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.

Louise is passionate about helping small businesses grow online. Through her business, Oyster SEO - based in the coastal town of Whitstable, Kent, she offers SEO services, new website builds using Joomla, and digital strategy support tailored to small and medium-sized enterprises. With over 20 years of marketing experience, Louise understands the real-world challenges SMEs face and focuses on cutting through digital jargon to deliver measurable results.

Her services also include Google Business Profile optimisation, GEO (generative search optimisation), content creation, social media management, and guidance on leveraging AI tools effectively.

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.

Luciano Martínez

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".

Lukas Polak

Luke Summerfield

Lulú Garibay

Maarten Blokdijk

Loving joomla, creating free goodies for the community to use. I have spoken at the Dutch Joomla Days, and my passion is front-end templating. As the organiser of the Rotterdam Joomla User Group, always active in the community! Recently written a book on Joomla!4 called Mastering Joomla 4 (masteringj4.com)

Mahmoud Magdy

Passionate about the power of open-source collaboration, Mahmoud has gained deep experience with the Joomla MVC framework, end-to-end testing with Cypress, and creating developer friendly APIs. He is driven by the desire to build tools that empower users and hopes to inspire others to begin their own journeys in the open-source community.

Mandville