Alex Kempkens, is Co-Founder of the Joomla project and author of the Joomla Developer Handbook. As inventor of the JoomFish multilingual extension he offers one of the most successful extensions in the Joomla sphere with over one million downloads since it was released.
In his business life he focus on innovative concepts, methodologies and open standards with his corporate consulting agency Think Network. Based in Munich, Germany he consults small as well as big organizations world wide. His concepts and analysis help during the adoption of Open Source Technologies for their individual solutions since more than 15 years.
Alex focuses in his presentations not only on the technical factor but especially on the business side of projects, extensions and new inventions. "The spirit of open solutions in project management and corporate investments will be one of the most important drivers for business in the future. Open Source solutions such as Joomla have proven the power and capabilities in brand building as well as commercialization of the concepts they are based on."
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since 2005 Founder of EDVAS | www.edvas.de
since 2008 Blogger of Bloggerschmidt | www.bloggerschmidt.de
since 2009 Writer for t3n | www.t3n.de
since 2009 Lecturer of GFU Cyrus AG | www.gfu.net
2009 Book release „Joomla!-Templates - Design und Implementierung“
German, Franzis-Verlag | www.franzis.de
2010 Blank Joomla Template | www.blank.vc
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I'm a co-founder of the Joomla project and was with the Mambo project before that since Feb 2003. I contribute to the core code of Joomla and also speak at many Joomla Days and conferences around the world.
I was a civil engineer for 10 years before moving into IT in 2000, finally starting my own Joomla-based consultancy in 2005.
My company web site can be found at www.newlifeinit.com and my technical Joomla blog can be found at www.theartofjoomla.com for all to enjoy.
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Twitter: @AndrewEddie
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With her communication office - Der Auftritt - (Eng. the scene) webdesigner Angie Radtke, designs and realises targeted communication solutions for internet and print. She specialized in marketingoriented, barrierfree Internet presence, on customer demand with the use of Open Source Content Management Systems Joomla!. She proves appealing designs, accesibility and the use of CMS can unite fluently.
Her emphasis is to develop designs for customers they can really identify with, for a wide range of branches. Angie Radtke does not only handle all technical issues, when needed she also develops Corporate Design for her customers or she implements the available CI in her work.
Her consultancy contains all technical, conceptional and operational ranges. For Angie this "Fullservice" is a prerequisite to accomplish the goal set: optimal combining Creativity and technical options for every requirement and to provide tailor-made solotions.
Much time is spent on the development of the Open Source Content Mangement System Joomla!.
Meanwhile she leaves her desk more often to spread her knowledge. Teaching, seminars and workshops are common practice for the much asked speaker on the item "Barrierfree Webdesign".
Angie Radtke is married and has two children. She lives and works in Bonn (Germany). On "the Net" she can be found at www.der-auftritt.de.
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Beat is lead developer of Community Builder (CB), Joomla's most popular extension on the extensions directory, and CBSubs, a very advanced membership management software.
CB and Beat have been around since before Joomla. Beat has been actively helping strengthening security of the few last versions of Joomla 1.0 and was a member of Joomla’s former security team.
Beat is located in Switzerland, and his background is in Internet security and web applications. He holds a Master in EE, with specialization in CS, and a PhD in CS. He spent some exciting years doing research at Bell Laboratories, and actually found out 15 years later that it was same time than Nick was in the same building! What a small world!
Since those years spent in research, Beat is a serial entrepreneur. As such he had one of the first corporate websites in Europe in 1993 already. In 1994 and 1995 he was doing a few conferences on a new technology and its broad usability: The web, at CERN and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology together with Robert Cailliau, one of the two pioneers of the world-wide-web and a few more university fellows.
In last years, Beat has been passionate about online communities on the social web, and together with Nick, they built the largest community of online community builders around on Joomlapolis.com where they recently celebrated 300,000 members.
Beat is Beat’s first name, and while being an advocate of fully public communication for public matters, he also enjoys his privacy.
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Website URL: http://www.joomlapolis.com/
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Community Builder, beyond social sites
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