Andrew Eddie

Andrew is an accomplished PHP developer who has been involved in many development projects since 2002. His most significant achievements in the Open Source arena are his involvement in:

• dotProject [2002 - 2003]
  A comprehensive project management tool. Andrew was project lead for a time, and this project is still quite active.
• phpDocumentor
  A very popular source documenter for PHP. Andrew helped out with the CHM converter as well as rewriting the GUI web interface at the time.
• Mambo [2003 - 2005]
  a great Content Management System. Andrew was lead developer and project lead at various times. The project, while now small, is still moderately active. Much of the source code in Mambo even today can have its roots traced back to Andrew's contributions.
• Joomla! [2005 - Present]
  following its split from Mambo in 2005, Joomla! has become one of the most popular and successful Content Management System on the Internet. Andrew has served as project lead and currently holds a lead developer position in the development working group.

Andrew also holds a Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering and a Graduate Diploma in Timber Engineering. He's been tinkering with programming since the early 90s.

Based in southeast Queensland, Australia, Andrew runs his own web development consultancy, New Life in IT Pty Ltd, which is completely based on supporting commercial Joomla! services. He has also developed a number of free and commercial extensions for Joomla!

When off-[Joomla!]-duty, and not programming for a living, he's an active member of his church and is also known to enjoy the odd round of Halo.

Louis Landry

Louis is a principal architect of Joomla! 1.5 and specifically the Joomla! Framework. Empowering people is his passion and the Internet is his medium. As a Lead Developer and Core Team member for Joomla!, Louis has helped to build the cutting edge PHP application framework that powers Joomla! 1.5.

Rob Schley

Rob brings balance to the team with a background in system administration and security. He worked in the hosting industry before joining up with Louis Landry to start WebImagery. Through WebImagery, he has worked on consulting projects big and small while collecting a diverse assortment of clientèle.

He has followed the work of many Open Source projects throughout the years including FreeBSD and Apache, but began taking a more active role in 2006 when he discovered Joomla!.

• Joomla! [2006 - Present]
  Rob has served the Joomla! Project as Quality & Testing Working Group Coordinator, Foundation Working Group Coordinator, Security Task Force Lead and Core Developer. He now contributes as a member of the Development Working Group.
• Open Source Matters [2008 - Present]
  In addition to serving the Joomla! project directly in a variety of roles, Rob also sits on the Board of Directors of Open Source Matters, Inc. OSM was established to provide organizational, legal and financial support for the Joomla! project.

In his free time, Rob enjoys learning Kung Fu, mountain biking, traveling and music.