Jacobi: Joomla is a 100% volunteer non-profit with no paid staff
Robert Jacobi · 1146 How Joomla Pays Bills With $0 Revenue, Opensourced · Sep 13, 2018 · at 2:40
Robert Jacobi, president of Joomla, explains to Nathan Latka how the open-source project sustains operations without direct employee compensation.
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“Oh, everyone in Joomla has a real day job. So Joomla is a hundred percent volunteer, non-for-profit.”
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