Joomla! Events Team
The Joomla Events Team mentors community members who have already organized several Joomla related events. Using their knowledge and experience they mentor local event organizers and provide support during the preparation and operation of the event.
Alex Kempkens
To say that Alex is addicted to Joomla is somewhat true. He started working with Mambo in 2003 and invented his first extensions at that time. The Joom!Fish (formally known as MambelFish) extension he invented is one of the most oft-used extensions in the world of Joomla. In 2004, Alex joined the Core Team, starting as a developer, and later as an organizers and other responsibilities.
In 2006, he took over the responsibility of the Joomla Events Team and helped to increase worldwide events to become one of the biggest community movements in the open source world. In addition to leading the Events Team, he is an active speaker at events all over the globe.
Henk van Cann
Henk is one of the community contributors since the first days of Joomla. He started working with Mambo back in 2005 and focuses operation in his local community on organizing Joomla Days, organizing the HollandOpen Conference, and the professionalising application of open source, standards and content in projects.
In April 2006, he organized the first Joomla Day for Belgium and the Netherlands with the help of local community members. Seven months later, he organized by the second Dutch and Flemish Joomla Days which presented more than 35 sessions over two days with 180 visitors per day. The third and most recent Joomla Days he organized was in April 2008 with a team of 10 people, lasted two days, with 45 sessions, and was attended by 250 international visitors per day.
Henk joined the Joomla Events Team as a mentor back in 2007 and is supporting events in the Europe.
Pete Coutts
Pete is an active member in the Swiss Joomla Community and an administrator of their community portal since the beginning of Joomla. He got started back in 2003 using Mambo when getting involved with MamboPortal.ch; first as a moderator and later as an admin. Besides working on the Joomla Events Team as a mentor for the European region, he is member of the Translation Working Group and manages the Swiss naitive de_CH team. With his team, they also support a centralized German-speaking news portal and various other portals.
Pete has actively supported the regional community and presented Joomla at various expos and conferences as well as he's involved in the upcoming Joomla Day Switzerland. The events are one of the main things Pete loves—especially the opportunity to meet people.
Matheus Mendes
Matheus started playing with Mambo back in 2003 (Mambo 4.0.x) because his boss, thankfully, was looking for an emerging CMS. Since then, he has been programming extensions and owns the biggest Joomla Web site in Brazil (http://www.joomla.com.br).
Matheus is a former coordinator of the Translation Working Group in Brazil and used to be a member of the Q&T Team. Regarding events, he helped organizing three community meetings in Brazil. Two of them were a two-hour session at the biggest free software event in South America—the International Free Software Forum (FISL, in Portuguese) and a Joomla Day in São Paulo last year. He joined the Joomla Events Team in 2008 and supports the South American region in increasing the number of Joomla Days—even beyond the borders of Brazil.
Ryan Ozimek
Ryan is the man of the Penguin. Besides his commitment to the Joomla Project, he is on the Open Source Matters board and working for his own company, Picnet. Within this company, he has organized various open source-related PinguinDays. Ryan is was actively involved in the first Joomla Day in the USA as well as many other events like Pizza, Bugs, and Fun parties in the USA.
Ryan joined the Joomla Events Team as mentor for the North American region. He supports the Joomla Project at conferences as a speaker and support person.
Wendy Robinson
Wendy is a very active member in the Joomla Community. She has been involved since November 2006, started moderating shortly thereafter, and is now a global moderator/administrator on the Joomla Forums. Wendy is also a member of the Open Source Matters board.
Wendy organized the first large scale Canadian Joomla Day on June 14, 2008, in Vancouver, BC and looks forward to working with the local community for more successful Joomla events in the Vancouver area in the coming years. She joins the Joomla Events Team to help support and organize Joomla Days in North America.
Akarawuth Tamrareang
In 2003, Akarawuth became fully involved in the open source movement as a developer. He initiated the Web site MamboHub.com as a community for Mambo enthusiasts. When the Joomla Project was created, he and LaiThai team were there to contribute and drive Joomla even further with funding for a new regional portal www.joomlacorner.com. Currently, Akarawuth and his team are the only group in Thailand working closely with the Joomla Project. They work with various Project teams including the Translation Working Group (Thai/Lao), the Joomla Bug Squad, and the Joomla Events Team.
Akarawuth and his team have organized various events and Joomla Days in Thailand already. They are very active in consulting with other teams in the region and help whenever they can to provide suitable support and share knowledge with the local community. Akarawuth joined the Joomla Events Team in 2008 and works primarily in the Asian region.