Mr. Akarawuth Tamrareang

Location: Bangkok, Thailand

Position: Joomla! Bug Squad  - Joomla.org

Founder - Marvelic Engine Co.,Ltd

Board of Director - Opensource Matters Inc.

Web: JoomlaCorner.com , Akarawuth.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/joomlacorner

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,the Joomla Events Team and Mentor for the Google Summer of Code program

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.

Name: Mark Dexter

Location: Seattle, Washington, USA

Position: Production Leadership Team, Bug Squad Coordinator - Joomla.org

Web: dextercowley

Twitter: n/a

Mark is especially interested in the area of automated testing using PHPUnit and Selenium. Mark has found the Joomla community to be incredibly friendly and welcoming and is excited about helping to make Joomla even better.

In the Joomla! project, Mark is currently a Bug Squad Coordinator, a Development Coordinator, and the Administrator for the Joomla! Student Outreach Program (JSOP). He has been a moderator on the forums, a member of the Documentation working group, and the Administrator for the 2009 Google Summer of Code program.

He also has written four extensions. After retiring in 2007, Mark decided to learn more about open source software. After becoming the webmaster for a small non-profit organization, he discovered Joomla and started using version 1.5.2 in early 2008. He made the mistake of pressing the Help button and discovered that most of the help documentation hadn't been written yet.

So he volunteered to write documentation and has continued to learn about Joomla and try to contribute to the project. Mark started writing software in the 1970s on punch cards and, for 28 years, co-owned and ran a company that develops software for construction companies. During this time, he did everything from design and development to support, training, and documentation.

Name: Johan Janssens

Location: Diest, Belgium

Position: CEO - Timble and co-founder of Joomla!

Web: Personal blog of Johan Janssens

twitter http://twitter.com/johanjanssens

Johan is CEO of Timble and co-founder of Joomla  an award-winning open source content management system (CMS). Johan has developed web solutions and tools for some of the largest international organizations operating around the world.

At Joomla Johan was Project manager and Lead Developer during the developement of Joomla 1.5 and he held a position on the board of directors of Open Source Matters, Inc. He is still considered to be the largest contributor to the joomla codebase. In October 2008 Johan was recognized as “Most valuable person for Joomla”

Today, Johan spends most of his time working on Nooku, an innovative open source platform for Joomla that provides integrators with ready-made high quality extensions and developers with a simple yet powerful API.

As native Belgian. Johan earned his master’s degree in Computer Science and Interactive Media from GroepT University in Leuven, Belgium, he also has a bachelor’s degrees in Electronics and ICT.

Name: Emmanuel Danan

Location: Aix en Provence, France

Position: FLEXIcontent Free CCK for Joomla lead developer

Web: http://www.flexicontent.org/

Twitter:@vistamedia

Emmanuel started FLEXIcontent?s project and developement at the end of December 2008, he has been the unique coder till the beta4 release, beginning of November 2009. He has been involved in the French Joomla! community for a couple of years already. Co-administrator of joomla.fr (45.000 users), author of multiple guides and tutorials, he is running a team of consultant specialized in complex Joomla portals development, mostly for the public sector (internet/intranet/extranet).

Member of the Board of Directors of the French Joomla User Association, he also holds a master degree in international business and finance (Paris XI University) and his previous job (in another life) was export sales manager of an industrial group manufacturing fiber optics.

Name: Mr. Mitch Pirtle

Location: NewYork, USA

Position: CTO @sounday_music, co-founder Joomla! Spacemonkeylabs, contributor MongoDB

Web: http://www.spacemonkeylabs.com/

Twitter: @mitchitized

Mitch Pirtle is a serial entrepreneur, and a past winner of the unofficial "Founder's Award" from the CMS Association.

When you read his history, you'll get a taste of what that means: After serving as a Core Developer for Mambo CMS (and Lead Web Developer for The N/MTV Networks, he helped co-found Joomla!  and its not-for-profit organization, Open Source Matters. He is the Founder and CEO of Spacemonkey Laboratories; Co-Founder of Ivivio; Founder of Buzzwerks Inc; oh, plus he helped co-found the New York Joomla User Group.

Mitch has planted many seeds along his entrepreneurial path, and he's also set an example for others to follow by nurturing those efforts into fully blossomed businesses and organizations, employing and engaging millions of active participants in the communities he helped establish and grow.

Mitch also contributes to the MongoDB project, and is authoring several books.

name: Peter Martin

Location: Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Europe

Position: Community Leadership Team - Joomla.org

Web: www.db8.nl

Twitter: @pe7er

Like millions of others, Peter's computer career began in 1984 with the Commodore 64. Ten years later he got hooked to the Internet during his studies Marketing and Mass Communication. When plain HTML wasn't sufficient anymore he learned PHP/MySQL. In 2003 Peter discovered Mambo CMS but only got actively involved in the Joomla community in 2005 when he started helping other users at Joomla forum.

Peter has been a forum Moderator since 2006 & Global Moderator since 2007.Peter is an avid music collector, especially vinyl records, he loves art house movies and facts (trivia). Peter has his own business db8 (founded in 2005) which offers Joomla website implementation, support and development of Joomla extensions.

Name: Nattawat Woranopakul

Location: Thailand

Position: Country Manager, HTC Thailand.

