Developer Documentation Guru Appointed to Core Team

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Joomla's newest appointed core team member, Chris Davenport, believes open source software brings collective benefit to people from all walks of life.  In fact, it was a hard-nosed business decision which drew him to open source and the project, having seen he got more "bang for his buck" compared to proprietary software.

Chris, who lives in a village called Battlefield, near Shrewsbury, in the UK, has years of experience in IT and management.  He is presently a non-executive director of a small manufacturing business but has always kept a handle on IT.  His appointment to the core team will involve coordinating and creating developer documentation.

"Over time I found that open source is generally more flexible and better supported," he said.  "If you can speak the same language as the developers, then they are very amenable to fixing bugs and making improvements.  The same approach with proprietary companies falls on deaf ears; there's not the same ownership and pride that you get with open source."

Read the full announcement here: http://www.joomla.org/content/view/2365/74/

Discuss here: http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,118450.0.html