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Plone Development Team

People working on the development of Plone, but not necessarily as SVN committers.

There are 193 members in this team.

Alan Runyan

Principal, Enfold Systems

Location: Houston, TX, USA · IRC nickname: <runyaga>

Co-Founder of Plone and President of Enfold Systems, Alan Runyan is originally from New Orleans, LA and loves himself some good cookin' and music — pillars of existence peoples from New Orleans loves. "Python on every desktop" is his vision.

Alec Mitchell

Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA · IRC nickname: <alecm>

Alec is an independent Plone consultant and core developer working on a variety of projects. He is the release manager for Plone 2.5 (though Hanno did all the real work). He loves Plone so much that he is willing to develop entirely inappropriate projects on top of it.

Alex Clark

Principal, ACLARK.NET, LLC.

Location: Bethesda, MD, USA · · IRC nickname: <aclark> · Personal home page

Plone Consultant

Alexander Limi

Google, Inc.

Location: San Francisco, CA, USA · · IRC nickname: <limi> · Personal home page

Alexander Limi is one of Plone's original founders, and combines the kind of good looks, intelligence, sensitivity, and raw animal magnetism that only come from writing his own biography. He works at Google in Mountain View, California. Limi is the all-hands person in the Plone project, and is also responsible for keeping the user experience and visual layout consistent and easy to use — as well as herding the cats known as the Plone community.

Andreas Zeidler

zitc.de

Location: Berlin, Germany · · IRC nickname: <witsch>

well, what can i say? i'm an independent IT and software consultant living in berlin, germany. i've started working with and developing for zope in 2000, and recently became a plone core developer, i suppose... :)

Antonio Sagliocco

Absract

Location: naples · IRC nickname: <kalymero>

Abstract co-founder. Working on Plone since 2003.

Balazs Ree

Greenfinity, LLC.

Location: Budapest, Hungary · IRC nickname: <ree>

Zope and Plone consultant, programmer, founder of Greenfinity, LLC.

Ben Mason

Location: Central London

Ben is the director of Sharkbyte Studios, a web development company in Central London. Sharkbyte specialises in developing open source content management systems.

Bernhard Buehlmann

CEO, 4teamwork, Inc.

Location: Bern · · IRC nickname: <buehlmann>

Initiator of the first Plone sprint in February 2003 in Berne, founder of the plonegov.ch and plonegov.org foundations for enabling eGovernemt to profit from the flexibility and ease of use of the best tool on earth for creating sophisticated web applications - Plone.

Christian Scholz

Managing Director

Location: Aachen, Germany · IRC nickname: <MrTopf> · Personal home page

I am a blogger, podcaster, videoblogger, Python/Zope/Plone programmer and Second Life resident.

Christoffer Torris Olsen

Service Manager, Jarn

Location: Oslo, Norway · · IRC nickname: <magnon> · Personal home page

Chris currently works as Jarn's Service Manager. Still in his young years, he strives to know a little about everything, and handles many tasks. Outside work, Chris spends most of his time in politics, or playing electric bass. He has a HS degree in music, and is doing a (part-)part-time study in economics.

Cornelis Govert Adriaan Kolbach

Informaat

Location: Kingdom of he Netherlands/Royaume des Pays-Bas · · Personal home page

As a consultant Human Factors and Web Technologies, I'm an ongoing mission to help businesses to design products their clients really like to use. With knowledge about different fields as diverse as visual design, interaction design and front end programming, I support multi disciplinary teams to help them to optimise their results.

Daniel Nouri

Independent

Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands · IRC nickname: <nouri> · Personal home page

Daniel is an independent software consultant and Plone developer.

David Siedband

Location: Marin, CA · IRC nickname: <siebo> · Personal home page

David works with environmental and conservation groups to empower them with open source tools to support collaboration and information management.

Dorneles Tremea

CEO at X3ng and Software Engineer at PloneSolutions

Location: Garibaldi, RS, Brasil · · IRC nickname: <deo> · Personal home page

Dorneles Tremea was responsible for the Brazilian company X3ng before he started as a developer at Jarn (previously known as Plone Solutions). He is a strong and solid developer, and has an almost uncanny ability to adjust to any type of development task. In addition, he has done a lot of work on keeping the multilingual side of Plone up to date. Outside work, he spends time with his daughters and wife. -- by Limi

Florian Schulze

Location: Alsfeld, Germany · · IRC nickname: <fschulze>

I'm an independent IT freelancer/consultant and Plone core developer since version 2.1.

