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If you would like to get involved in this effort, please reply using the format listed below.

Name:

Education Level:

Skills
Programming:
HTML:
CSS:
Graphics:
Other:

Tools

How long have you been using Joomla?

How much time can you devote to this effort?
**This will not affect your ability to contribute.

NOTE: This is thread is not intended for comments to other posts in this thread. 

Name: Kenneth Crowder

Education Level: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Skills
  Programming: Expert
  HTML: Expert
  CSS: Intermediate/Advanced
  Graphics: Haha, No
  Other:
 
How long have you been using Joomla? Since the Mambo Days

How much time can you devote to this effort? 5-10 hours per week.
  **This will not affect your ability to contribute.

Name: Matthew Hayashida

Education Level: Middle School  (as of now)

Skills
  Programming: Edit not create
  HTML: Good
  CSS: Good
  Graphics: Ok-ish (learning on my new mac)
  Other:
 
How long have you been using Joomla? Year and a half

How much time can you devote to this effort? 10hrs/week (usually)
  **This will not affect your ability to contribute.

Name: Bruce Scherzinger

Education Level:

• BS Computer Science 6/1979 (Wright State Univ, Dayton, OH)
• MS Systems Engineering 6/2008 (George Washington Univ, Washington, DC

Skills
  Joomla Extensions: see Joomlander.Net for a list
  Programming (applicable only):
    Decent: C, C++, PHP, HTML, CSS, SQL, VBA
    Weak: Javascript, Java
    None: AJAX (just bought a Packt book on this)
  Tools:
    Editor: UltraEdit, PSPad, Eclipse, CodeWright, emacs
    IDE: Eclipse (PHP, vxWorks Workbench), Green Hills Multi (PowerPC/vxWorks), Visual Studio, GCC/GDB/DDD
    OS: MS Windows, Solaris, Linux
    VCS: PVCS, Subversion, Razor
  Other:
    Decent: Requirements analysis, technical writing
    Weak: Formal testing
 
How long have you been using Joomla?
  Since January 2006 (1.5 years)

How much time can you devote to this effort?
  No more than 10 hours/week until I finish my MS degree June 2008.

Name:
Tim Jones
Education Level:
Some college courses, no degree
Skills
  programming:
Entry level Basic, VBA, javascript, php

   HTML:
Intermediate
   CSS:
Intermediate
  graphics:
Experienced
  other:
I  am mostly a designer, Business owner of our corporate software, website and applications development.   

How long have you been using Joomla?
Since the beginning, two years with Mambo before that.

8 - 10 hours a week, depending on what is going on at the office

Forgot Tools
Photoshop - Illustrator CS2
Studio MX Fireworks Dreamweaver Flash etc
JCode
Navicat for Databases

Name: Ian MacLennan

Education Level: Bachelor of Applied Science, Electrical Engineering (University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)

Skills
  Programming: Intermediate (exposure to various languages, most familiar ATM w/ PHP)
  HTML: fair
  CSS: poor
  Graphics: poor
  Other: tetherball
 
How long have you been using Joomla?
Since Mambo days

How much time can you devote to this effort?
Not much at the moment, but I will drop by to help when I can.

Name: Tim Millard

Education Level:  Bachelors of Science: Comp Sci and English ('93)

Skills
  Programming: Various languages including C, PHP, VBA, SQL (some old dinosaurs like Pascal, Cobol, Fortran, even *cough*BASIC *cough) (Intermediate for most)
  HTML: (advanced) Java,  (intermediate)
  CSS: Intermediate
  Graphics: Expert
  Other: I have some writing background, and well as project management and communcations.

