2012 Speakers
We are delighted to announce some of the speakers that you can see At GeekMoot 2012. Announcements of the workshop and presentation program will be forthcoming soon.
John Flanagan
Home: Blackburn, UK
John has been senior designer at ITS creative since 2002. Along with his work a new media consultant for D & W and freelance jobs as well he is always busy!
John has a vast experience of design spending over 20 years as the head of the ND, HNC, HND and BA Degree Graphic Design courses at Blackburn College. He brings all this experience to his workshop for designers on the workshop day.
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.
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.
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.
Sander van den Broek
Home: Haarlem, The Netherlands
Twitter: @SanderBroek
Sander runs/owns two companies, Buildnet Webservices (www.buildnet.nl) and Inkopers-Cafe.nl (www.inkopers-cafe.nl). Buildnet is a small size business building websites (just technically, no designing involved). In 2011 Buildnet developed over 100 websites, webshops and webapplications. Most websites are build with CMSMS. Inkopers-Cafe is a leading dutch community for procurement professionals.
As a young boy Sander got fascinated by computers and software. The fact that you order a machine to do something and it actually does that... makes him happy. Internet delivered the option to order a machines world wide. How exciting :-)
Sander's opinion about CMSMS: "It's simply the best CMS around."
Robert Campbell
Twitter: @calguy1000
Robert graduated from College in 1992 and started his programming career in the oil and gas industry. Beginning his career as the sole developer on an existing, popular DOS based 2D seismograph interpretation system, his skills developed from involving customer support, software development through multiple positions up to and including being a software project manager for an international oil and gas software corporation. Robert has gained over 18 years of experience in software development, network administration in heterogeneous environments and project management.
In the early nineties Robert became a father. Soon 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 the software package 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 modules for, and contributing in large ways 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).
- Site Owners Room - open forum; ask us your questions.
- Design / Development Room - Module Development
John Scotcher
Home: Northampton, 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
- Site Owners Room - Using CMSMS an introduction to the system
- Site Owners Room - Working with pages
- Site Owners Room - working with Smarty tags
- Site Owners Room - the News module
- Site Owners Room - your site and search engines
- Site Owners Room - popular Modules
- Site Owners Room - open forum; ask us your questions.
Peter Orije
Home: Antwerpen, Belgium
Once upon a time I needed to find a free opensource CMS system for my Company, and guess what, I found it: CMS Made Simple.
I was really stunned by its simplicity I decided it was ideal for our clients, and began to use it regularly. Soon I started to develop my own modules for clients, which also turned out to be very useful for other users.
I started with Showtime Slideshow just out of curiosity. Now I am glad lots of other people like to use this module. I'me delighted to be able to present a walkthrough at GeekMoot 2012.
Tapio Löytty
Tapio Löytty is a self-taught programmer, loving new challenges and problems to be solved. Tapio: "About three years ago he joined #cms@irc.freenode.net and discovered this fabulous Content Management System. I was looking for a CMS that is flexible and easy to use for end users and decided to stick my head deeper and deeper into the CMS Made Simple world. I am proud to have joined the dev team and to be part of the active development of the next generation open source CMS." Tapio is about to graduate as a Software Engineer at the Satakunta University of Applied Sciences within this year. About himself he says: "I’m pretty relaxed and always joking about different kind of things."
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