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J3.x:Using Composer with Joomla

2015-01-14T15:43:10Z

Duke3D: Grammatic revisions and added details

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[[Category:Development]]

Composer is a widely used tool for dependency management when utilizing third-party libraries. The Joomla! Project introduced Composer into Joomla 3.4 to easily manage library dependencies in both core and extensions. Composer now a staple product widely used in the PHP community to update libraries that are registered and listed at https://Packagist.org, which serves as a directory of available download packages including the Joomla! Framework packages. In this document you'll find out how the CMS is using Composer and how to update the libraries it loads. Learn more about Composer by visiting https://GetComposer.org.

== Where are the Composer files located ==
The Composer files are located in

<source lang="php">
JPATH_ROOT . '/libraries/vendor';
</source>

== Can you edit files loaded with composer? ==
No! You should never directly edit any files imported with Composer (including the Joomla! Framework packages.) These are 3rd party libraries and, similar to all core files, should be enhanced by submitting pull requests on the respective project or extended and overridden in the same manner as any other core functionality.

== Where are the Joomla! Framework files located? ==
Each are hosted in a separate repository. You can find them by going to https://github.com/joomla-framework and searching for the appropriate package.

== How can I update libraries from Composer? ==
Download Composer from https://GetComposer.org/download/ and run

<source lang="php">
composer update --no-dev
</source>

This will update all Composer files to the latest versions as allowed in the composer.json file. If you feel that the versions located in the composer.json file are insufficient then update them by submitting a Pull Request. However, remember that Joomla promises backwards compatibility in the CMS through a major series. This includes the Joomla! Framework packages!

== Are Composer files autoloading? ==
All classes loaded via Composer are automatically autoloaded by the CMS.

== Can you install any extra libraries via Composer? ==
Not at the moment in Joomla! 3.4. In the longer term it is the CMS's aim that you can download extra packages. To emphasize this, we will not yet be releasing the composer.json file within the main Joomla! download.

Joomla User Group Team

2014-08-23T18:39:30Z

Duke3D: Photo added

The Joomla User Group team is a multi-cultural, multi-national team from around the world. We process all the JUG registrations and generally help User Groups to thrive.

==Team Leadership==

=== Team Lead - Liam Mandville ===
English

=== Community Leadership Team Liaison - Ruth Cheesley ===
[[File:Ruth50.jpg|thumbnail|left|Ruth Cheesley]]
Ruth has always been a passionate supporter of free and open source software, and came across Joomla! in the early days when asked to design a website during her time as IT Technician at a school, and the rest, as they say, is history!

She now runs a joint venture with a Dutch firm - [http://www.viryagroup.com Virya Group] - which is a marketing and development agency focused on Open Source technologies. Her personal area of interest lies within search engine optimisation and helping websites to recover from poor SEO practices. Ruth also founded [http://www.joomlasuffolk.co.uk Joomla! User Group Suffolk], regularly contributes to the Joomla Community Magazine, and is on the team for [http://www.joomladay.co.uk JoomlaDay UK] events.

Ruth joined the Community Leadership Team in March 2013 and works closely with the Joomla User Group team promoting Joomla in local communities around the world.

You can follow Ruth on Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/RCheesley @RCheesley] and Google+ at [http://google.com/+RuthCheesley google.com/+RuthCheesley]

Ruth speaks English, and basic level French.

=== Trademark Team Liaison - Duke Speer ===
[[File:Duke-headshot.jpg|thumbnail|right|Duke Speer]]
Duke came to Joomla from the Zope and Plone projects when a client insisted that their site be rebuilt using Joomla! Shortly after, he attended the JoomlaDay in Las Vegas, met some of the leaders there, and was infected by the passion of the Joomla! community. He specializes in websites for charities that need to demonstrate their impact. For the Project, he serves as the Team Lead for the group that protects and defends the Joomla trademarks and copyrights for the benefit of the Joomla! community, drawing upon experience from his first career as an intellectual property attorney. He serves on several working groups including Governance, Joomla Resources Directory, and Marketing. He is a frequent speaker at Joomla events, including host of Joomla!Ignite at the Joomla World Conference.

Duke's home is in Utah where in the winter he serves as a volunteer ski patroller and his summer includes camping, mountain bike riding and photography.

==Team Members==

=== Alejandro Pascoli ===
[[File:AlePascoli.jpg|thumbnail|none|Alejandro Pascoli]]

=== Guillermo Bravo ===

=== Helvecio da Silva ===
[[File:Profile picture joomla 400x400.jpg|thumbnail|right|Helvécio da Silva]]
Graphic and webdesigner, uses Joomla since 2005. Currently based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he runs his own design studio - HLVC Design - as a consultant in web and graphic design, Joomla, Wordpress, Online Social Media and Online Marketing.

Passionate about his work and Joomla, he is always eager to find more and more about the system and share his knowledge with the community. Creating custom Joomla templates is the area he enjoys the most working with and you can easily find him busy learning new techniques.

