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Louise Hawkins

Louise Hawkins

Louise has been a Joomla volunteer since February 2022, when she joined the Marketing Team to assist with graphic design. She later became Marketing Lead and was elected Outreach Department Coordinator in September 2023.

With more than 20 years of marketing experience, Louise helps small businesses navigate the increasingly complex world of search, websites, content and AI. Through Oyster SEO, she combines SEO and digital strategy with practical implementation, helping SMEs get found, understood and trusted online.

Her work now focuses particularly on how search is changing in the AI era, including knowledge and content strategy, AI visibility, AI-ready websites, analytics and reporting, alongside building websites with Joomla.

Louise believes good digital marketing should make complex technology useful rather than simply adding more jargon. Her approach is practical, collaborative and grounded in the real-world challenges small businesses face.

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Luca Marzo

Luca Marzo

Luca volunteers for Joomla since 2007. He started in the Italian Community and moved to the global one in 2015. He served in several roles and teams: from JED to Certification Program, from Trademark to Compliance. He is Secretary of Open Source Matters, Inc. since 2017.

Luca serves as Lead Editor for the Joomla Community Magazine since March 2020.

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Luis Orozco Olivares

Luis Orozco Olivares

Web developer, professional in the world of CMS and expert in Joomla! which has been used since 2008.

Luis Orozco (@luisorozoli) was born and raised in Arjona, Jaén, Spain. He is an enthusiastic and passionate web developer, professional in the CMS world and expert in Joomla! which has been used since 2008.

Involved with everything related to the Joomla! Community, forums, groups, etc. He has been a speaker at several Joomla Day Spain talking about extensions created by himself and has also attended the latest major international events about Joomla! (Jandbeyond).

He studied and worked in Jaén for almost two years in a company as an analyst, designer and web developer. Then he made his great professional leap, arriving in London, he was working like Lead Web Developer, in the development and improvement tools, developed and integrated with the Joomla! Engine, creating websites for airlines and hotels around the world.

He has created some extensions for Joomla!, among which the phpMyJoomla (phpmyjoomla.com) component stands out, to make easier the management and export of the database from the backend.

With the problem of the world pandemic (Codvid-19), Luis has created a solution (vercarta.com) for the administration of digital cards for hospitality businesses (hotels, restaurants, bars, pubs, etc.)

He loves being a self-taught person and learning new things every day. He is very active and loves to get involved in his projects and work with people who are equally involved.

A phrase defines it: "Simplicity is the best way", "Simplicity is the best way".

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