MSC Announcement

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The Bios (please list alphabetically)

Ilias Antonopoulos (aka eliasan) [Leader of the Documentation Team] Ilias is an IT professional who runs AlterMarket, a company specializing in Open Source Solutions for Business. He lives and works in Athens, Greece. He has a Master's degree on E-Commerce and a Bachelor's degree in Medical Technology. He discovered Mambo in mid-2004, long after creating websites the traditional way, using ASP, MS SQL Server, PHP, MySQL and HTML code. Mambo won his heart and soul. His public involvement with Mambo started when he created www.mamboportal.gr and www.mamboclub.net, the support sites for Mambo in Greece. He now administers both sites with the help of members of the Hellenic Mambo Translation Team (HMTT). Ilias is also the author of the Greek language book "Discover Mambo CMS".

Ric Shreves (aka Ricoflan) [Leader of the Advocacy & PR Team] Ric has been working with CMS-driven websites since 1999 and has built systems for a wide variety of firms, including BASF, Tesco, FPDSavills, CBRichard Ellis and Colgate-Palmolive. He was leading development of a proprietary CMS product on the .NET platform when he discovered Mambo in 2003. Inspired by the potential of Mambo, he quit the company he was working for and started Water&Stone, a web development firm specializing in Open Source content management solutions. In addition to working with Water&Stone, Ric is an IT journalist and Open Source advocate and is a frequent speaker at industry events. He currently lives in Bali, where he is pursuing his theory that an IT professional should be able to make a living anywhere in the world with a notebook computer and an Internet connection. So far he says, all he has been able to prove is that it is a beautiful theory...

Alain Schmalz (aka Mamboswiss) [Leader of 3rd Party Development Team] A French speaking Swiss national living in the Geneva area, Alain has a Master Degree in Laws and is also a Swiss Certified Tax Consultant. He is a veteran of several major international firms, including KPMG, and but has been running his own business for over a decade. Alain has been involved with IT for almost ten years and has built numerous sites for associations, small businesses, and friends. Mambo has been his preferred CMS for a couple of years. He currently pursues linguistic and semantic studies as they relate to search engines in general and to Google in particular. Alain is also undertaking the development of Mambo components based on his research.

Chad Auld (aka cauld) [Leader of Maintenance Team] Chad is a Data Warehouse ETL (Extract / Transform / Load) developer by day and an open source coder by night. He has been using a variety of open source products, including Linux, MySQL, Apache, PHP, and others, for the better part of the last five years. Chad is a MySQL certified professional, holds a Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice, and is 1 class shy of his Master's degree in Information Systems. He has been using Mambo for the last year and uses it to power his open source advocacy site - http://opensourcepenguin.net.

Martin Brampton (aka counterpoint) [Leader of Core Dev Team] During the last couple of years, Martin has returned to his first professional love, software development. Mambo was the first web tool he found that actually delivered on the promise to build a web site without arcane skills or even much hard work. He moved to exploring the limits of what was achievable, and also stepped in to rescue an orphaned Mambo plugin. The result was a steadily growing interest in the deployment of technology to meet the Mambo goal of power through simplicity. Apart from many years as a software developer, mainly on large projects in the financial sector, Martin spent a decade as head of IT for a professional firm in the City of London. Since 1998, he has worked as an IT industry analyst and commentator, and currently publishes a provocative column as "Devil's Advocate" at silicon.com. He has frequently written on the power and value of the open source model, and is delighted to be leading a team that is putting the theory into practice.

Akarawuth Tamrareang (aka Ninekrit) [Leader of Translation Team] Khun Krit lives in Bangkok, Thailand and is one of the leaders of the dynamic Thai Mambo community. That community is one of the most active international communities and, among other things, lead a Thai language localization of Mambo and put together the first event targeted exclusively at Mambo users and developers - Mambo on the Beach. Krit also runs Mambo training classes and is personally responsible for introducing a large number of people to Mambo. When not working on Mambo, he maintains a day job as an IT specialist; a role he has held for more than 5 years.

