I was one of those folks who presented at OpenCa.mp and who helped facilitate Matt and Nacin's attendance at JWC13. I had a motive for both of them, but I hope this time around I got it right.

All of the open source CMSes combined, with generous rounding up, account for about 30% of the Web. That's both a big number (time for self-congratulating, OSS world) while also a small number (seriously, people are running non-OSS based CMSes?). I've learned an incredible amount from our own Joomla community when I was President of Open Source Matters and meeting our community at events. However, I lived in a bubble. I spent most of my energy focused on solving problems that was likely faced by our OSS brothers and sisters in the WordPress world.

Then, there was the miss on any collaborative opportunities. Why not have a leader from one OSS community share their story to another OSS community? Why not combine marketing efforts to express our OSS values to the world, encourage hosting providers to work in the best interest of their users, and more?

OSS communities often spend incredible amounts of time searching internally for answers when they can find them across the internet (or as was the case for Nacin and I, down the hallway). My hope is that Matt's keynote at our Joomla World Conference can spark some awesome cross-project pollination. What does that look like exactly? I'm not sure, but in the open source spirit, it's a itch I want to scratch.

If you're a WordPress local community leader and are interested in chatting, drop me a line on Twitter at @cozimek.

There's too much goodness wrapped in each of our communities to not explore what we might be able to achieve together.