Tools:
Dreamweaver, PHPEdit
 
How long have you been using Joomla?
Started with a small Mambo site, been with Joomla for 6 months, active for about 3

How much time can you devote to this effort?
10+ hours a week

Name: Andrew Altamirano

Education Level:  High School (Class of '08)

Skills
  Programming:
      SQL - good
      PHP - ok
      Javascript/AJAX - none
  HTML: advanced
  CSS: advanced
  Graphics: intermediate
  Other: pretty good with PR, communications
Tools: Adobe Master Collection CS3
 
How long have you been using Joomla? Since 1.0.6

How much time can you devote to this effort?
varies, normally a few per week

Name: Geoff

Education Level: High School

Skills
Programming:
              php: intermediate; made a few simple mods for phpBB
              ti-84 (calculator ): intermediate
HTML: intermediate
CSS: beginner
Graphics: beginner/intermediate
Other:

Tools:
notepad++
Adobe Photoshop CS2
CuteFTP

How long have you been using Joomla? Over a year.

How much time can you devote to this effort?
**This will not affect your ability to contribute.
Varies per week. At least 1-1.5 hours/day.

Name: Amy Stephen, aka AmyStephen.

Education Level: Bachelor's Degree

Skills
Programming: Lots - IBM, Microsoft technologies, PHP, *no* object oriented programming (yet)
HTML: Yes - tons - some of you were not even walking.
CSS: Not nearly as much as I need.
Graphics: Good ones?
Other: My expertise is in data modeling, data warehousing and DBA work.

Tools

How long have you been using Joomla? November 2005

How much time can you devote to this effort? More than I should.

This user is actually jbruni. Please use that name when making contact.

Name: João Henrique de Andrade Bruni (from Brazil)

Education Level: Bachelor´s Degree

Skills
  Programming: LOGO classes (8 yo?), first BASIC-MSX program in 1989 with 10 years old, affair with Pascal around 1994, Delphi 1 enthusiast in 1996, moved away from computers and went to the woods for a while, and since 2004 mixing ASP, SQL, PHP... OOP enthusiast, trying to learn design patterns.  Most recent work (php): set up a virtual shop (eCommerce) upon LAMP, from scratch (runing well since june 2007) = almost professional ?
  HTML: I like everything well indented, clean and organized - HTML tends to be a mess... = intermediate level
  CSS: For each browser it is a diferent result! CSS means "testing in different browsers"... = intermediate level
  Graphics: I tend to mix hot colors, the result always seems "for kids"... I need the help of a designer... = basic level
  Other: people think I know too much; I know I know too little - once I asked "I Ching": "What is the mission of my life?" - the answer was hexagram 58

Tools
  Dreamweaver, SmartFTP, Photoshop
  downloaded some "PHP IDEs" but installed none until now - which one "joombies" should use?
   
How long have you been using Joomla?
  First heard around september 2006

How much time can you devote to this effort?
  I don´t know. It depends. Actually, I am very busy - I don´t know for sure why I am answering this. I´d like to paticipate. Very much. I don´t know if I will have the time...



[Global Mod Edit: Added first line about the other username. - ChiefGoFor]

Name: Jalil

Education Level: BSc. EE. 1983 Nottingham University, United Kingdom.

Skills
   Progr : Any Language.
   HTML: All
   CSS: All
   Graphics: Only 2D, never had the time for 3D and it looks really beautiful. Maybe in future.
   Other:
Retired now, I used to do System Level Design and Architecture down to Bits, Bytes, had to deal with Software/Firmware/Hardware and Protocols, but luckily not all at the same time...lol. Expericence is in Real Time Online Systems, a real headache if you ask me.

Weak in databases, last venture was dBase pre-windows days, then never looked at databases again ( never needed to ). SQL and mySQL scares the good spirit in me, but it kinda looks familiar. ( ok, instead of add or append you have insert...amazing how humans create terms for things which are actually the same ).

It is the design of the Joomla! that interests me, in that i see it can develop into a very strong system for content management, given some adjustments. Some very good systems design remain in existence today due to the philosophy behind the design, not due to the choice of language, and not due to commercial reasons (they are extremely expensive !). Others have become ancient history. Also Joomla! has the added advantage that PHP itself is very well designed. It's a wining combination. However, the design of Joomla itself is very good and hence will be able to stand on its own, irrespective of the language it is built upon. My salute and congratulations to the Joomla! Developers.

