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Position: Board Member
Location: Georgia, USA
Website: www.alledia.com
Steve Burge is the CEO and founder of Open Source Training. Originally from Portsmouth in the U.K., he lives in Atlanta in the U.S.A.. In 2005, he founded Alledia.com which grew into a leading provider of services for Joomla.
In 2008, Steve started the first regular Joomla classes. From Atlanta the classes grew in popularity and are now taught across North America and the United Kingdom. In 2009, the business expanded to become Open Source Training and now encompasses Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress.
Steve is an active member of the CMS community. He is an Editor at the Joomla Extensions Directory, helped found the Drupal Atlanta User Group and now runs the Atlanta Joomla User Group which has grown to two monthly meetings and several hundred members. |
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Position :Board Member
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Javier Gomez lives in Barcelona and works in the Golferichs civic center where he shares the tasks of teaching and managing cultural events. He has been very involved in the Spanish speaking Joomla! community in the forums, translation and the organization of off-line meetings and events.
He became active in the community in 2007 by organizing the first national Joomla! meeting in Barcelona and has participated in the organization of other events in different cities and countries. He a passionate about the Joomla! community. |
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Position: Board Member
Location: Belgrade, Serbia
Website: www.sekuritatea.com
Marko works as security consultant for a USA based company in Belgrade. His focus of work has been penetration testing and generally making paranoid remarks all around. He has been a member of Free Software Foundation Europe for three years now as a Core team member and Freedom Task Force member. He is also BSD advocate and coordinator of Serbia BSD user group. He has been involved with Joomla! from day 0 as Serbian Coordinator but has retired from that position in September of 2009. He is a undergraduate student of Law faculty in Belgrade specializing in the international law and diplomacy. |
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Position: Board Member
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Website: new-web-consulting.co.za
Jacques (jconsultingza) lives in scenic Cape Town, South Africa. He is the owner of New Web Consulting, which focuses on building and supporting web sites on the Joomla! CMS. He first got involved with Joomla! at the start of 2007 when a client required a Content Management System for their new web site. After some research, he decided on Joomla! and he’s never looked back!
Jacques recently became involved with a new section of the Joomla forum, called Trending Topics, where debate on current topics is encouraged. |
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Position: Board Member
Location: Aachen, Germany
Website: www.rdbs.de
Robert Deutz, born 1966, after successfully finishing his study electrotechnics, worked for several system houses as a Project engineer and founded Robert Deutz Business Solution in 2002. Since then he is occupied with solutions for medium-sized companies and works as consultant for various companies. The Internet is on the top of his agenda for 15 years now and he discovered Mambo CMS beginning 2004. The incomplete documentation of Mambo was the reason he started writing the Book about CMS Mambo that was released in 2005. Since the start of the Joomla-project Robert supported the project, he has released many extension for Joomla! and he is one of the creators of the beez teemplate. |
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Position: Treasurer
Location: Nebraska
Website: www.huelsmann.us
Dave Huelsmann has served as a senior executive running clinical laboratories in Nebraska, New Hampshire, Illinois, California, Texas, and New Mexico. A veteran of Vietnam, he served as a Navy Corpsman and laboratory technologist for a Seabee battalion there. Dave has been responsible for gross revenue budgets exceeding $66 million and FTE's in excess of 166. He has managed medical technologists, PhD's and MD's in his 40 years of service to the healthcare industry. He is a past president of the Kiwanis Club of Omaha Westside and served on this board for 6 years, during which time he developed and maintained their web site. He has also served as treasurer of the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science in New Mexico. Dave's interest in computers started with Tandy Radio Shack Model I, III and IV where he converted a number of programs to operate on those systems written in C. Dave is now retired and devotes his time to Joomla! and to building Joomla! websites.
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Position: Secretary
Location: Washington DC
Website: www.picnet.net Ryan (cozimek) is the CEO and founder of PICnet Inc, a Web development and innovations firm providing a variety of services for non-profit and public sector organizations worldwide. With client-bases in Washington DC, New York, and San Francisco, Ryan often finds himself travelling, but his current home base is in Washington DC where PICnet has its headquarters. Introduced to Mambo back in 2003 by one of his staff’s developers, Ryan quickly saw the great ability of the CMS to aid non-profit organizations. After writing two Slashdot stories on the creation of Joomla, Ryan quickly became more heavily involved in the Joomla community. He now manages the non-profit board on the Joomla forums, and frequently gives speeches in the non-profit community in the US related to the use of open source and Joomla within organizations, and created Joomla Tuesdays, a free gathering of Joomla users and developers across the US in the non-profit sector. Ryan has a B.A. in Communications from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and a Masters of Public Policy from UCLA as well. |
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Position: Board Member
Location: Thailand
Website: joomlacorner.com
Akarawuth (known as Krit and JoomlaCorner on the forums) is a member of the Joomla! Bug Squad, served as a a mentor for the Google Summer of Code™, the Thai Translation Team, and has organized Joomla! Days and other Joomla! events. He has been active in the Joomla! Project since it was founded. He is President of Mavelic Engine Co., Ltd and President of Open Source Education and Development Association. In 1990, Akarawuth started his career in software development, from programming inventory system, production formula application, Novell netware client-servers installation as well as providing support services to different IT system in the private sector. Then in 2003 he became fully involved in Open Source movement as a developer. He has been highly active ever since.
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