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At this time, the following people comprise the Joomla Leadership Team. This is a dynamic team made up of the leaders of the Joomla Production and the Joomla Community Workgroups. You can access the mailing lists of these teams using the following links: Brad Baker
Born and raised in South Africa, now living in Australia's biggest city, Sydney. Brad has years of experience in the web hosting industry. As well as running his own local Web hosting and design business, he has been working for Rochen (www.rochen.com) for a number of years. He's been associated with the project since 2003, and brings his good humor and expertise to the ever-growing Joomla fold. Like many of us, he has succumbed to the hazards of the job and, after years of wearing out keyboards, his handwriting is illegible and spelling deplorable without the use of a spellchecker. Isidro Baquero
Born and living in Seville, south of Spain, Isidro met web technologies for the first time while studying telecommunications engineering in the early 2000s. He was so cautivated by the www that he finally left his studies to work full time as a web freelancer (site building, webmaster, community manager, english to spanish translations). Related with Joomla since Mambo days, he owns a blog about Joomla in spanish (www.gnumla.org). He started collaborating actively with the Joomla project during early 2010, when joined the moderator team as local moderator for the spanish forum. After that, he continued to increase his involvement, joining JPeople community managers team and the JCM as Spanish editor during 2010, and becoming JPeople Communications Manager during 2011. Also, during the summer of 2011, he joined the Joomla Tweet Team and the Spanish Translation Team. Chris Davenport
Born 1958, Chris first began programming on a DEC PDP8 in 1975. He gained a degree in mathematics in 1979 and, after a brief spell as a mathematician in the aerospace industry, got sucked into the rapidly growing computer industry. Chris has developed software at all levels from assembly language upwards, on everything from microprocessors to mainframes, and has learnt through hard experience the value of good, disciplined commenting and thorough documentation. "Documentation is as much a part of the finished product as the code itself." He discovered Mambo in 2003 while searching for a content management system for an intranet project. Although impressed by the product itself, he felt that the lack of documentation was a major weakness. Rather than complaining, he set about trying to fix the problem by writing his own and was soon recruited to the Documentation Team. He switched to Joomla as soon as the split occurred and is now responsible for developer documentation. Christophe Demko
He was born in 1965 and now lives in France. He is currently an assistant professor of computer sciences at the University of La Rochelle (France, Europe). He passed his MA in 1989 and his Ph.D. in 1992. Influenced by the practice of judo from early childhood, he has endeavoured to apply one of its principles in the service of the free software community "Best use of energy and mutual welfare" (Jigoro Kano). He created or improved several extensions for Joomla:
He also contributed to Joomla's documentation (Hello World J!1.6 and Developing a Model-View-Controller Component for Joomla 1.6). Last, but not least, he now collaborates on the development of Joomla 1.6. Mark Dexter
Mark is especially interested in the area of automated testing using PHPUnit and Selenium. Mark has found the Joomla community to be incredibly friendly and welcoming and is excited about helping to make Joomla even better. Matt Lipscomb
Matt Lipscomb is a designer and developer focusing completely on the Joomla CMS. Hailing from Gadsden, Alabama, Matt's former background is hotel development and management with a focus in online reservation systems. Since 2006 he has been building commercial websites based on the Joomla platform and in 2008 opened up Joomla Web Design by USAFL. Matt manages the Joomla Extensions Directory and co-manages the Joomla Resources Directory. He has served the Joomla community through his work on the Community Site Showcase and the Joomla Community Magazine as well as assists in many other areas of the official sites and directories. Peter Martin
Like millions of others, Peter's computer career began in 1984 with the Commodore 64. Ten years later he got hooked to the Internet during his studies Marketing and Mass Communication. When plain HTML wasn't sufficient anymore he learned PHP/MySQL. In 2003 Peter discovered Mambo CMS but only got actively involved in the Joomla community in 2005 when he started helping other users at Joomla forum. Peter has been a forum Moderator since 2006 & Global Moderator since 2007. Milena Mitova
With more than 8 years of online marketing experience and a broad set of technical, creative and project management skills to complement her Joomla website-building skills, Milena creates high-impact websites and specializes in SEM (search engine marketing), analytics, PPC (pay-per click advertising), and landing page optimization. She owns Complete Website Care and works as an online marketing manager for FalconStor Software, Inc. She also voulnteers as an author and team member for Joomla Community Magazine. Sam Moffatt