Tools
Just need a good editor. I use various but i find that Notetab Light performs extremely well. I don't need IDEs.
   
How long have you been using Joomla?
Maybe just under a year as of now ( Augus 2007 ), and discovered it while looking around for a good CMS to make webpages.

How much time can you devote to this effort?
Uncertain of this at this stage, i do this as a hobby. But unless i'm called to do something big, i'll be around to learn a bit, and help a bit. Doing this is fun for me.

Name: Xavier Contreras
French
Education Level: PhD (molecular biology)

Skills
  Programming: beginner (some basics of php and javascript), good at logic but need a lot of practice 
  HTML: intermediate
  CSS: intermediate
  Graphics: basic to intermediate
  Other:

Tools
 
How long have you been using Joomla? january 2007, much more for the last 3 months

How much time can you devote to this effort? well I work a lot already so essentially during week ends and sometimes in the evenings so I am not sure in terms of hours it can be very different from week to week depending on my work load.

Name: Ben Hornedo

Education Level: 2 years toward B.S.Cs (incomplete), various courses including Zends PHP courses.

Skills
  Programming: Solid (does Commodore VIC-20 BASIC count?)
  HTML: very experienced
  CSS: intermediate to advanced
  Graphics: Solid
  Other:speak multiple languages, have a nack for teaching, good at finding solutions, and finding understandable ways to explain things to people.

Tools
  NuSphere PHPEd
  Dreamweaver
  Jedit
  Linux (puppylinux, Debian, Ubuntu)
  XAMPP
  Photoshop
  Illustrator
  Fireworks
 
How long have you been using Joomla? 3 years, intensively.

How much time can you devote to this effort? About 8 hours a week, but I will pitch in more whenever I can.

Name: David McIlveen-Wright

Education Level: PhD Energy Studies (95) and MSc Environmental Management (96) at University of Ulster, N. Ireland; MSc Physics (78) at Brock U, Ontario, Canada.

Skills
  Programming: Mmm, Obsolete. BASIC and Fortran. Some C.
  HTML: Good
  CSS: Good
  Graphics: Useless! Basic Fireworks, Swish for Shockwave/Flash
  Other:  beginner PHP

Tools: Notepad, Arachnophilia (simple html editor), Dreamweaver, PHP Designer
 
How long have you been using Joomla? 18 months

How much time can you devote to this effort? 5-10 hours per week
  **This will not affect your ability to contribute.

Name: Sam Wierema

Education Level: Bachelor in Communication and Information Sciences (Utrecht University)

Skills
  Programming: PHP (Good) // Learning Javascript
  HTML: Advanced
  CSS: Advanced
  Graphics: Moderate
  Other:

Tools
Mainly I use a combination of Context / Dreamweaver for coding and Photoshop CS2 for image editing
 
How long have you been using Joomla?
About 5 months now (have written several components and modules)

How much time can you devote to this effort?
  Probably about 5-10 hours a week

Name:
My name is Scott

Education Level:
High School, self taught programmer.  Some college credits.

Skills
   Programming: Fluent in VB, VBA, SQL, Moderate PHP
   HTML: Fluent
   CSS: Familiar
   Graphics: LOUSY!
   Other:
       I've learned to glark very well.

Tools
   J!Code
  Tortoise SVN
 
How long have you been using Joomla?
  Since the Mambo days

How much time can you devote to this effort?
   **This will not affect your ability to contribute.
   Approx 10 hours/week

Name: Mitch Pirtle

Education Level: Some college

Skills
   Programming: Rusty expert, losing rust quickly
   HTML: Good
   CSS: Good
   Graphics: Decent for modification, font work
   Other: Comic relief
  Other other: Spend a lot of time dealing with system administration and scaling high-traffic sites

Tools
  Mostly Console
   Eclipse
   Aptana Eclipse Plugin
   Smultron
   Kate
   GIMP
   Fireworks

How long have you been using Joomla? Heh.

How much time can you devote to this effort? Comes in spurts, 5-10 hours weekly is the expectation right now. I'd like to be useful and productive, so I need to find where I can help with the most impact and progress.