Web: http://www.htc.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/nattawatw

I am working for HTC Thailand, if you're looking for one of the best Smartphone who always provided innovation and good services in Thailand, please sure that HTC is the best http://www.facebook.com/HTCthailand

MyHTC is the part of HTC Thailand service content, it's useful and value added service to all HTC users

Designed by us, personalize by YOU

Name: Kittiwat Manosuthi

Location: Bangkok,Thailand

Position: CEO Pacific Net Venture

Web: HostPacific.com

Twitter: @kittiwat

Kittiwat started HostPacific.com in 2000. The leading Thai hosting company grew to be in the top 3 hosting company in Thailand.

During its 11 years of history, HostPacific.com has managed to be the pioneer in bringing top quality services to the hosting industry in Thailand, including the first company to offer domestic hosting, virus scanning, advanced email filtering, etc.With the move toward Cloud, HostPacific.com is now the first to bring full Cloud hosting technology to the Thai market.

Name: Siwat Chawareewong

Location: Bangkok,Thailand

Position: Managing Director - mInteraction

Web:http://www.minteraction.com , http://www.siwat.com

Twitter: @siwat

Siwat Chawareewong, together with his team formed up mInteraction, a digital arm of GroupM, in May 2007 when he took the role of Managing Director, minteraction.

7 years before mInteraction, Siwat's team at Siam2you drove up their web portal to the top, delivered hundreds of web projects to both private and government clients, and pioneered the mobile content business in Thailand before get the company listed in Market of Alternative Investment (MAI). His latest position at Siam2you was VP - Interactive Solutions.

Siwat believes, Success in life is measured by the number of days that a person is truly happy.

name: Jimmy LIVE

Location: Thailand

Position: HTC Thailand.

Web:http://web.me.com/mozeal

Twitter: @Jimmy_LIVE

I am working for HTC Thailand

Name: Paphada Amornuratkul

Location: Bangkok,Thailand

Position: RedRank Co.,Ltd. , AdWords Qualified individual From Google

Web: RedRank.co.th

Twitter: @Goople

ผู้เชียวชาญด้าน Search Marketing ไม่ว่าจะเป็นการค้นหาใน Search Engine อย่าง Google และ Social Network อย่าง Twitter, Facebook และ YouTube โดยการใช้คอนเซ็ปต์ “ค้นหาปุ๊บ เจอเราเลย” ของบริษัท Redrank จำกัด

ปภาดาเคยมีผลงานการเขียนหนังสือออกมาแล้ว 3 เล่มคือ Google AdSense (www.SuccessAdSense.com ) ,  Google webmaster tools เครื่องมือลับฉบับ google และหนังสือเล่มล่าสุด คือ iMarketing10.0 อีกทั้งยังเป็นนักเขียนให้กับนิตยสารต่างๆ อีกมากมาย นอกจากนี้ยังเป็นกรรมการสมาคมผู้ดูแลเว็บไทย (www.webmaster.or.th ) และสมาคมพาณิชย์อิเล็กทรอนิกส์ไทย (www.thaiecommerce.org) อยากรู้จักเธอให้มากกว่านี้ ต้องลองเสิร์ชใน Google ด้วยคำว่า “สวย รวย เก่ง ฉลาด"

Name: Mr. Supachai Teasakul

Location: Bangkok, Thailand

Position: Joomla Translation WG - Joomla.org, DOCMan Translation, LaiThai Developer Team, Project Manager - Marvelic Engine Co.,Ltd.

Web: Marvelic.co.th

Twitter: http://twitter.com/supachai_chai

เข้า ร่วมทีมลายไทย (Mambo LaiThai) เพื่อช่วยพัฒนาภาษาไทยให้กับ Mambo CMS, คอมโพเน้นท์ DOCMan, Mambo Board และคอมโพเน้นท์อื่นๆ รวมถึงศึกษาและพัมนาเทมเพลต, คอมโพเน้นท์ออกมาแจกฟรี มากมาย

จากนั้น ได้เข้าร่วมพัฒนา Joomla! ด้วย โดยได้พัฒนาออกมาในรูปแบบของ Joomla! LaiThai เพื่อการใช้งานที่รองรับการทำงานกับภาษาไทย ได้ร่วมพัฒนาทั้ง Joomla! LaiThai, DOCMan และส่วนประกอบอื่นๆ ของ Joomla! เพื่อให้ใช้งานได้กับภาษาไทย

Name: Mr. Pisan Chueachatchai

Location: Bangkok, Thailand

Position: Joomla Translation WG - Joomla.org, LaiThai Developer Team, Products Manager - Marvelic Engine Co.,Ltd.

Web: ColorPack.net

Twitter: http://twitter.com/lungkao

เข้า ร่วมทีมลายไทย (Mambo LaiThai) เพื่อช่วยพัฒนาภาษาไทยให้กับ Mambo CMS, และคอมโพเน้นท์อื่นๆ รวมถึงศึกษาและพัมนาเทมเพลตออกมาแจกฟรี มากมาย

จาก นั้นได้เข้าร่วมพัฒนา Joomla! ด้วย โดยได้พัฒนาออกมาในรูปแบบของ Joomla! LaiThai เพื่อการใช้งานที่รองรับการทำงานกับภาษาไทย ได้ร่วมพัฒนาทั้ง Joomla! LaiThai และส่วนประกอบอื่นๆ ของ Joomla! เพื่อให้ใช้งานได้กับภาษาไทย