In addition to being part of the Joomla! User Group Team, Helvecio is also a member of the forming Joomla Design Team and regular contributor as an illustrator for the Joomla Commnunity Magazine. In Rio de Janeiro, he helps organize the meeting of JUG CaRIOca, a local JUG.

You can follow Helvecio on [https://twitter.com/helvecio Twitter], [https://www.facebook.com/helvecio.da.silva.rio Facebook] and [https://www.linkedin.com/in/helveciodasilva LinkedIn].

=== Jan van Kuijk ===
[[File:JanVanKuijk2014.jpg|thumbnail|right|Jan van Kuijk]]
"Joomla is my profession", says Jan van Kuijk.

Jan van Kuijk is a true Joomla fanatic. Starting in 2006 with the construction of its own Joomla 1.0 portal with news from Hungary in Dutch, Joomla became a daily activity and a profession. Each year approximately 100 sites come under his care, where the activities range from installing a plugin, module or component to build complex sites and shops.
The continuity of the business is in the daily maintenance of sites for his customers.

Two years ago he was the initiator and stil organizer of the Joomla User Group in Breda, the south west of The Netherlands. The group has meetings every month with about 10 to 20 attendees. Recently he was the initiator of the Joomla User Group in Eindhoven in the south east of The Netherlands.

Besides the JUG in The Netherlands he wants to get involved in the Joomla User Groups in Hungary.

Jan has two home countries: his motherland The Netherlands and his passion-country Hungary.

The nature of its service does not depend on the place on earth where Jan is. A connection to the internet and a cell phone is enough to provide maximum service.

Jan speaks Dutch, English and German.

=== Max Lynham ===

=== Saurabh Shah ===
[[File:Saurabh.jpg|thumbnail|right|Saurabh Shah]]
Saurabh is a Joomlaholic and very passionate about Open Source. Saurabh lives in Pune, India and is currently a front end developer at CloudAccess.net. He is knowledgeable with many coding languages and database applications and you can usually find him busy coding Joomla! templates and themes, styling Joomla! extensions, and keeping up-to-date with web technologies.

In addition to being an OSM Board Member, Saurabh is a member of the Joomla! Events Team, Joomla! User Group Team (JUG), and Joomla! Social Media Team. He is a frequent speaker at JoomlaDay events around the world and an organizer of JoomlaDay India.

Apart from Joomla!, Saurabh is a Regional Mozilla Representative (ReMo) and coordinates and speaks at Mozilla events.

You can follow Saurabh on Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/saurabhshah @SaurabhShah].

=== Son Koral ===
Son is the organizer of the Joomla! User Group Detroit, sharing his passion for Joomla! and Open Source Software during monthly JUG meetups. Besides for working at the Detroit Zoo as a web developer, he has also founded the start-up business, Detroit Web Developers.

== Trademark Specialists ==

=== Jennifer Gress ===
Jennifer Gress has been using Joomla since 2006 as an employee in corporate America. Since 2010 she has been working with clients to use Joomla for their websites and empower them with the ability to work with and edit their own content. In 2010 she began co-organizing the Bay Area Joomla! User Group in the San Francisco Bay Area and does so to this day.

Jennifer co-authored [http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028123.do ''Using Joomla!, Second Edition'' for O'Reilly Media, Inc.] in 2014 to reach even more people and empower them to use Joomla.

In addition to being a member of the Joomla User Group Team, Jenn is also a member of the Trademark Team and the Update Working Group with the goal to help people migrate their sites from one life cycle of Joomla to another. Jenn has built an expertise around migration and hopes all will get their sites to the latest version of Joomla!

Jenn is regularly active on the Joomla Community Forums with a goal to answer at least one post per week. Not a ton - but helps someone out there to get farther with Joomla.

You can find Jenn on [http://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifergress/ LinkedIn] or via her [http://snapdragonservices.com website].

=== Michelle Bisson ===

[[Category:User Groups]]

Joomla User Group Team

2014-08-22T15:49:39Z

Duke3D: update

The Joomla User Group team is a multi-cultural, multi-national team from around the world. We process all the JUG registrations and generally help User Groups to thrive.

==Team Leadership==

=== Team Lead - Liam Mandville ===
English

=== Community Leadership Team Liaison - Ruth Cheesley ===
[[File:Ruth50.jpg|thumbnail|left|Ruth Cheesley]]
Ruth has always been a passionate supporter of free and open source software, and came across Joomla! in the early days when asked to design a website during her time as IT Technician at a school, and the rest, as they say, is history!

She now runs a joint venture with a Dutch firm - [http://www.viryagroup.com Virya Group] - which is a marketing and development agency focused on Open Source technologies. Her personal area of interest lies within search engine optimisation and helping websites to recover from poor SEO practices. Ruth also founded [http://www.joomlasuffolk.co.uk Joomla! User Group Suffolk], regularly contributes to the Joomla Community Magazine, and is on the team for [http://www.joomladay.co.uk JoomlaDay UK] events.