Name: Ercan

Education Level: @university studying maths related stuff

Skills
  Programming: PHP and SQL novice, some basic knowledge of Visual Basic (never touched it for years though), Javascript beginner
  HTML: advanced
  CSS: intermediate
  Graphics: no creative and artistic talents
  Other: interested in oop and php design patterns and trying to learn them

Tools
  Pspad, Dreamweaver (looking for an IDE)

How long have you been using Joomla?
  About Jan 2006

How much time can you devote to this effort?
  Changes from time to time. 5-10 hours is a good range, I think.

Name: Larry Sall

Education Level: College 2yrs, then working in IT industry

Skills

I've been working with computers and programming since 1981 when my College Prof gave me my first UserID.  Within 24 hours I was debugging PDP11 Basic code into HP MPE3000 Basic and a week later the Science Dept had me writing a Chemical Inventory system in that same HP MPE3000 Basic.  I also worked at the college as a programming tutor. Currently I'm honing my php and HTML skills.

Programming: Self taught, C, C++. Pascal, Cobol, Fortran, Basic, RPG II, IBM MAssembler, VB, MS-Visual FoxPro (MS-VFP) and other proprietary products.
HTML: 2yrs
CSS: 2yrs
Graphics: As and end user
Other: Currently working developing Integrated solutions between warehouse management systems and package shipping applications such as UPS Online and Kewill product lines. Much of this work involves using the following DBMS environments: MS-SQL, MS-Access, DB3 (Apollo DBMS Engine), and MS-VFP. I'm also the webmaster for the local High School Marching Band where I've implemented Joomla!.

Tools: For PHP and HTML I use whatever I can, mostly text editors. Have tried a few IDEs in Windows environment none mentioned in the forums. 

How long have you been using Joomla? 3 Months after testing about 15 other CMSs

How much time can you devote to this effort? 2-5 hours per week, more after Marching Band season ends in Mid November

Name: Pieter van Horssen aka pvh123

Education Level: In computers since 1971 and a trained IBM programmer (COBOL), Sysems Porgrammer and did all the courses.

Skills
Programming: Expert
HTML: 3 years
CSS: Novice
Graphics: Very little
Other: I have done ASP programming

Tools I have using Dreamweaver for over 4 years now. Fireworks for the graphics .

How long have you been using Joomla? Since Beat 1 of 1.5 was started. Mostly helping out with the testing and helping out on the forum. I have also been converting a couple of 1.0.x templates to be used on 1.5, so I have some experience there.

How much time can you devote to this effort? 2-3 hours a day.
**This will not affect your ability to contribute.

EDIT: Fixed some orphaned tags in this post. - ChiefGoFor

Name: Plamen Petkov [plamendp]

Education Level: bachelor (1989)

Skills
  Programming: FORTRAN  ;D, Assembler, Pascal, C, PHP, JavaScript, Java (absolute beginner), SQL, OOP 
  HTML: very good
  CSS: good
  Graphics: little
  Other:

Tools
  A lot, can't count them
 
How long have you been using Joomla?
  I used Mambo. I witnessed the Mambo->Joomla! fork. Go figure 

How much time can you devote to this effort?
  1-2 hours per day.


Regards
Plamen Petkov aka plamendp

Name: Marcel van Brakel

Education Level: MSc in Buisiness

Skills
  Programming: expert
  HTML: expert
  CSS: expert
  Graphics: intermediate
  Other: Java (intemediate), Javascript (expert), ...
The expert parts are not meant to brag.. but been doin this professionally for over 7 yrs now.

Tools
    Zend
    Photoshop
    SmartFTP   
    Tortoise SVN
This is the basics i need for dev. Using more along the way though..
 
How long have you been using Joomla?
Since Mambo 3.something

How much time can you devote to this effort?
occasional (15-30min) Q&A support during my work, after work i spend like 1,5-2 hrs a day on Joomla components. Willing to use some of this time for the J! 101 too. After all if we get more ppl to create components, it will lighten all our work.

