The Joomla! Production Leadership Team (PLT) is pleased to announce the addition of a new member. We welcome Marco Dings to the team. Marco will be managing and helping to document the workflows within the project, helping with the work on Joomla future releases and adding further frontend knowledge to the PLT.

The PLT is responsible for leading and coordinating the development of the Joomla CMS and the Joomla Framework. This includes releasing new versions, fixing bugs, adding new features, translating and creating documentation.

The addition of Marco brings the total of current PLT members to eleven:

  • Chris Davenport
  • George Wilson
  • Javier Gomez
  • Jessica Dunbar
  • Marco Dings
  • Robert Deutz
  • Roland Dalmulder
  • Tessa Mero
  • Thomas Hunziker
  • Tom Hutchison
  • Viktor Vogel

Marco Dings

After a long professional career in technology Marco Dings started his own business in software and consultancy using the Joomla CMS. Marco is currently co founder, and director of Viryagroup. Marco enjoys porting over the processes and best practices from embedded and consumer electronics software development to the world of the web and CMS.
Marco co-runs the usergroup JUG-zuidoost in NL, contributed to the joomla magazine, was a member of the Joomla Code Style Code Sprint in Madrid and has also contributed Bug Fixes to Joomla in the past. As a self-confessed architect he is looking forward to contributing to the Joomla future releases.
Marco loves new technologies and likes to talk on a wide range of subjects from design, front-end development, programming to processes and project management. This has included giving several well received talks to the Joomla community in recent years, including in using Multilingual, LESS and SVGs.

You are invited to congratulate Marco at the following forum topic: https://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=704&t=888765