Sam, 20, of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, is the youngest member of the development team. He is currently studying IT and has been working with Mambo (now Joomla) since early 2004. His work came to the fore with the Google SOC and his update system, which will be further developed and included in Joomla. Sam also authors the JAuthTools project, which provides LDAP support for Joomla 1.0 and 1.5. Olaf Offick
Olaf is an Internet Engineer (M.Sc.) working in Galway, Ireland. He is the founder of Learn Skills, a company providing high quality Learning Management Systems (LMS / LCMS / VLE) and Educational Materials to businesses, schools and government organisations. In the Joomla community, Olaf is working in the Joomla Global Moderator Team and the Joomla Forum Administrator Team. Paul Orwig
Paul Orwig was born in 1958 in Houston, Texas. He has over 15 years of professional internet and web technology experience, and now works as a freelance web solutions provider. Sander Potjer
Twitter: @sanderpotjer
Sander’s Joomla passion started back in 2005 by building a Joomla website for his rowing team. Next to his studies Architecture at Delft University of Technology Sander is a Joomla freelancer working on all kinds of Joomla projects. The involvement with the Joomla community started back in 2008, as co-founder of the local Dutch community www.joomlacommunity.eu. In a short period they established a solid community with an active team of volunteers. The volunteers contribute by providing news, translations, documentation, forum support and by organization the Joomla User Groups (14 in a small country!) and the yearly Dutch JoomlaDays. He is chairman of “Stichting Sympathy,” a Dutch foundation founded in January 2011 that covers all Joomla activities and promoting the Joomla project in The Netherlands. Omar Ramos
Omar is currently the webmaster at Imperial Valley College (IVC) in Southern California. In that role he's used Joomla as the primary platform for developing web applications for the college tying in disparate systems such as Sungard Banner and Microsoft Active Directory into the college's web presence. Currently, he is working on migrating the college's main website to Joomla from its commercial CMS system and finishing up his second year of teaching part-time for the college. Before beginning work at IVC, Omar was finishing up his bachelor's degree and performing freelance work for local businesses in the area. Over the last few years Omar has contributed to Joomla as part of the Joomla Bug Squad and is happy to begin helping with the Production Leadership Team.
Wendy Robinson
Wendy has been a member of the Joomla community since 2005. She began volunteering as a moderator in the forums in 2006, eventually joining the Global Moderators and Forum Administrators team. In addition to her forum roles, Wendy has been on various teams such as the Community Workgroup, The Joomla Resources Directory team, and the marketing team. She has managed the Joomla Shop and served a 2 year term as an Open Source Matters Board Member from 2008 to 2010. Ron Severdia
Ron Severdia is a Creative Director of Kontent Design, a leading design agency in the San Francisco Bay Area and has directed interactive branding projects—from websites and brand identities to interactive campaigns—for clients such as HP, Verizon, Electronic Arts, Yahoo!, Visa, Walmart.com, eBay, and Apple. His prior experience includes stints as a Senior Designer and then Creative Director at Young & Rubicam, DDB, Glow, and Landor Associates. Fluent in several languages, he worked for 7 years in Europe, where he won a Euro-Effie award for his creative work with Schweppes. Ron has been using Joomla since 2006 to build sites for companies, large and small, including a worldwide branding site for Citibank. He is a member of the Kunena Forum team and he authored the Using Joomla book for O'Reilly Media. He is the founder of the Joomla-based Shakespeare site, PlayShakespeare.com and runs Kontent Extensions for Joomla.
Andrea Tarr
Andy started programming when she was a librarian back in the late 70s. She took home a self-study guide to the IBM System-32/34 and wrote the first computerized circulation system in the state of New Hampshire. She became deeply involved with Joomla as part of the Google Summer of Code 2009 and wrote the accessible Administrator template Hathor. Now Andy uses Joomla with her clients because it gives clients a maintainable website that is easy to customize and extend. She specializes in understanding the customers' business needs and using her analytical & programming skills to fulfill those needs. She is the author of PHP and MySQL 24-Hour Trainer. |
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
Location: Seville, Spain, Europe 
Location: Shrewsbury, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Location: La Rochelle, France, Europe
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Location: Gadsden, Alabama, USA
Location: Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Europe
Location: Long Island, NY, USA
Location: Toowomba, Australia
Location: Galway, Ireland, Europe
Location: Parker, Colorao, USA
Location: Weesp, The Netherlands, Europe 
Location: El Centro, California, USA
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Location: San Francisco, CA
Location: Belchertown, MA