Ruth joined the Community Leadership Team in March 2013 and works closely with the Joomla User Group team promoting Joomla in local communities around the world.

You can follow Ruth on Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/RCheesley @RCheesley] and Google+ at [http://google.com/+RuthCheesley google.com/+RuthCheesley]

Ruth speaks English, and basic level French.

=== Trademark Team Liaison - Duke Speer ===
Duke came to Joomla from the Zope and Plone projects when a client insisted that their site be rebuilt using Joomla! Shortly after, he attended the JoomlaDay in Las Vegas, met some of the leaders there, and was infected by the passion of the Joomla! community. He specializes in websites for charities that need to demonstrate their impact. For the Project, he serves as the Team Lead for the group that protects and defends the Joomla trademarks and copyrights for the benefit of the Joomla! community, drawing upon experience from his first career as an intellectual property attorney. He serves on several working groups including Governance, Joomla Resources Directory, and Marketing. He is a frequent speaker at Joomla events, including host of Joomla!Ignite at the Joomla World Conference.

Duke's home is in Utah where in the winter he serves as a volunteer ski patroller and his summer includes camping, mountain bike riding and photography.

==Team Members==

=== Alejandro Pascoli ===
[[File:AlePascoli.jpg|thumbnail|none|Alejandro Pascoli]]

=== Guillermo Bravo ===

=== Helvecio da Silva ===
[[File:Profile picture joomla 400x400.jpg|thumbnail|right|Helvécio da Silva]]
Graphic and webdesigner, uses Joomla since 2005. Currently based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he runs his own design studio - HLVC Design - as a consultant in web and graphic design, Joomla, Wordpress, Online Social Media and Online Marketing.

Passionate about his work and Joomla, he is always eager to find more and more about the system and share his knowledge with the community. Creating custom Joomla templates is the area he enjoys the most working with and you can easily find him busy learning new techniques.

In addition to being part of the Joomla! User Group Team, Helvecio is also a member of the forming Joomla Design Group and regular contributor as an illustrator for the Joomla Commnunity Magazine. In Rio de Janeiro, he helps organize the meeting of JUG CaRIOca, a local JUG.

You can follow Helvecio on Twitter @helvecio

=== Jan van Kuijk ===
[[File:JanVanKuijk2014.jpg|thumbnail|right|Jan van Kuijk]]
"Joomla is my profession", says Jan van Kuijk.

Jan van Kuijk is a true Joomla fanatic. Starting in 2006 with the construction of its own Joomla 1.0 portal with news from Hungary in Dutch, Joomla became a daily activity and a profession. Each year approximately 100 sites come under his care, where the activities range from installing a plugin, module or component to build complex sites and shops.
The continuity of the business is in the daily maintenance of sites for his customers.

Two years ago he was the initiator and stil organizer of the Joomla User Group in Breda, the south west of The Netherlands. The group has meetings every month with about 10 to 20 attendees. Recently he was the initiator of the Joomla User Group in Eindhoven in the south east of The Netherlands.

Besides the JUG in The Netherlands he wants to get involved in the Joomla User Groups in Hungary.

Jan has two home countries: his motherland The Netherlands and his passion-country Hungary.

The nature of its service does not depend on the place on earth where Jan is. A connection to the internet and a cell phone is enough to provide maximum service.

Jan speaks Dutch, English and German.

=== Max Lynham ===

=== Saurabh Shah ===
[[File:Saurabh.jpg|thumbnail|right|Saurabh Shah]]
Saurabh is a Joomlaholic and very passionate about Open Source. Saurabh lives in Pune, India and is currently a front end developer at CloudAccess.net. He is knowledgeable with many coding languages and database applications and you can usually find him busy coding Joomla! templates and themes, styling Joomla! extensions, and keeping up-to-date with web technologies.

In addition to being an OSM Board Member, Saurabh is a member of the Joomla! Events Team, Joomla! User Group Team (JUG), and Joomla! Social Media Team. He is a frequent speaker at JoomlaDay events around the world and an organizer of JoomlaDay India.

Apart from Joomla!, Saurabh is a Regional Mozilla Representative (ReMo) and coordinates and speaks at Mozilla events.

You can follow Saurabh on Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/saurabhshah @SaurabhShah].

=== Son Koral ===
Son is the organizer of the Joomla! User Group Detroit, sharing his passion for Joomla! and Open Source Software during monthly JUG meetups. Besides for working at the Detroit Zoo as a web developer, he has also founded the start-up business, Detroit Web Developers.

== Trademark Specialists ==

=== Jennifer Gress ===
Jennifer Gress has been using Joomla since 2006 as an employee in corporate America. Since 2010 she has been working with clients to use Joomla for their websites and empower them with the ability to work with and edit their own content. In 2010 she began co-organizing the Bay Area Joomla! User Group in the San Francisco Bay Area and does so to this day.

Jennifer co-authored [http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028123.do ''Using Joomla!, Second Edition'' for O'Reilly Media, Inc.] in 2014 to reach even more people and empower them to use Joomla.

