize that we are not competitors. We are competing with each other. We are now friends.  We took the chance to be more together. For me, it is important to talk to you here at  Boston because in the last years, we had our border and our German language. We want to share  the idea of friendship with other countries, other communities, and in other languages.  I hope you understand the idea. The competitor next to you, maybe it is your friend.
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