Speakers
Steve Alink
Home: Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Twitter: @duketowneu
Steve has been working in ICT for at least a quarter of a century. From being a programmer for financial and distribution systems, he grew into consultant and project leader.
Technology has always been a part of him and when looking for an easy solution to support his field hockey team, he fell, after some other open source solutions, for the simplicity of CMS Made Simple. Having more a technology mindset than having a designer eye, he was quickly preparing his own module to support the ranking of the hockey team. After that a series of other modules have seen the light such as: Service Desk, Birthday Listing.
Just when he started in 2007 with CMSMS there were no ecommerce solutions that were clear to use. He stepped in on the Shop, Cart and Payment Made Simple modules and extended them to what they are now.
He is the author of the book 'Simply build your site with CMS Made Simple'
and helped starting the user group in the Netherlands.
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Jeremy Bass
Home: Lewiston ID, USA
Twitter: @jeremyBass26
With Jeremy’s family business being computer consulting and network architecture, it was only natural for him to draw from the well. At 12 he found “view source” and notepad; it was all uphill from there. Getting his first paying gig at 15, he now has over 14 years of particle experience in computer aided graphic arts ranging from 3D animation to print design. Since he just could never get away from the requests in web design and custom JavaScript woupdiedo’s he started writing a CMS. Simple was the plan, to match a flat file system that he grew up with. In mid 2006, with work on the cBass cms going very slow, he stumbled on CMS Made Simple.
Sitting and playing quietly in the corner he realized this is the one. This is the platform he was dreaming of. It may not be a widely shared perception, but Jeremy looks at CMSMS as a dynamic flat file system replacement to a traditional workflow; which you’ll find his modules are laced with that point of view. Thinking of oddball ways to get the job done, Jeremy has been able to shove complex jQuery routines, flash apps and etc finally leading to today.
Armed with cheatsheets and years of practice in JS/CSS/HTML/AS/SQL/PHP/n’more, he is proud to stand with his fellow dev team members, and yells “Code baby Code” :D Cheers
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Jeff Bosch
Home: Grand Rapids MI, USA
Twitter: @ajprog
I have a degree from Grand Valley State University in Computer Science. I started programming doing business software maintenance and customizations.
I then mirgrated to web development working in C#/ASP.NET for my employer, and doing PHP/MySQL for some personal clients specializing in CMSms sites.
After a couple periods of programming employment lapses, I got fed up with working as an employee and started A&J Programming doing customizations with CMSms and other open source software.
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Anne-Mieke Bovelett
Home: Zaandam, The Netherlands
Twitter: @bovelett
One of Anne-Mieke’s favourite quotes is by Fred Adair: "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur".
She runs an agency in The Netherlands (Amsterdam area) focused on multi-media & marketing services. In her spare time she composes movie music, plays the piano and makes colourful paintings. She can’t avoid the genes she got as the daughter of an Oscar winning animator / jazz musician and a sculptor/painter, both originating from generations of artists and musicians. Nobody can tell where the stray commercial genes came from though.
After an extensive search in 2008 for a CMS that is friendly to end users and heaven for experienced designers and developers she fell in love with CMS Made Simple. In 2010 she joined our marketing team.
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Jean-Christophe Cuvelier
Home: Brussels, Belgium
Twitter: @totophe
Jean-Christophe has been passionate about IT from a very early age. He started programming Basic on his Commodore 64 and has used numerous programming languages since. He is now partner in a communication company in Brussels and heads up the online development team. The team started using CMSMS three years ago and it has now become the mainstay of our online service offering.
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Samuel Goldstein
Home: Los Angeles, CA USA
Twitter: @angst_ridden
Samuel has been programming since 1979, starting with Basic and Assembler on a TRS-80.
His early professional experience involved developing database applications in the banking industry, followed by seven years doing distributed systems research in a governmental nonprofit in the aerospace industry. Subsequently, Samuel has played various technical roles in internet-related companies and web-development agencies.
He is currently a principal at 1969 Communications.
His programming experience has been quite eclectic, involving C, Java, Ruby, Perl, Javascript, and PHP on many different platforms.
Samuel's non-technical interests include photography, literature, classic movies, hiking, and ceramics.
Samuel lives in Los Angeles with his wife.
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Jos
Jos is the stereotype example of a 'weekend php coder, weekday auto mechanic'.
He built his first html-website in 2002 to get public attention for a yearly event he organises. Two years later he heard of php and MySQL, read a lot in forums, studied tutorials and documentation and started to write his own scripts, like a simple guestbook and a buggy newssystem.
It took him till 2007 when he discovered CMS Made Simple and stuck with it mainly because of the flexibility regarding to templates and its intuïtive User Interface.
In the meantime Jos had set up a php driven website for his sportclub with a nice gallery-script that displayed large amounts of pictures for every club activity. He wanted to port this website to CMS Made Simple, but there was one thing missing... a gallery script that was easy enough to add pictures to.
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Ronny Krijt
When Ronny stumbled upon CMS Made Simple while looking for a good CMS a couple of years ago, he spent many hours on the forum and IRC, to get the additional information to complete his first CMSMS based site.
After the first site was completed, he remained on both the forum and IRC to support others that had questions to get their site up-and-running.