David Geller (aka Hazman) [Leader of the Moderation Team]

David found Mambo back in early 2003 while searching the Internet for a Salsa (music) website. The Mambo CMS name came up and caught his attention. His first experience with the program didn't go very well -- he couldn't get it to install! After a number of unsuccessful attempts to get it going, he dropped it and went looking for another portal program. About a year later, David came across Mambo again (this time Googling for a Salsa Nightclub!). He gave it another go, and this time he fared better. He's been involved with Mambo ever since. David's very active in the community forums and hopes that by sharing his knowledge he can help people to avoid some of the trial and error he has had to go through with Mambo. He has been working with HTML and CSS for about 4 years, has experience with ASP Portals, and is a true Mambo expert. He lives in Jeruslaem, Israel.

The Copy (please list alphabetically)

The Mambo Foundation is pleased to announce the re-formation of the Mambo Steering Committee (MSC) and the filling of the MSC's seat on the Mambo Foundation Board of Directors. Team Mambo is back and stronger than ever!

By way of introduction: Mambo development is driven by the community, with community members being broken up into 7 teams. The 7 Teams are:

• Advocacy & PR
• Core Dev
• Documentation
• Forum Moderators
• Maintenance
• Third Party Develepers
• Translation

After the fork of the codeset, the Teams were reformed in early October. The new CoreDev Team includes the following individuals:

• Martin Brampton
• Romilly Cocking
• Jim McKinnell
• Carlos Souza
• Chad Auld
• Adi Setiawan
• Ilias Antonopoulos
• Giorgio Nordo
• Shaoying Sun
• Travis Fraser
• Alain Schmalz
• Akarawuth Tamrareang

"The new team has a great deal of experience and excellent skills," notes Team Leader Martin Brampton. "We have been discussing priorities and methodologies and the current state of the code. We feel that, while a lot of the work we inherited is good, there is plenty of room for improvement."

Each of the 7 teams elects a leader and those leaders together form the Mambo Steering Committee (MSC). The MSC's role is to serve as the coordinating body for the Teams and to drive the development process, as well as to manage the related tasks of documentation and community relations.

Advocacy & PR Leader Ric Shreves says, "Comparisons with the old Team are going to be impossible to avoid, but we're not shying away from them as the new Team is first rate. The credentials are very solid. To name but a few, the gentleman running Documentation has written a book on Mambo, the man leading the Translation Team has already done one localization of the system and runs Mambo training in Thai, and the gentleman running Dev is very senior with excellent credentials and connections within the international PHP community."

"The new Team is distinctly different from the old in another important way. The new Team is more International and reflects better the user base of Mambo. Whereas the old Team was dominated by English speakers from Australia, UK, and the North America, the new Team has leaders from Switzerland, Thailand, Israel, Indonesia, and Greece, as well as from the UK and the USA. When you look at the Team members, you see people from all over the globe. This is a level of diversity the group never achieved before and it will shape the future of this program in a positive manner," Shreves added.

New Board Member

On Friday of last week, Martin Brampton was elected by the MSC to fill the empty MSC seat on the Mambo Foundation Board of Directors. The other members of the Board are: Peter Lamont and Justina Phoon of Miro, and Jim Begley of Productized.

"The Mambo Foundation Board now has one seat left open, which we hope to fill with a strategic member from the Open Source community," stated Ric Shreves. "As originally composed, the Board included 2 persons from Miro and 3 persons from outside. We are in the process of restoring the balance and hopefully providing some assurance for those who fear the Board may be dominated by one groups' interests."

The Mambo Foundation Board fills an administrative role handling primarily Mambo Foundation corporate matters. While the Board does not control the development decisions (those are made by the MSC), the Board does act in a consultative capacity for the MSC and is also involved in community outreach.