Hi Max, can you tell us about your self and your role in the Virtuemart project?
I am 33 years old, married and have a little daugther and live in Dresden. Actually I studied engineering design and started developing for the Fraunhofer Institut as student assistent proving the concept of GPGPU. Later I wrote a program in java for calculation of screws and bolts. Due the economy crysis 2008 I lost my marketing partner and needed an online shop. I started to setup pages in joomla and so I came to Virtuemart.
My role was at begin just a developer who needed an online store to sell his goods. I was the only one working on the new version (vm1.2) and became dissapointed by the rest of the leading team. There was no programmer leading anymore. So some other team members and me started a fork JMart to have the possibility to rewrite the code as we programmers think it should be. After some months Sören, the former leader, asked us to takeover the lead of virtuemart. We accepted the offer and so I became a project leader of virtuemart. My main interest was in this time to develop Virtuemart 1.5, which is now released as Virtuemart 2.
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Hi Amy, can you tell us about your self and your role in the Joomla community?
I am a long time community member, having joined the community in November 2005. Professionally, I have worked in the IT industry for over 25 years having started with mainframes and IBM technologies, client server GUIs, data warehousing and Web development. Most of my experience has been in "the enterprise" environment working with software like SAP. One of the accomplishments I am most proud is having built the University of Nebraska's data warehouse, integrating data historically, organizationally, across subject-areas, for 20 years of student, budget, financial, and human resource data.
My involvement in the Joomla community has varied. Like many others, I started contributing in the forums. I was frustrated that none of my questions were answers and started noticing unanswered questions by others where I had already learned that lesson. Increasingly, I found myself getting involved and helping people. It was very satisfying and it helped me learn. I also participated in the documentation team, the Bug Squad, and worked on the Communications Team for a long time. I started All Together, As A Whole as a place for community to reconnect following the GPL talks. I am active on Twitter and easy to approach, always happy to meet new folks.
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Hi Parth, last time we talked, you were busy upgrading SocialAds and JBolo - now you have a new website soon to be released. Can you tell us about it?
Yup.. A lots been happening & btw another round of cool releases of SocialAds, Invitex & J!MailAlerts are just a few weeks away !
The main purpose of the site is getting the best Deals in Joomla to the Joomla community. The site aims to serve both the Joomla User community as well as the developer community. Extension developers are looking for ways to reach out to the huge base of Joomla users but its pretty tough to get to everyone out there. We do a lot of cross promotions with Partners, Advertisements, Affiliate systems & what not to reach the userbase. But its tough to get to everyone. When i got an email from a lady complaining that she had just missed a real sweet deal on Techjoomla because she didnt know about it, i thought there had to be a way for users to easily get updates about such opportunities.
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Hi Marco, tell us about yourself!
Marco is my name and I come from Brazil. I am a passionate web developer and have worked with Joomla for a few years.
You have designed something really beautiful - Minima, can you tell us what Minima is?
Minima is an admin template built on open source that you can use with Joomla! 1.6. I have a vision of how an admin template would look like and I started experimenting with it. The idea is that an admin template must be "minimalist" and it should be very easy to do things. A little innovation is also welcome. Back-ends should not be boring!
It appears that you have lots of things going on, you are also involved in Molajo - what is Molajo?
Molajo is an application built on top of the Joomla framework. We want to give a strong Joomla foundation that you can build on. You could say molajo is a "distro" but without the Joomla CMS (framework only). It comes with a few additions and a much "lighter" Joomla. Many fixes and improvements are also there (as Minima!).
What plans do you have for this year?
Right now I am very impressed with my job. I work at Fantasy Interactive as a developer and we have many exciting projects. Has been there for 2 months now (http://fi.com).
I have plans for Molajo too. New things I want to build: a completely new installation process, a component builder guide and a molajo package builders so you can choose what you want to have in your molajo package.
Molajo and minima are very exciting projects that I like to spend some of my free time (when I have it). I also want to take it easy the next months and hope that Sweden will be warmer soon (summer)!