Geir Baekholt

Managing director, Jarn

Location: Tønsberg, Norway · · IRC nickname: <baekholt> · Personal home page

Geir Bækholt is managing director of Jarn (the Norwegian Plone consultancy formerly known as Plone Solutions). He is has been part of Plone since its inception, and does both software development and organisational work and manages the multinational team of Plone core developers that make out the Jarn crew. He arranged the 2006 Archipelagosprint and assisted in the planning of the Plone Conference 2007 in Naples.

Godefroid Chapelle

Manager, BubbleNet

Location: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium · IRC nickname: <__gotcha>

Freelance consultant. Active member of Zope and Plone community since 2002 : contributions to Plone, Zope 2 and 3, Archetypes,...; participation to more than 20 sprints. Lead of membership committee of the Plone Foundation Lead of the KSS (Ajax in Plone) effort.

Gregoire Weber

Location: Switzerland

* Products for Plone: - CMFCollection - CMFEditions * Computer Languages: - Python - C/C++ - Modula II - various Motorola Assembler * General Skills: - Coding :-) - Building software architectures

Hanno Schlichting

Developer, Jarn AS

Location: Tønsberg, Norway · · IRC nickname: <hannosch> · Personal home page

Hanno Schlichting is one of the core developers of Plone. Formal roles include being the head of the internationalization team, helping out as the assistant release manager, having served on the framework team and coordinating and organizing the bug trackers. More informally he is known as the 'Plone janitor' - keeping the code and tests clean and has served for a long time as Plone's 'Merge monkey' - integrating all new changes from development branches and merging bug fixes to all relevant release branches.

Harald Friessnegger

Software Engineer, Webmeisterei GmbH

Location: Dornbirn/Austria · · IRC nickname: <fRiSi>

Harald has graduated in "iTec – Information and Communication Engineering" at Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences in Dornbirn, Austria in 2005. From November 2005 - Feb 2006 he worked for Lovely Systems Austria (lovelysytems.com) and is now doing Plone and Zope development for the Webmeisterei GmbH (webmeisterei.com) which is a spin off of lovely systems. His hobbies are skiing, mountain biking, swimming and ping-pong ;-)

Helge Tesdal

CTO, Plone Solutions

Location: Oslo, Norway · · IRC nickname: <tesdal>

Helge Tesdal is the Chief Developer in Plone Solutions, and has a Master degree from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Earlier employers include Sun Microsystems and Copyleft Software. He is known for exceedingly elegant solutions to complex problems, and is responsible for most of LinguaPlone and the new indexing algorithms developed for Plone.

Ian Bicking

Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA · · IRC nickname: <ianb> · Personal home page

Python web developer; see http://blog.ianbicking.org for my writing.

Jean-Paul Ladage

CEO, Zest Software

Location: Hoogvliet - Netherlands · IRC nickname: <jladage>

Director of a Zope / Plone development company called Zest Software, Jean-Paul continuously seeks for innovative challenges in web technology.

Jens W. Klein

Software Architect and Managing Director of BlueDynamics Alliance - Klein & Partner KEG

Location: Innsbruck, Austria, Europe · · IRC nickname: <jensens>

Maintainer and/or Release-Manager of a bunch of Products around Plone, like Archetypes (1.4), ArchGenXML and PloneMall. Core-developer and component-developer of Plone related applications.

Jeroen Vloothuis

Expertise leader/Pareto

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands · · IRC nickname: <jvloothuis> · Personal home page

Jeroen is the expitise leader for the Plone group at Pareto. This job title involves guiding collegues, managing the group and programming. He also enjoys working on KSS and other Plone components.

Jodok Batlogg

CEO, Lovely Systems GmbH

Location: Dornbirn, Austria · IRC nickname: <jodok>

Who am I? Together with Godefroid Chapelle I'm co-leading the i18n activities in the Plone project. I'm also developer in the Gentoo net-zope herd and keeping the plone,... ebuilds up2date. Since 2004 I'm member of the Plone Foundation board and co-leading the i18n activities. In my sparetime :) i'm managing my company Lovely Systems GmbH. We're developing plone since the very beginning.

Junyong Pan

Location: Shanghai, China ·

My company is ZOpen Technologies(http://zopen.cn). ZOpen is a Zope/Plone consulting company located in Shanghai, China.

Kai Diefenbach

iqplusplus

Location: Erfurt - Germany · · IRC nickname: <diefenbach> · Personal home page

Kai is an independent Plone consultant and developer. Since the Baarn sprint in February 2007 he has commit rights to the Plone core.

