Sukces - jak zwykle u nas - ma wielu ojców i zasłużonych, choć zwykle ani tych, którzy w trudach i znoju rodzili, ani tych, co rzeczywiste ponieśli zasługi. Nie ujmując zatem nikomu niczego, gwoli utrwalenia prawdy o nieprostych początkach i zachowania w pamięci zwłaszcza tych, po których jedynie drobne ślady gdzieś w gąszczu Internetu pozostały, bo radosne życie poprowadziło ich w inne z dala od Joomla! dziedziny, przypomnijmy pokrótce, co i jak było.
W ramach akcji "Zdobądź nowy zawód" parę lat temu została informatykiem. Z Joomla! zetknęła się przypadkiem przy okazji zlecenia - odwiedziła forum i już na nim została. Lubi wiedzieć "jak to działa?", dlatego zajmuje się głównie programowaniem (modyfikacje i nowe dodatki). Motto w pracy: wszystko da się zrobić. Pasja: konie.
Ron Severdia is a Creative Director of Kontent Design, a leading design agency 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, eBay, 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 is a member of the Kunena Forum team and he authored the Using Joomla book for O'Reilly Media. He is the founder of the Joomla-based Shakespeare site, PlayShakespeare.com and runs Kontent Extensions for Joomla.
Ole, 41 of Hiller?d, Denmark, works professionally as a Joomla! solutions provider since 2004. He joined Joomla at the project birth in 2005 and voluntered to help moderate the International forums and became local Danish Translation Coordinator. Was invited to help build the Joomla! Extensions Directory in late 2005, and enjoyed the many hours of serious work and fun at the JED Editorial Team until he retired in early 2008. He joined the Core Team in 2007 when invited to take on the position as Joomla! Translation Coordinator. Since then he has been very pleased to see the strength of a community driven project like joomla!, especially when a selfmanaged Translation Coordination Team succeeded in implimenting a new Translation Policy in autumn 2008.
In a Leading role of Internationalization, Localization and Translation Ole expects to see Joomla! create new subteams and resources so that Joomla! can be available to anyone - nomatter which language they may speak.