In addition to being a member of the Joomla User Group Team, Jenn is also a member of the Trademark Team and the Update Working Group with the goal to help people migrate their sites from one life cycle of Joomla to another. Jenn has built an expertise around migration and hopes all will get their sites to the latest version of Joomla!

Jenn is regularly active on the Joomla Community Forums with a goal to answer at least one post per week. Not a ton - but helps someone out there to get farther with Joomla.

You can find Jenn on [http://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifergress/ LinkedIn] or via her [http://snapdragonservices.com website].

=== Michelle Bisson ===

[[Category:User Groups]]

Joomla User Group Team

2014-08-22T15:44:14Z

Duke3D: Add bio

The Joomla User Group team is a multi-cultural, multi-national team from around the world. We process all the JUG registrations and generally help User Groups to thrive.

==Team Leadership==

=== Team Lead - Liam Mandville ===
English

=== Community Leadership Team Liaison - Ruth Cheesley ===
[[File:Ruth50.jpg|thumbnail|left|Ruth Cheesley]]
Ruth has always been a passionate supporter of free and open source software, and came across Joomla! in the early days when asked to design a website during her time as IT Technician at a school, and the rest, as they say, is history!

She now runs a joint venture with a Dutch firm - [http://www.viryagroup.com Virya Group] - which is a marketing and development agency focused on Open Source technologies. Her personal area of interest lies within search engine optimisation and helping websites to recover from poor SEO practices. Ruth also founded [http://www.joomlasuffolk.co.uk Joomla! User Group Suffolk], regularly contributes to the Joomla Community Magazine, and is on the team for [http://www.joomladay.co.uk JoomlaDay UK] events.

Ruth joined the Community Leadership Team in March 2013 and works closely with the Joomla User Group team promoting Joomla in local communities around the world.

You can follow Ruth on Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/RCheesley @RCheesley] and Google+ at [http://google.com/+RuthCheesley google.com/+RuthCheesley]

Ruth speaks English, and basic level French.

=== Trademark Team Liaison - Duke Speer ===
Duke came to Joomla from the Zope and Plone projects when a client insisted that their site be rebuilt using Joomla! Shortly after, he attended the JoomlaDay in Las Vegas, met some of the leaders there, and was infected by the passion of the Joomla! community. He specializes in websites for charities that need to demonstrate their impact. For the Project, he serves as the Team Lead for the group that protects and defends the Joomla trademarks and copyrights for the benefit of the Joomla! community, drawing upon experience from his first career as an intellectual property attorney. He serves on several working groups and teams, including Governance, Joomla Resources Directory, and Marketing.

==Team Members==

=== Alejandro Pascoli ===
[[File:AlePascoli.jpg|thumbnail|none|Alejandro Pascoli]]

=== Guillermo Bravo ===

=== Helvecio da Silva ===
[[File:Profile picture joomla 400x400.jpg|thumbnail|right|Helvécio da Silva]]
Graphic and webdesigner, uses Joomla since 2005. Currently based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he runs his own design studio - HLVC Design - as a consultant in web and graphic design, Joomla, Wordpress, Online Social Media and Online Marketing.

Passionate about his work and Joomla, he is always eager to find more and more about the system and share his knowledge with the community. Creating custom Joomla templates is the area he enjoys the most working with and you can easily find him busy learning new techniques.

In addition to being part of the Joomla! User Group Team, Helvecio is also a member of the forming Joomla Design Group and regular contributor as an illustrator for the Joomla Commnunity Magazine. In Rio de Janeiro, he helps organize the meeting of JUG CaRIOca, a local JUG.

You can follow Helvecio on Twitter @helvecio

=== Jan van Kuijk ===
[[File:JanVanKuijk2014.jpg|thumbnail|right|Jan van Kuijk]]
"Joomla is my profession", says Jan van Kuijk.

Jan van Kuijk is a true Joomla fanatic. Starting in 2006 with the construction of its own Joomla 1.0 portal with news from Hungary in Dutch, Joomla became a daily activity and a profession. Each year approximately 100 sites come under his care, where the activities range from installing a plugin, module or component to build complex sites and shops.
The continuity of the business is in the daily maintenance of sites for his customers.

Two years ago he was the initiator and stil organizer of the Joomla User Group in Breda, the south west of The Netherlands. The group has meetings every month with about 10 to 20 attendees. Recently he was the initiator of the Joomla User Group in Eindhoven in the south east of The Netherlands.

Besides the JUG in The Netherlands he wants to get involved in the Joomla User Groups in Hungary.

Jan has two home countries: his motherland The Netherlands and his passion-country Hungary.

The nature of its service does not depend on the place on earth where Jan is. A connection to the internet and a cell phone is enough to provide maximum service.

Jan speaks Dutch, English and German.