Laurence Rowe

Object Vibe Limited

Location: Manchester, UK · IRC nickname: <elro> · Personal home page

Python/Zope/Plone consultant

Malthe Borch

Zeitmaschine

Location: Copenhagen · IRC nickname: <malthe>

Freelance Zope-developer.

Martijn Pieters

Senior Developer, Jarn

Location: Tønsberg, Norway · IRC nickname: <MJ>

A veteran web developer, Martijn hails from The Netherlands but now lives in beautiful Norway. His dozen years as a pro HTTP slinger include Zope Corporation (Fredericksburg, VA, USA), Pareto (Zoetermeer, NL), and now Jarn (Tønsberg, NO).

Martin Aspeli

Location: London, UK · IRC nickname: <optilude> · Personal home page

Martin is a member of and the spokesperson for the Plone 3.0 Framework Team, primary author of the Plone 3 portlets infrastructure, content rules, various other features, lots of documentation, and manages a fine balance of bugs caused and bugs fixed. If he ever had any spare time, he'd play one of his five guitars, record some music or see a friend or two.

Matt Hamilton

Technical Director, Netsight Internet Solutions Ltd

Location: Bristol, UK · IRC nickname: <HammerToe>

Matt has been involved in the Zope and Plone community since 2000, and organised one of the first Zope 3 sprints outside the US in Bristol, UK in 2003. He has attended the past four Plone conferences in Europe and USA. He is a founding member of the Zope UK association, and was one of the inaugural directors of the Plone Foundation. He also attends Plone and Zope development sprints regularly and often seen at the Snow Sprint in Austria doing his impression of a human snowball. Netsight are also a member of the ZEA Partners network. Matt is responsible for the technical consulting and training that Netsight undertakes. He was the technical consultant for various large commercial intranet projects, and specialises in integration and performance optimization.

Matthew Wilkes

Location: Bristol, UK · · IRC nickname: <MatthewWilkes> · Personal home page

I am a Plone freelancer based in Bristol, in the south-west United Kingdom, where I am also studying for a masters in Computer Science.

Maurits van Rees

Developer, Zest Software

Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands · · IRC nickname: <maurits> · Personal home page

Maurits van Rees has finished his study Informatics in Rotterdam. He is working at Zest Software. Plone projects he is working on are the eXtremeManagement project management tool, Poi, intelligenttext. irc nick: maurits

Michael Dunlap

Location: Seattle, WA

I'm a web developer for the University of Washington - Catalyst Client Services.

Mikko Ohtamaa

Red Innovation Ltd.

Location: Oulu, Finland · IRC nickname: <Moo^^^^^>

Currently having fun a with a Plone start up. Check my company site www.redinnovation.com and my Linked In profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ohtis

Myroslav Opyr

Location: Lviv, Ukraine ·

System Analyst of Quintagroup.

Nate Aune

President, Jazkarta, Inc.

Location: Boston, MA · IRC nickname: <natea> · Personal home page

Nate has been active in the Plone community since 2003 and now provides Plone-based solutions and services through his company Jazkarta based in Boston, MA. Nate is also founder of the Plone4Artists project which has contributed various multimedia and calendaring enhancements to Plone. Nate is serving his second term on the Plone Foundation Board and chair of the Plone Marketing committee.

Philipp von Weitershausen

Component Development with Zope 3

Location: Dresden, Germany · IRC nickname: <philiKON> · Personal home page

Philipp von Weitershausen was born in Bonn, Germany, in 1983. He grew up in the Rhine area, spent a high school year near Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and graduated in Berlin, Germany. In 2000 he became self-employed as a software developer with a focus on database-driven web applications. He is currently studying physics at the Dresden University of Technology in Dresden, Germany.

Raphael Ritz

PostDoc at the ITB, HU-Berlin

Location: Berlin, Germany · · Personal home page

Leaving the Institute for Theoretical Biology at the Humboldt-University Berlin as well as the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin and moving to the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility's (INCF) secretariat at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.

Reinout van Rees

Programmer, Zest software

Location: Nieuwegein, the Netherlands · · IRC nickname: <reinout> · Personal home page

Well, I'll just point at http://vanrees.org/ where you'll find way too much about me.

Rob Miller

Lead Software Engineer / The Open Planning Project

Location: San Francisco, CA · IRC nickname: <RaFromBRC>

Rob has been developing with and for Plone since 2003, initially developing collaboration tools for the Burning Man project (http://www.burningman.com/), and more recently as a developer for the OpenPlans website (http://www.openplans.org/).

