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I am a writer and editor at TallAndTrue.com and blog on my eponymous website, RobertFairhead.com. I also write and narrate episodes for the Tall And True Short Reads storytelling podcast, which features my short stories, blog posts and other writing from Tall And True. I have also published several short story collections.

I became involved with Joomla! in 2008 when I used the platform to build a website for my local dog club.

I subsequently used Joomla! to develop several generations of the dog club website and for my son's primary school P&C website.

I also used Joomla! to create Tall And True, a website showcasing my writing - fiction, nonfiction and reviews - and the writing of Guest Writers.

I was involved with the Sydney Joomla! User Group (JUG) from 2008, presenting at monthly JUGs and helping organise and present at several JoomlaDay Sydneys. I presented at the inaugural JoomlaDay Australia in Brisbane in 2019 and regularly attend Joomla! Australia virtual meet-ups. 

I am creating websites with Joomla since the beginning, starting with more complex sites in 2007. Generally, since 2004, I am building websites and online-shops for small and medium sized companies.

My webagency webgras is located in Klosterneuburg, near Vienna, in Austria/Europe. We are a small team providing high quality Joomla websites.

I was co-founder of Joomla User Group Vienna and JoomlaDay Austria in 2015, and I am still co-organiser of both and a speaker on many Joomladays. Since then, I got more and more involved in the international Joomla community. Eventually, I joined the CMS Release team and became team lead in November 2020.

I love Joomla and all its capabilites and features, and I try to stick to the core as much as possible - "Just Joomla" is the way to go for me.

Joe (aka JoeJoomla) is from Canada. Former Open Source Matters board member and currently actively involved as a team member of JoomlaDay USA.

With nearly 25 years of experience in IT and web design, Chris has been designing websites for almost as long as the internet has been around. Starting in the education sector, creating websites, and managing IT for a selection of schools, Chris never considered that web design might be his future career – until an opportunity came along.

After creating a free website for his landscaper in 2014, Chris soon saw the potential for website creation as a career and, since 2016, has run Light Bulb Web Design full-time without ever looking back.

Carlos is a Joomla volunteer who works as web consultant for Joomla, PrestaShop and WordPress projects.

Carlos has recently published the book "Developing Extensions for Joomla! 5" to help people start developing extensions for Joomla.

For me Joomla has been a hobby for a long time - since 2008. In 2019 I  became as a Joomla extensions developer and now develop and maintain more than 70 free extensions for Joomla (see https://web-tolk.ru). Some of them are available in the Joomla Extensions Directory.

I am one of the moderators of the Russian-speaking Joomla community in Telegram. I publish posts on the Joomla Feed Telegram news channel in Russian, write Joomla digests and articles about Joomla development.

Husband. Father of 3 children.

RytechSites
Owner, Developer, Freelance

Certified Joomla Administrator, Nov 2017

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
School of Arts and Sciences
Web Developer

Laura Gordon currently works full time at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, School of Arts and Sciences as a web developer. She along with her team manage over 120 Joomla! websites.

Laura began using Joomla! in 2005 building her first website for a nursery school. As the owner of her own freelance company Laura has trained hundreds of users over the users, and has built many Joomla websites from Public Libraries to Pizza places. She runs the Joomla User Group of NJ since 2013.  Visit JoomlaUsersNJ.com for more details.  She was an instructor with JoomlaTraining.com from 2009 - 2011 where she gave in person classes in NYC.

In 2017 she was invited to attend the Joomla World Conference in Italy, and became officially certified as a Joomla Administrator.

She lives in East Brunswick, NJ with her husband Ira, and 2 boys, who are now 20 and 17. As a fun note, her husband owns, ThrillCoastertours.com, he takes kids to amusement parks during the summer time...

She always looks forward to giving back to the Joomla Community that has given her the opportunity to meet some amazing people and work with a great product, that keeps giving back!

• 2009 - Chaired - Joomla Day NYC
• 2011 - Chaired -Joomla Day NYC
• 2012 - Chaired - Joomla Day NYC
• 2009 - 2019 - Chaired JoomlaCamp NYC Annually
• 2011 - Presented at Joomla Day New England
• 2013 - Presented Joomla World Conference - Boston
• 2017 - VET Participant at Joomla World Conference - Italy
• 2019 - Presented Joomla Day Florida
• 2020 - Participated in Forum for the Future with Joomla - Spain

Laura is a member of the Joomla volunteer and engagement team with Joomla and the Educational & Outreach Working Group.

To learn more about the Training Initiatives Laura is working on, visit: teens4opensource.com