After having spent several hours in both the forum and the IRC, he is now leader of the Quality Assurance team. He is also moderator for the Dutch board and doing forum/irc-support.
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Ted Kulp
Home: Fairless Hills, PA, USA
Twitter: @tedkulp
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 almost 10 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, two daughters, and beagle.
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Sander Leeuwerke
Home: Haarlem, The Netherlands
None of Sanders sites were built using any knowledge of PHP. Without this knowledge it is possible to use all of the CMSMS modules to their full extent. It's possible using only HTML/CSS and some Smarty picked up along the way. With Digaid Sander does just that: Building easy CMS and E-commerce websites with a good user interface and a solid admin.
He's specialized in using CMSMS and a dutch E-commerce system called mijnwinkel.
Combined with experience as an inhouse computer specialist within a large real estate company and as reseller for accounting software, Sander can serve any small business.
Listening to his clients and getting back to them with exactly what they need, is his main concern with every project.
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Bruce Marable
Home: Philadelphia, USA
Twitter: @BruceMarable
Bruce Marable is a marketing and advertising professional. The majority of his career has been focused in the digital space, where Search Engine Marketing is his primary area of expertise. Bruce has experience working with various clients and industries such as healthcare, e-commerce, pest services, skincare, and pharmaceuticals, just to name a few. Bruce graduated from West Chester University with a B.A. in Communications Studies. He loves playing chess, people watching, and living in the moment.
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Martin Poettgen
Home: Bochum, NRW, Germany
Martin is a marketing professional for over 20 years.
In the 90's he succeeded in setting up laser billboard commercials for large brands like Coca-Cola, MARLBORO, Prince, BACARDI and others. Later he organized promotion campaigns for internationals like BOLS, CAMPARI, Grand Marnier, Metaxa. In 1999 the Pisang Ambon campaign was the first to publish promotion pictures on the brand website.
Beginning in 2000 he combined field marketing activities with online promotions, on- and offline games as well as classic advertising.
2006 he felt in love with cmsms and did about 50 installations. His focus today is on doing concepts and editorial work on several client pages as well as his personal favorite: video cut.
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Morten Poulsen
Home: Elsinore, Denmark
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.
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Mark Reed
Home: Arizona, USA
Mark Reed is known within the community as DrCss. Not surprising if you know we have not yet been able to throw a design at him of which he said: "Nope, I don't know how to do that".
His children actually warn people not to mention words such as "computer" or "web site" in his presence unless they enjoy enthusiastic talks about the subjects for hours.
Not only did he code the new layout of our main site, he's also one of the top 3 contributors in the forum and a specialist in the field of building and porting templates for CMS Made Simple.
Since early childhood Mark always wanted to know how things function under the hood. He dragged all kinds of mechanical stuff home and took it apart to see how it works. Guess what happened when he got his hands on a computer in the late 90's… And more so, when he discovered HTML. Notepad became his best friend. He got tired of having to change the menu structure by hand on all those pages and he found that you could do it with a software system on the server, a Content Management System.
He started checking out a lot of CMSs', none were setup in the way he was used to with flat files, until he found CMS Made Simple in March of 2006 and would never use another. In his words: "They just don't stack up…"
From student to expert and highly appreciated teacher, that's Mark!
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John Scotcher
Home: Maidenhead, England
Twitter: @jwebguy
John runs Pearson Treehouse Ltd, which, these days, pretty much sells nothing but CMSMS websites.
He also runs the subsidiary company 'The Website Treehouse' which sells website development services at 'trade' prices to resellers such as printers, graphic designers and IT support companies to sell on to their own customers.
John's been designing and coding sites for 13 years now, specialising in HTML and CSS. He's built countless sites in CMSMS personally.
When he's not working John is a keen writer and is writing his second novel. The first was published in 2004. John also loves walking and photography. His photos are on display at his personal website: www.john-d-scotcher.co.uk
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Peter Tindemans
Home: Heeze, The Netherlands
Peter is an experienced media designer. At the age of 20 he founded his company - focused on webdesign, development and advertisement in Heeze (near by Eindhoven, Netherlands) called "InTouch Design".
Peter: "Luckily I get to spend most of the day designing websites, and making creative solutions. Each day we turn old fashion websites in to silk design solutions. I have been fortunate enough to join in projects for some fantastic companies such as Philips and the Dutch Rabobank."
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Gerben van Wijngaarden
Home: Rotterdam Area, The Netherlands
After years of working in the field of marketing in general, I have in recent years specialized in Internet marketing.
For my current company I work as an Internet marketeer. I am daily occupied with SEA (Search Engine Advertising), SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Google Analytics. The fun of this kind of work is that no day is the same in internet marketing. Developments follow up on each other at a fast pace.
I have also built myself a few websites with CMS Made Simple, which are well found in Google (target is no.1 position).
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Latest News
Aug 6, 2010
We've posted a preliminary schedule for everyone to see. We've tried our best to make the presentations varied and useful to all different levels of experience, while still making sure they're hosted by members of the community who know their stuff.
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Jul 25, 2010
It's official. Our pre-conference workshops are now set and ready for signups. We've done our best to span the range of topics and make sure everyone can find an interesting workshop to fit their needs.
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Jun 17, 2010
The 2010 Geek Moot will be held at Casa400 in Amsterdam, which is located very close to the city center!
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