Rob Porter

weblion core developer

Location: State College, Pa · IRC nickname: <robzonenet> · Personal home page

I work for Penn State on the <a href="http://weblion.psu.edu/">WebLion</a> project. I love plone and look forward to giving back to the community.

Rocky Burt

Owner, ServerZen Software

Location: Gander, Newfoundland, Canada · · IRC nickname: <rocky>

Rocky is a Plone, Zope 2, and Zope 3 developer and consultant.

Sean Upton

San Diego Union-Tribune

Location: San Diego, CA · IRC nickname: <supton> · Personal home page

I work in online technology at a newspaper - I manage the site technology team, write code (in Python, of course), and enjoy seeing new media change old media for the better.

Sidnei da Silva

Technical Lead, Enfold Systems, Inc.

Location: Garibaldi, RS, Brazil · IRC nickname: <dreamcatcher> · Personal home page

Sidnei has been part of the Plone community since before the first Plone mockups started circulating. He was a key person in architecting major pieces of the Plone infrastructure in the early days. In the recent past, Sidnei has contributed with mantaining the Plone installers for the Windows platform and keeping the WebDAV story in Plone up to shape. For more background info: http://awkly.org/resume/

Souheil CHELFOUH

developer, integrator (R&D)

Location: Paris · IRC nickname: <trollfot> · Personal home page

Trollfot (aka Souheil CHELFOUH) lives in Paris and dived into the Zope World in 2003. Involved in Open Source software since 2000, he joined Pilot Systems in january 2006, to satisfy his Plone appetite. Since then, he committed some products such as Portletification, Structured Document or InkStain. Beside his computer life, trollfot is involved in an historical reenactment troupe, called "La Compagnie de la Branche Rouge" (focused on the eleventh century in the northern countries)

Stefan H. Holek

Lovely Systems

Location: Vienna, Austria · IRC nickname: <lurker>

Stefan Holek is the unit testing guru of the Zope and Plone communities, and does most of the Quality Assurance and test frameworks used in Plone Solutions. He excels at creating robust and reusable frameworks that act as a solid base for our projects. In his spare time, he makes music with his band 'epy'.

Steve McMahon

Location: Davis, California · · IRC nickname: <SteveM>

Steve is a partner in Reid-McMahon, LLC, a Plone consultancy specializing in work with non profits. He also does extensive volunteer work with the Davis Community Network.

Toby Roberts

Vice President / CFO

Location: Houston, TX USA · · IRC nickname: <tgouw> · Personal home page

Vice President of Enfold Systems. Toby also serves as treasurer for the Plone Foundation.

Tom

Location: Bern, Switzerland

Computer Scientist at University of Bern, Switzerland Currently Ph.D. Studies Work: Java and Plone Development

Tom Lazar

tomster.org

Location: Berlin, Germany · · IRC nickname: <tomster> · Personal home page

Freelance Plone and Zope developer, based in Berlin, Germany.

Wichert Akkerman

Location: Leiden, the Netherlands · · IRC nickname: <wiggy> · Personal home page

Wichert is an independent software consultant.

atReal

Location: France

atReal is a french compagny. atReal provides high level solutions based on Plone. atReal builds your web site, intranet or extranet. atReal also provides trainings and support.

Anders Pearson

Location: New York City, NY, USA

Andrew Burkhalter

Program Manager, ONE/Northwest

Location: Seattle, WA, United States · IRC nickname: <andrewburkhalter>

Andy McKay

Location: Vancouver ·

Bernd Dorn

Location: Austria

Bill Schindler

Location: Scottsdale, Arizona, USA · IRC nickname: <bitranch> · Personal home page

Brent Hendricks

Location: Houston, USA ·

Brian Gershon

Location: Seattle, WA · IRC nickname: <brianfive>

Bui Viet Hung

CEO

Location: Ha Noi - Viet Nam · IRC nickname: <hungbv>

Christian Theune

CEO, gocept gmbh & co. kg

Location: Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany · · IRC nickname: <Theuni>

Christof Haemmerle

Location: New York

Danny Bloemendaal

Location: Ermelo, The Netherlands · IRC nickname: <ender_>

Danny Bloemendaal

Location: Baarn, the Netherlands

David Convent

Location: Brussels

Davide Moro

Location: Chivasso (Turin), Italy · · IRC nickname: <davideilmoro>

Denys Mishunov

Developer, Jarn

Location: Norway · IRC nickname: <spliter>

Fabrizio Reale

CEO, Redomino

Location: Turin, Italy · IRC nickname: <kinder> · Personal home page

Geoff Davis

Location: Raleigh, NC, USA

Giuseppe Masili

Location: Torino, Italy