Joomla! Core Team
Brad Baker
Location: Sydney, NSW, AU
Timezone: GMT +9
Position: Sites & Infrastructure Coordinator : Forum Admin
URL: www.joomlatutorials.com
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.
Michelle Bisson
Location: Quebec City, Canada
Timezone: GMT -5
Position: Fundraising Team Lead
URL: www.jazzisoft.com
Michelle Bisson is one of the founding members of Joomla. Prior to that, she was invited onto the Mambo Core Team in early 2004 after having been active in the Mambo community since mid-2003.
She partners with Levis Bisson in a Web development company, Jazzisoft International Inc., which specializes in custom programming for the Quebec government and developing Joomla based sites for the municipal government, businesses, and non-profits. Their company is also known as POPcliQ in Quebec, Canada. They speak fluent English and French and have started to offer their services internationally.
Her involvement in the past was coordinating the User Documentation Team. Currently, she is leading the Fundraising Team, representing Joomla at various events and involved in organizing Joomla events in Canada.
Chris Davenport
Location: Shrewsbury, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Timezone: GMT
Position: Documentation Working Group Coordinator
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.
Andrew Eddie
Location: Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Timezone: GMT +10
Position: Development Coordinator
URL: newlifeinit.com
Civil engineer turned full time Web developer, Andrew has been cutting code since the mid-1980s. He has participated in several open source projects, notably managing dotProject for a time and leading the development of the Mambo content management system from 2003 before moving to the Joomla Project in 2005.
Anthony Ferrara
Location: Bridgewater, NJ, USA
Timezone: GMT -5
Position: Development Coordinator
URL: joomlaperformance.com
Anthony, now 24, was brought up with computers. His father, a former developer for AT&T, taught Anthony how to program from a very early age (some accounts are as early 4 years old). He decided to take a break from computers after high school and studied mathematics in college. He has a diverse background including a private pilot's license, EMT, and is a state-certified firefighter. He now is a professional PHP developer who believes in the power of open source and community involvement
Alex Kempkens
Location: Munich, Germany
Timezone: GMT +2
Position: Events Team Lead
URL: ThinkNetwork.com
Coding is fun; software design and architecture even more. This is what fascinated Alex about computers ever since he got his first Amiga. In his business life, Alex is an IT strategy consultant and runs his own company. Outside of his family life, he decided to participate in open source projects. The way these projects "tick" and the opportunity to to work together with great teams around the globe is as fascinating as the first 'Hello world'. Always looking for fun and some opportunities to code, he'll always stay with open source.
Louis Landry
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Timezone: GMT -6
Position: Communications Team Lead : Developer
URL: jxtended.com
Louis, 28, of New Orleans, Louisiana, works in Web development and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Louisiana Tech University. His first experience with computers was playing on a 286 with Basic at his father's office. Louis has programmed in many languages, ranging from low level x86 assembly to managed languages like Java and scripting languages like PHP. He was a founding member of his university's robotics team. Louis is a car nut, and enjoys working on them in his spare time.
Sam Moffatt
Location: Toowomba, Australia
Timezone: GMT +10
Position: Development Coordinator
URL: pasamio.id.au
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.
Ole Bang Ottoson
Location: Hillerød, Denmark, Europe
Timezone: GMT +1
Position: Translations Coordinator
URL: www.ot2sen.dk - www.joomla.dk
Ole, who describes himself as an "extension freak" has been a long-serving member of the content team for the Joomla Extensions Directory (JED). He still enjoys keeping the JED up to speed. He also administers a local Danish Joomla support site and works professionally as a Joomla solutions provider.