Joomla! Community Magazine™

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.

As a co-founder of Joomla! and OpenSourceMatters Inc I've never been known to be lacking an opinion or being too afraid to express it.

Despite what some people might think I'm a shy and modest man who doesnt like to blow his own trumpet or boast about achievements.

You don't need a badge to polish to contribute to Joomla you just need to roll up your sleeves and do it.

Since 2008, I am creating websites with Joomla. In 2014 I started volunteering in the Joomla community and I am now active in various teams (Maintainers, Accessibility, Events). I like to write articles for the Joomla Magazine and other blogs. Since 2019, I have been (co-)organising the JoomlaDay Germany / D-A-CH.

Dan has been building websites since 1995 and started using Joomla around 2009 after dabbling with Mambo. A sometimes attendee of JUGL and other networking groups, he runs a small web development business (DJA), collaborating with other developers and designers in and around London, England. In his spare time Dan plays the guitar, goes to gigs, bakes bread and is a crew volunteer at Glastonbury Festival. He runs a gig listing website called Music On My Doorstep.

About Maria Skampoura MBA, MCMI

Maria Skampoura currently serves as the Advisory Board Chair of the Joomla! Project, under the governance of Open Source Matters, Inc., a non-profit organisation, headquartered in New York, USA. Maria is an expert in marketing and communications, driving brand growth and spearheading innovative strategies across diverse industries. 

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

Passionate about entrepreneurship, Maria has provided students and graduate entrepreneurs with intensive start-up support for new ventures as a mentor in programmes such as BSEEN, in the United Kingdom. Currently, Maria is a mentor at Arden University, London United Kingdom, helping students to develop their startup products and ideas. 

With an unwavering commitment to innovation and enterprise, Maria is fully immersed in her technology start-up DEVELOPABLE LTD, in London, United Kingdom, utilising her vast experience and innovative mindset to drive its success. 

Independent, creative software builder. Been around from punch cards to cloud computing. Proponent of a model driven approach.

I like modelling. When creating software you first make a model of the problem and solution. That is what philosophers have been doing for ages: building a model in order to better understand the complex world around us. The model and the modelling language are abstractions, found in a creative process.

I've been an IT Consultant for some 25+ yrs, and a Web Developer for some 18+ years.  I enjoy Open Source software and like to give back how and when I can. I have done some extensive beta-testing for many different projects/softwares.

I speak English, French fluently. I also have some languages skills in German and notions of Norwegian.

I have been helping indirectly Joomla for years but actively to the Joomla project since ~ Feb. 2024.