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Maarten Blokdijk

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)

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Mahmoud Magdy

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.

Maria Skampoura

Maria Skampoura

About Maria Skampoura MBA, MCMI

Maria is the President of Open Source Matters Inc.. Open Source Matters (OSM) is a not-for-profit organisation incorporated in New York, USA, created to serve the financial and legal interests of the Joomla! project.

Always passionate about entrepreneurship, Maria is the founder and CEO of the B2B WebDev SaaS start-up DEVELOPABLE, which is registered in London, UK. DEVELOPABLE is a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that offers busy business owners one-click Joomla! Website creation with no prior coding knowledge.

Maria has been sharing her passion for entrepreneurship by providing students and graduate entrepreneurs with intensive start-up support as a mentor in programmes such as the BSEEN, the Arden Enterprise Incubator, and the City University of London.

Maria holds an MBA with a specialisation in Finance from the University of Leicester in the UK and a Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership from the UK Chartered Management Institute (CMI). Dedicated to CMI values, Maria served as the social media and Communications Lead (NED) at the Chartered Management Institute’s West Midlands and North-West Boards in the United Kingdom.

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