=== Max Lynham ===

=== Saurabh Shah ===
[[File:Saurabh.jpg|thumbnail|right|Saurabh Shah]]
Saurabh is a Joomlaholic and very passionate about Open Source. Saurabh lives in Pune, India and is currently a front end developer at CloudAccess.net. He is knowledgeable with many coding languages and database applications and you can usually find him busy coding Joomla! templates and themes, styling Joomla! extensions, and keeping up-to-date with web technologies.

In addition to being an OSM Board Member, Saurabh is a member of the Joomla! Events Team, Joomla! User Group Team (JUG), and Joomla! Social Media Team. He is a frequent speaker at JoomlaDay events around the world and an organizer of JoomlaDay India.

Apart from Joomla!, Saurabh is a Regional Mozilla Representative (ReMo) and coordinates and speaks at Mozilla events.

You can follow Saurabh on Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/saurabhshah @SaurabhShah].

=== Son Koral ===
Son is the organizer of the Joomla! User Group Detroit, sharing his passion for Joomla! and Open Source Software during monthly JUG meetups. Besides for working at the Detroit Zoo as a web developer, he has also founded the start-up business, Detroit Web Developers.

== Trademark Specialists ==

=== Jennifer Gress ===
Jennifer Gress has been using Joomla since 2006 as an employee in corporate America. Since 2010 she has been working with clients to use Joomla for their websites and empower them with the ability to work with and edit their own content. In 2010 she began co-organizing the Bay Area Joomla! User Group in the San Francisco Bay Area and does so to this day.

Jennifer co-authored [http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028123.do ''Using Joomla!, Second Edition'' for O'Reilly Media, Inc.] in 2014 to reach even more people and empower them to use Joomla.

In addition to being a member of the Joomla User Group Team, Jenn is also a member of the Trademark Team and the Update Working Group with the goal to help people migrate their sites from one life cycle of Joomla to another. Jenn has built an expertise around migration and hopes all will get their sites to the latest version of Joomla!

Jenn is regularly active on the Joomla Community Forums with a goal to answer at least one post per week. Not a ton - but helps someone out there to get farther with Joomla.

You can find Jenn on [http://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifergress/ LinkedIn] or via her [http://snapdragonservices.com website].

=== Michelle Bisson ===

[[Category:User Groups]]

Joomla User Group Team

2014-08-22T15:32:13Z

Duke3D: Reorganizing

The Joomla User Group team is a multi-cultural, multi-national team from around the world. We process all the JUG registrations and generally help User Groups to thrive.

==Team Leadership==

=== Team Lead - Liam Mandville ===
English

=== Community Leadership Team Liaison - Ruth Cheesley ===
[[File:Ruth50.jpg|thumbnail|left|Ruth Cheesley]]
Ruth has always been a passionate supporter of free and open source software, and came across Joomla! in the early days when asked to design a website during her time as IT Technician at a school, and the rest, as they say, is history!

She now runs a joint venture with a Dutch firm - [http://www.viryagroup.com Virya Group] - which is a marketing and development agency focused on Open Source technologies. Her personal area of interest lies within search engine optimisation and helping websites to recover from poor SEO practices. Ruth also founded [http://www.joomlasuffolk.co.uk Joomla! User Group Suffolk], regularly contributes to the Joomla Community Magazine, and is on the team for [http://www.joomladay.co.uk JoomlaDay UK] events.

Ruth joined the Community Leadership Team in March 2013 and works closely with the Joomla User Group team promoting Joomla in local communities around the world.

You can follow Ruth on Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/RCheesley @RCheesley] and Google+ at [http://google.com/+RuthCheesley google.com/+RuthCheesley]

Ruth speaks English, and basic level French.

=== Trademark and Licensing Team Liaison - Duke Speer ===

==Team Members==

=== Alejandro Pascoli ===
[[File:AlePascoli.jpg|thumbnail|none|Alejandro Pascoli]]

=== Guillermo Bravo ===

=== Helvecio da Silva ===
[[File:Profile picture joomla 400x400.jpg|thumbnail|right|Helvécio da Silva]]
Graphic and webdesigner, uses Joomla since 2005. Currently based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he runs his own design studio - HLVC Design - as a consultant in web and graphic design, Joomla, Wordpress, Online Social Media and Online Marketing.

Passionate about his work and Joomla, he is always eager to find more and more about the system and share his knowledge with the community. Creating custom Joomla templates is the area he enjoys the most working with and you can easily find him busy learning new techniques.

In addition to being part of the Joomla! User Group Team, Helvecio is also a member of the forming Joomla Design Group and regular contributor as an illustrator for the Joomla Commnunity Magazine. In Rio de Janeiro, he helps organize the meeting of JUG CaRIOca, a local JUG.

You can follow Helvecio on Twitter @helvecio

=== Jan van Kuijk ===
[[File:JanVanKuijk2014.jpg|thumbnail|right|Jan van Kuijk]]
"Joomla is my profession", says Jan van Kuijk.