Name: Tim

Education Level: Some College

Skills
  Programming: Not Great
  HTML: Not great (can edit and do some basics)
  CSS: Fair
  Graphics: Better than fair
  Other:

Tools:
GIMP
Notepad
 
How long have you been using Joomla?
Since Joomla 1.10

How much time can you devote to this effort?
I can work as much time as needed.

Now, I can't do much yet. I'm planning on learning a lot more through this than really helping much with other people. However, if someone needs help with something I can handle, I am all for it. And I will do my best, all of the time. Like I said, I can't do much, but what I can do, I do it right the first time. Or, if I do mess up, I fix it.

I've got ideas for extensions for joomla, but not the experience to actually do it, so, I'd like to be a part of this!

Name: Mark Osborne

Education Level: University Entrance (a NZ level - basically just high school if not familiar with it) I left school 7 years ago now but didn't do any further education.

Skills
  Programming: Intermediate - very good general PHP skills but lack in areas of security, still learning lots of javascript DOM type stuff
  HTML: Expert
  CSS: Intermediate/Advanced
  Graphics: Expert
  Other: Good DB experience - MySQL, SQL, Access and other. I'm specialise in interface design and data process management/design
 
How long have you been using Joomla? Since the Mambo Days

How much time can you devote to this effort? Probably around 5 hours a week, but i am self employed and flexible so happy to see how things go.

Can I get in on this late? I'm finally settled work-wise and I am interested in learning to code for J!

Name: Toni Marie

Education Level: BS in mathematics, sigh... it might as well be an art history degree

Skills
  Programming:  I'm on the BASIC train with Tim... did some VB and now trying to get functional in PHP
  HTML: Extensive
  CSS: Intermediate to advanced
  Graphics: Photoshop skills fantastic, artistic vision not so much, intermediate Illustrator
  Other:

Tools: my big skill is picking up software concepts fast, so I'm at least intermediate at the entire Adobe suite, and can translate those skills to other software pretty easily.  I used to be a database administrator in Access, so I'm learning to translate those skills to MySQL now (I can already do quite a bit for editing, but I'm working on broad programming concepts)
 
How long have you been using Joomla? about 18 months

How much time can you devote to this effort? varies, but I'm trying to focus an hour a day on programming tutorials etc ... so maybe 5 hours a week just for J!101

Name:
Ewout Wierda

Education Level:
University law degree

Skills
  Programming: basic working understanding of javascript and php, basic understanding of MySQL
  HTML: fair
  CSS: fair
  Graphics: fair
  Other: IT law

Tools
AceHTML and HTML-Kit for html, css, javascript and php
Illustrator, Photoshop and Fireworks for images
 
How long have you been using Joomla?
Almost 4 months

How much time can you devote to this effort?
Depends, project-based is probably best.

I am still a Joomla and coding beginner but I feel I am getting to grips with it bit by bit. I made static websites in the past, and I am excited about the possibilities of a good CMS and have various ideas of what can be done - though I have not completed any site yet! My analytic and creative skills are reasonable and I tend to look at things from a user's convenience point of view. I can bring in professional expertise regarding the legal, fiscal, commercial and other aspects of projects and startups.

Name: Chantal Bisson

Education Level: 2e year Software Engineering

Skills
Programming: Intermediate/Advanced
HTML: Advanced
CSS: Advanced
Graphics: Good

Tools: Eclipse, Dreemweaver, Photoshop, SVN

How long have you been using Joomla!? Since the Mambo days

How much time can you devote to this effort? Around 5-10 hours per week in average

Name: Jorge Cesin

Education Level: Masters In Computer Information Systems

Skills Programming: PHP mid-level
HTML: Advanced
CSS: Advanced
Graphics: Fair
Other: XML

Tools:
Eclipse
2005 Ms Studio
Adobe Studio 8

How long have you been using Joomla? about 4 months (but, I have been using Mambo for over 2 years)

How much time can you devote to this effort? 10-15 hrs
**This will not affect your ability to contribute.