The CMSMS core team is made up of talented people dedicated to making the best open source CMS out there. Want to be on the team? Sure, it's possible. But it doesn't happen overnight.
Start small. Submit a patch here. Make a suggestion there. Hang out on IRC. Devote some time to the project and then you'll eventually just become a member of the team. And please, just don't be forceful or annoying. We're an easy-going group of people and we want to keep it that way. :)
Want to contact us? Click on a name or nickname to find our contacts. Or find us on IRC.
Ted Kulp
Location: Fairless Hills, PA, USA (GMT - 5)
Birthday: March, 1976
Position: Project Leader/Benevolent Dictator
Forum / IRC nick: Ted / Wishy
After 6 years of working in his father's metal shop doing drafting and machine programming, Ted fell into the world of professional software development. Now 5 years into it, there is no chance that he will ever escape the clutches of programming for a living.
He started CMS Made Simple while looking for something to do after throwing in the towel on the Boss Ogg project. The original idea was to find a CMS for mpd, but after getting frustrated trying to find the perfect one, he decided to jump in a build his own. It's all been downhilll from there...
He lives in the Philadelphia area with his wife, daughter, and beagle.
Samuel Goldstein
Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA (GMT - 8)
Birthday: 1967
Position: Developer, module maker
Forum / IRC nick: _SjG_ or sjg or variants thereof
URL: 1969web.com, www.madteapottery.com
Samuel has been involved with programming for over 25 years, starting with Basic and Assembler on a TRS-80. His professional experience began in the Aerospace Industry, and then he rode the dot-com roller coaster for as long as he could. Now, he is a principal at 1969 Communications.
If he won the lottery, Samuel would spend his time reading literature, studying history, building robotic artwork, and running a ceramics studio.
Samuel lives in Los Angeles with his wife.
Robert Campbell
Location: Calgary, Alberta Canada (GMT -7)
Birthday: June, 1970
Position: Developer, module maker
Forum / IRC nick: calguy100*
URL: techcom.dyndns.org
Tired of all of the complaints from aunt's, uncles, parents and grandparents of "Send me pictures!", and too cheap to go to walmart get copies made and mail them out to the horde, Robert decided "the family can get the pictures off of the web, all I have to do is build a website." A couple of years later after working hard at doing all the pages (rather badly) in pure HTML Robert stumbled upon CMS made simple.
Within 15 minutes it was up and operational, and he was busy looking into add this and that cool feature to his site. He soon dug in and began using his 13+ years as a unix/windows C++ geek in the seismic industry to his advantage in a new (to him) programming language, PHP. He's been writing addons for, and contributing little bits here and there to CMSMS ever since.
When he's not glued in front of the PC working on one program or module or another, he's spending time with the family and kids (all five of them), and trying to find time for all them fun but costly outdoor sports like 4x4ing, fishing, archery, hunting (and the list goes on).
Morten Poulsen
Location: Elsinore, Denmark (GMT+1)
Birthday: May, 1973
Position: Developer (mainly modules-oriented)
Forum / IRC nick: Silmarillion
Half a musician and half self-taught programmer Morten really never decided which career to focus on, leading to a life of a little of each.Living mainly off more or less freelance work as a pianist and music teacher, he likes to spend whatever time is left on different kind of computer projects, some of which is managed through a small consulting company of his own.
Having tried to manage some established CMS's he once decided to write his own Nuke-style CMS with a flexible plugin architecture, but it never made it that far off the ground (some sites do exist still running the system known as LiteNuke, though).
Discovering CMSMadeSimple, which presented some of the same philosophies as he had tried, somewhat unsuccessfully, to implement in LiteNuke, he decided to get to know, and try to help in the development of, CMSMS instead. He is both contributing to the core system and developing several addon modules.
Tatu Wikman
Location: Jyväskylä Finland (GMT+2)
Birthday: April, 1982
Position: Developer, CSS Guru
Forum / IRC nick: tsw
URL: tsw.backspace.fi
While trying to keep he's own, now long buried, CMS together with glue and gum, Tatu stumbled to the CMS Made Simple site and gave it a whirl. 20 mins later and a working site was born. Soon others followed and now CMSMS is the his choice for new sites.
After a few years working on IT field as self-taught sys-admin / webdesigner / programmer / consultant, he decided it would be good to have some papers to prove these skills (and get bigger paychecks). Now Tatu is an undergraduate at Jyväskylä University of Applied Science.
Elijah Lofgren
Location: Deatsville, AL, USA (GMT - 6)
Birthday: September, 1988
Position: Developer, module maker
Forum / IRC nick: elijahlofgren
URL: elijahlofgren.com
Elijah was planning to rewrite his CMS so that it would be easier for his family to use. Before spending the large amount of time that would require, he tried searching for a CMS that was easy to use but still powerful. His search ended with CMS Made Simple. It was much easier for his family to use and allowed easy hierarchical page organization (one of the features missing in other CMS that he tried). Elijah enjoys working on CMSMS and adding features through modules.
Elijah will be majoring in Computer Engineering at LeTourneau University starting in August, 2006.
Kevin Grandon
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA (GMT-8)
Birthday: November, 1984
Position: Developer, Main Website
Forum / IRC nick: SavageKabbage
URL: www.kevingrandon.com
After using CMS Made Simple for dozens of client sites, Kevin wanted to give back to the community that his made his career almost too easy. He is a 100% self-taught developer and has been creating websites for over 10 years.
Kevin is a professional website developer living in San Francisco.
René Helminsen
Location: Fredrikstad, Norway (GMT+1)
Birthday: January, 1965
Position: Tester and translator
Forum / IRC nick: reneh or variants thereof
URL: www.helminikon.no
He has been working/playing with IT since 1982 and is self-taught sys-admin / webdesigner / consultant. René started his own business in 2000 as IT consultant. He have education as physiotherapist and more than 10 years of such working. Circumstances made him start in his family business in 2002 as IT-administrator and with administration in general.
After some tough experiences with content updates of static web pages he wanted to just take care of the design and structure of the site himself and let other edit the stuff inside. While looking for a system which would save him time avoiding to update his business static web pages René discovered CMS Made Simple in the spring 2006.
After a short while with testing he had to consult the chat room about missing Norwegian translations of strings - and the friendliness that met him made him to contribute himself. He now uses CMSMS for the most of the sites he make.
René is now teamleader of TranslationTeam and does Norwegian translations. He also helps with crash-testing before new CMSMS releases.