Jan van Kuijk is a true Joomla fanatic. Starting in 2006 with the construction of its own Joomla 1.0 portal with news from Hungary in Dutch, Joomla became a daily activity and a profession. Each year approximately 100 sites come under his care, where the activities range from installing a plugin, module or component to build complex sites and shops.
The continuity of the business is in the daily maintenance of sites for his customers.

Two years ago he was the initiator and stil organizer of the Joomla User Group in Breda, the south west of The Netherlands. The group has meetings every month with about 10 to 20 attendees. Recently he was the initiator of the Joomla User Group in Eindhoven in the south east of The Netherlands.

Besides the JUG in The Netherlands he wants to get involved in the Joomla User Groups in Hungary.

Jan has two home countries: his motherland The Netherlands and his passion-country Hungary.

The nature of its service does not depend on the place on earth where Jan is. A connection to the internet and a cell phone is enough to provide maximum service.

Jan speaks Dutch, English and German.

=== Max Lynham ===

=== Saurabh Shah ===
[[File:Saurabh.jpg|thumbnail|right|Saurabh Shah]]
Saurabh is a Joomlaholic and very passionate about Open Source. Saurabh lives in Pune, India and is currently a front end developer at CloudAccess.net. He is knowledgeable with many coding languages and database applications and you can usually find him busy coding Joomla! templates and themes, styling Joomla! extensions, and keeping up-to-date with web technologies.

In addition to being an OSM Board Member, Saurabh is a member of the Joomla! Events Team, Joomla! User Group Team (JUG), and Joomla! Social Media Team. He is a frequent speaker at JoomlaDay events around the world and an organizer of JoomlaDay India.

Apart from Joomla!, Saurabh is a Regional Mozilla Representative (ReMo) and coordinates and speaks at Mozilla events.

You can follow Saurabh on Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/saurabhshah @SaurabhShah].

=== Son Koral ===
Son is the organizer of the Joomla! User Group Detroit, sharing his passion for Joomla! and Open Source Software during monthly JUG meetups. Besides for working at the Detroit Zoo as a web developer, he has also founded the start-up business, Detroit Web Developers.

== Trademark Specialists ==

=== Jennifer Gress ===
Jennifer Gress has been using Joomla since 2006 as an employee in corporate America. Since 2010 she has been working with clients to use Joomla for their websites and empower them with the ability to work with and edit their own content. In 2010 she began co-organizing the Bay Area Joomla! User Group in the San Francisco Bay Area and does so to this day.

Jennifer co-authored [http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028123.do ''Using Joomla!, Second Edition'' for O'Reilly Media, Inc.] in 2014 to reach even more people and empower them to use Joomla.

In addition to being a member of the Joomla User Group Team, Jenn is also a member of the Trademark Team and the Update Working Group with the goal to help people migrate their sites from one life cycle of Joomla to another. Jenn has built an expertise around migration and hopes all will get their sites to the latest version of Joomla!

Jenn is regularly active on the Joomla Community Forums with a goal to answer at least one post per week. Not a ton - but helps someone out there to get farther with Joomla.

You can find Jenn on [http://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifergress/ LinkedIn] or via her [http://snapdragonservices.com website].

=== Michelle Bisson ===

[[Category:User Groups]]

Joomla User Group Team

2014-08-22T15:26:49Z

Duke3D:

The Joomla User Group team is a multi-cultural, multi-national team from around the world. We process all the JUG registrations and generally help User Groups to thrive.

==Team Leadership==

=== Team Lead - Liam Mandville ===
English

=== Community Leadership Team Liaison - Ruth Cheesley ===
[[File:Ruth50.jpg|thumbnail|left|Ruth Cheesley]]
Ruth has always been a passionate supporter of free and open source software, and came across Joomla! in the early days when asked to design a website during her time as IT Technician at a school, and the rest, as they say, is history!

She now runs a joint venture with a Dutch firm - [http://www.viryagroup.com Virya Group] - which is a marketing and development agency focused on Open Source technologies. Her personal area of interest lies within search engine optimisation and helping websites to recover from poor SEO practices. Ruth also founded [http://www.joomlasuffolk.co.uk Joomla! User Group Suffolk], regularly contributes to the Joomla Community Magazine, and is on the team for [http://www.joomladay.co.uk JoomlaDay UK] events.

Ruth joined the Community Leadership Team in March 2013 and works closely with the Joomla User Group team promoting Joomla in local communities around the world.

You can follow Ruth on Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/RCheesley @RCheesley] and Google+ at [http://google.com/+RuthCheesley google.com/+RuthCheesley]

Ruth speaks English, and basic level French.

==Team Members==

=== Alejandro Pascoli ===
[[File:AlePascoli.jpg|thumbnail|none|Alejandro Pascoli]]

=== Guillermo Bravo ===

=== Helvecio da Silva ===
[[File:Profile picture joomla 400x400.jpg|thumbnail|right|Helvécio da Silva]]
Graphic and webdesigner, uses Joomla since 2005. Currently based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he runs his own design studio - HLVC Design - as a consultant in web and graphic design, Joomla, Wordpress, Online Social Media and Online Marketing.

