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 Oliver Ratzesberger (fxstein) Oliver Ratzesberger is an IT Director in Silicon Valley. Born in Austria, he started programming during the early 1980s. With more than 15 years of experience in C and C++ mainly on UNIX and Windows platforms, he moved into large scale data progressing during the mid-1990s and became a specialist for extremely large scale SQL databases. After starting a hobby website for motorcycles in 2006, he began contributing to various open source projects. Today, Oliver enjoys working on Joomla-based projects and is a co-founder of the Kunena Project.
 Matias Griese (Matias) Matias Griese currently works as a freelance programmer specializing in algorithms, optimization and security. He started programming in C and C++ in 1991 and in PHP in 1998. His interest in content management systems started in 2005 and he later discovered Fireboard in 2008. He worked for over six years at StoneSoft, specialists in firewalls and the Linux kernel. Matias is a co-founder of the Kunena Project and is currently working on tight integration of the Kunena Forum with other software such as Community Builder, JomSocial, JoomFish, JoomSuite, and others. He helps his wife with her baby wrap shop located at http://www.wearababy.com.
 Ron Severdia (severdia) Ron Severdia is a Creative Director 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, 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 recently redesigned the new look of the Joomla family of websites. He is currently writing a Using Joomla book for O'Reilly. He is the founder of the Joomla-based Shakespeare site, PlayShakespeare.com.
 Noel Hunter (noelhunter) Noel Hunter is a freelance consultant, combining skills in IT and media to help clients create dynamic, data-driven content management systems across multiple platforms. His work includes the camelcityContent Joomla extension, and development of Joomla-based websites such as credithotline.com, housecalls.com, and thevenusproject.com. Having published PHP and MySQL-based open source scripts as early as 1996, Noel brings a depth of experience to the project. His work with the Kunena team currently concentrates on minor code improvements, testing, debugging, and enhancements to the translation process and documentation wiki.
 Roland Furtmyer (roland76) Bio coming soon.
 Jónatan Núñez (JoniJnm) Jónatan Núñez is a student of computer engineering. He started programming in mIRC scripting in 2007, several months after he bought his first computer. His first page was in HTML, without PHP. Later a friend told him about Joomla, Trying to change some code for a finish, he learned (and continues to learn) how Joomla works. Now, he helps create plug-ins for Kunena and also develops independent projects as an chat, searcher, page of games, etc. He believes that we must work hard on Kunena, but it will be the forum for Joomla.
Kunena Forum Moderators Sven Schultschik (LDA) Sven Schultschik has been a student at the KIT (Karlsruher Institut of Technologie) since 2006 and studies electronic and informatic engineering. He became part of the Student Council and had his first contact with Joomla 1.0. He started to work with Joomla in the Student Council Web maintance team and began to learn PHP. Since June 2008, he has been a member of the JoomTools.de team and become an active developer. He just began with a new team to build the German community site NCGames. He also knows HTML, CSS, basic Javascript and Gimp. He has worked on several Joomla projects like http://fachschaft.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de, http://omega-rappelz.com, http://seelenhauch-band.de, among others. His work with the Kunena Team involves forum moderation, developing the Kunena birthday module, and building some templates for both the community and his own use.
 Florian Dal Fitto (xillibit) Flo is a graduate of a French university in network and telecommunications. He learned PHP, JavaScript, Java, and C/C++. He set up a website in computer science and has used Joomla since 2005, but started to using CMSs with Mambo just before the fork. He has started by helping some users on the official French forum for Jommla http://forum.joomla.fr and now has decided to help the users on Kunena. His work on the Kunena team involves forum moderation, developing the Kunena birthday module, polls, and building some templates for both the community and his own use.
 Dragoljub Zečević (@quila) Born in Serbia, Dragan came to Switzerland in 1992. He's worked for over 10 years at TDM as a high-technology specialist. For six years now, he's been the director of his own company, Mega System, as an IT specialist. He became interested in content management systems in 2004 with Mambo and then Joomla. He has used it for hobby projects as well as various Joomla-based sites for companies in Switzerland like BD Serti, Star Limousine Service, and FimmoSwiss. He knows HTML, CSS, Photoshop and is still learning PHP, MySQL and Javascript. He's a moderator on the Kunena forum, developer of the Kunena login module, and now is working on a template to share with the community. |