Passionate about his work and Joomla, he is always eager to find more and more about the system and share his knowledge with the community. Creating custom Joomla templates is the area he enjoys the most working with and you can easily find him busy learning new techniques.

In addition to being part of the Joomla! User Group Team, Helvecio is also a member of the forming Joomla Design Group and regular contributor as an illustrator for the Joomla Commnunity Magazine. In Rio de Janeiro, he helps organize the meeting of JUG CaRIOca, a local JUG.

You can follow Helvecio on Twitter @helvecio

=== Jan van Kuijk ===
[[File:JanVanKuijk2014.jpg|thumbnail|right|Jan van Kuijk]]
"Joomla is my profession", says Jan van Kuijk.

Jan van Kuijk is a true Joomla fanatic. Starting in 2006 with the construction of its own Joomla 1.0 portal with news from Hungary in Dutch, Joomla became a daily activity and a profession. Each year approximately 100 sites come under his care, where the activities range from installing a plugin, module or component to build complex sites and shops.
The continuity of the business is in the daily maintenance of sites for his customers.

Two years ago he was the initiator and stil organizer of the Joomla User Group in Breda, the south west of The Netherlands. The group has meetings every month with about 10 to 20 attendees. Recently he was the initiator of the Joomla User Group in Eindhoven in the south east of The Netherlands.

Besides the JUG in The Netherlands he wants to get involved in the Joomla User Groups in Hungary.

Jan has two home countries: his motherland The Netherlands and his passion-country Hungary.

The nature of its service does not depend on the place on earth where Jan is. A connection to the internet and a cell phone is enough to provide maximum service.

Jan speaks Dutch, English and German.

=== Max Lynham ===

=== Saurabh Shah ===
[[File:Saurabh.jpg|thumbnail|right|Saurabh Shah]]
Saurabh is a Joomlaholic and very passionate about Open Source. Saurabh lives in Pune, India and is currently a front end developer at CloudAccess.net. He is knowledgeable with many coding languages and database applications and you can usually find him busy coding Joomla! templates and themes, styling Joomla! extensions, and keeping up-to-date with web technologies.

In addition to being an OSM Board Member, Saurabh is a member of the Joomla! Events Team, Joomla! User Group Team (JUG), and Joomla! Social Media Team. He is a frequent speaker at JoomlaDay events around the world and an organizer of JoomlaDay India.

Apart from Joomla!, Saurabh is a Regional Mozilla Representative (ReMo) and coordinates and speaks at Mozilla events.

You can follow Saurabh on Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/saurabhshah @SaurabhShah].

=== Son Koral ===
Son is the organizer of the Joomla! User Group Detroit, sharing his passion for Joomla! and Open Source Software during monthly JUG meetups. Besides for working at the Detroit Zoo as a web developer, he has also founded the start-up business, Detroit Web Developers.

== Trademark Specialists ==

=== Duke Speer ===

=== Jennifer Gress ===
Jennifer Gress has been using Joomla since 2006 as an employee in corporate America. Since 2010 she has been working with clients to use Joomla for their websites and empower them with the ability to work with and edit their own content. In 2010 she began co-organizing the Bay Area Joomla! User Group in the San Francisco Bay Area and does so to this day.

Jennifer co-authored [http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028123.do ''Using Joomla!, Second Edition'' for O'Reilly Media, Inc.] in 2014 to reach even more people and empower them to use Joomla.

In addition to being a member of the Joomla User Group Team, Jenn is also a member of the Trademark Team and the Update Working Group with the goal to help people migrate their sites from one life cycle of Joomla to another. Jenn has built an expertise around migration and hopes all will get their sites to the latest version of Joomla!

Jenn is regularly active on the Joomla Community Forums with a goal to answer at least one post per week. Not a ton - but helps someone out there to get farther with Joomla.

You can find Jenn on [http://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifergress/ LinkedIn] or via her [http://snapdragonservices.com website].

=== Michelle Bisson ===

[[Category:User Groups]]

Joomla User Group Team

2014-08-22T15:20:22Z

Duke3D: Reorganized TM team.

The Joomla User Group team is a multi-cultural, multi-national team from around the world. We process all the JUG registrations and generally help User Groups to thrive.

==Team Members==

=== Team Lead - Liam Mandville ===
English

=== Community Leadership Team Liaison - Ruth Cheesley ===
[[File:Ruth50.jpg|thumbnail|left|Ruth Cheesley]]
Ruth has always been a passionate supporter of free and open source software, and came across Joomla! in the early days when asked to design a website during her time as IT Technician at a school, and the rest, as they say, is history!

She now runs a joint venture with a Dutch firm - [http://www.viryagroup.com Virya Group] - which is a marketing and development agency focused on Open Source technologies. Her personal area of interest lies within search engine optimisation and helping websites to recover from poor SEO practices. Ruth also founded [http://www.joomlasuffolk.co.uk Joomla! User Group Suffolk], regularly contributes to the Joomla Community Magazine, and is on the team for [http://www.joomladay.co.uk JoomlaDay UK] events.

Ruth joined the Community Leadership Team in March 2013 and works closely with the Joomla User Group team promoting Joomla in local communities around the world.

You can follow Ruth on Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/RCheesley @RCheesley] and Google+ at [http://google.com/+RuthCheesley google.com/+RuthCheesley]

Ruth speaks English, and basic level French.

=== Son Koral ===
Son is the organizer of the Joomla! User Group Detroit, sharing his passion for Joomla! and Open Source Software during monthly JUG meetups. Besides for working at the Detroit Zoo as a web developer, he has also founded the start-up business, Detroit Web Developers.

=== Saurabh Shah ===
[[File:Saurabh.jpg|thumbnail|right|Saurabh Shah]]
Saurabh is a Joomlaholic and very passionate about Open Source. Saurabh lives in Pune, India and is currently a front end developer at CloudAccess.net. He is knowledgeable with many coding languages and database applications and you can usually find him busy coding Joomla! templates and themes, styling Joomla! extensions, and keeping up-to-date with web technologies.

In addition to being an OSM Board Member, Saurabh is a member of the Joomla! Events Team, Joomla! User Group Team (JUG), and Joomla! Social Media Team. He is a frequent speaker at JoomlaDay events around the world and an organizer of JoomlaDay India.

Apart from Joomla!, Saurabh is a Regional Mozilla Representative (ReMo) and coordinates and speaks at Mozilla events.

You can follow Saurabh on Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/saurabhshah @SaurabhShah].

=== Guillermo Bravo ===

=== Alejandro Pascoli ===
[[File:AlePascoli.jpg|thumbnail|none|Alejandro Pascoli]]

=== Helvecio da Silva ===

[[File:Profile picture joomla 400x400.jpg|thumbnail|right|Helvécio da Silva]]
Graphic and webdesigner, uses Joomla since 2005. Currently based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he runs his own design studio - HLVC Design - as a consultant in web and graphic design, Joomla, Wordpress, Online Social Media and Online Marketing.

Passionate about his work and Joomla, he is always eager to find more and more about the system and share his knowledge with the community. Creating custom Joomla templates is the area he enjoys the most working with and you can easily find him busy learning new techniques.

In addition to being part of the Joomla! User Group Team, Helvecio is also a member of the forming Joomla Design Group and regular contributor as an illustrator for the Joomla Commnunity Magazine. In Rio de Janeiro, he helps organize the meeting of JUG CaRIOca, a local JUG.

You can follow Helvecio on Twitter @helvecio

=== Jan van Kuijk ===
[[File:JanVanKuijk2014.jpg|thumbnail|right|Jan van Kuijk]]
"Joomla is my profession", says Jan van Kuijk.

Jan van Kuijk is a true Joomla fanatic. Starting in 2006 with the construction of its own Joomla 1.0 portal with news from Hungary in Dutch, Joomla became a daily activity and a profession. Each year approximately 100 sites come under his care, where the activities range from installing a plugin, module or component to build complex sites and shops.
The continuity of the business is in the daily maintenance of sites for his customers.

Two years ago he was the initiator and stil organizer of the Joomla User Group in Breda, the south west of The Netherlands. The group has meetings every month with about 10 to 20 attendees. Recently he was the initiator of the Joomla User Group in Eindhoven in the south east of The Netherlands.

Besides the JUG in The Netherlands he wants to get involved in the Joomla User Groups in Hungary.

Jan has two home countries: his motherland The Netherlands and his passion-country Hungary.

The nature of its service does not depend on the place on earth where Jan is. A connection to the internet and a cell phone is enough to provide maximum service.

Jan speaks Dutch, English and German.

=== Max Lynham ===

== Trademark Team Liaisons ==

=== Duke Speer ===

=== Jennifer Gress ===

Jennifer Gress has been using Joomla since 2006 as an employee in corporate America. Since 2010 she has been working with clients to use Joomla for their websites and empower them with the ability to work with and edit their own content. In 2010 she began co-organizing the Bay Area Joomla! User Group in the San Francisco Bay Area and does so to this day.

Jennifer co-authored [http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028123.do ''Using Joomla!, Second Edition'' for O'Reilly Media, Inc.] in 2014 to reach even more people and empower them to use Joomla.

In addition to being a member of the Joomla User Group Team, Jenn is also a member of the Trademark Team and the Update Working Group with the goal to help people migrate their sites from one life cycle of Joomla to another. Jenn has built an expertise around migration and hopes all will get their sites to the latest version of Joomla!

Jenn is regularly active on the Joomla Community Forums with a goal to answer at least one post per week. Not a ton - but helps someone out there to get farther with Joomla.

You can find Jenn on [http://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifergress/ LinkedIn] or via her [http://snapdragonservices.com website].

=== Michelle Bisson ===

[[Category:User Groups]]