Contao Open Source CMS Team
The Contao team has first been introduced at the user meeting in Wuerzburg, 2008. It was made up of some very commited people who had continuously been supporting the project since its first release in 2006 and until today dedicate a lot of their time to developing Contao, promoting the project, writing documentation, recording screencasts and looking after the community. Besides the official team, there are hundreds of additional developers, translators and other contributors who make Contao what it is today.
Leo Feyer
Core development, quality assurance
Leo, a 34-year-old programmer from Wuppertal, Germany is the founder and main developer of Contao. Inspired by the need for a robust yet simple CMS to offer his clients, and dissatisfied with the open source offerings, he decided to create Contao in 2004. He actively develops the CMS in addition to operating his web hosting and software development business. When he is not elbow deep in code, Leo likes to rock out with his guitar and play in local clubs.
Alexander Bröss
Team coordination, event organisation
Alexander is a 41-year-old spare-time web designer from Wuppertal, who has been working with Contao since 2007. Beside his agency, he dedicates a lot of time to the german community – especially in Nordrhein-Westfalen, where he is one of the founders of the first Contao network of free Contao web designers, the Contao Pool. He works full-time as a system administrator and proofs his ability of organisational skills in his job every day.
Andreas Schempp
Core development, documentation
After the first contact with the system in 2007, Andreas Schempp has started his own business in 2009 and has specialized in Contao right from the start. He works for small and mid-size agencies and supports their Contao projects as a developer and layout integrator. He is known for many extensions and as the main developer of Isotope eCommerce.
Clemens Hackl
Graphics
Clemens is a 36-year-old graphic designer by trade, running his own branding and media design studio in London, England, since 2001. He has worked with Contao since the very first release and has built over 30 websites (and counting) using the spectacular CMS. When Clemens is not in his office, he is either networking or on a plane.
Dolores Moser
News
Dolores is a passionate multimedia designer with a professional education. While searching for an easy to use CMS which supports creating complex and individual layouts, she found Contao in 2007 and has created many customer websites since then. If she is not working in her office, you can find Dolores in the social media, e.g. as @mosermu on Twitter, or on the Zürichsee setting sail on her "Marieholm-MS20".
Fabian Fauth
Event organisation
Fabian is a 37-year-old communications expert from Wiesbaden, Germany. Together with a partner he runs his own business specialising in public relations and internet communications. Fabian discovered Contao in August 2007 and decided to support the project because he believes in the community spirit of open source. His agency has completed more than 30 Contao projects so far.
Nils Müller
PR and marketing
Nils ist ein 38-jähriger Projektentwickler aus Hamburg, der seit 2000 als Freelancer und später mit eigener Agentur Kunden in allen Online-Fragen berät und deren Projekte umsetzt. Ein betriebswirtschaftliches Studium und langjährige Erfahrung in einer PR-Agentur umrahmen sein heimliches Steckenpferd: Die Frontend-Entwicklung. Contao setzt er seit 2008 bei nahezu allen Projekten ein, betreut den Hamburger Contao Stammtisch und ist zweifacher Weltmeister im Speedgrillen.
Nina Gerling
Accessibility, documentation
Nina is a commited web designer, running her own design studio in Berlin. She has actively followed the progress of Contao since the summer of 2007 and has launched over 20 Contao websites so far. Because she loves working with well-documented software, she has released an editor's manual for Contao (spring 2008). Her new project is the creation of a "perfect" Contao administration manual.
Thomas Weitzel
News
Thomas graduated as an industrial designer in the mid 90s. Nowadays, the 45-year old runs his own design company in Stuttgart and works for a range of national and international clients. He teaches media competence, digital image processing and presentation techniques at the State Academy for Art and Design, Stuttgart. He discovered Contao in 2006, in search of a powerful CMS that is reliable and easy to use. He has actively supported Contao ever since and also wrote the book "Mit Contao Websites erfolgreich gestalten". When he is not indulging in espresso, he enjoys being out and about with his camera and dreaming of the early flying machines.
Workgroup "accessibility" ¶
The Contao workgroup "accessibility" develops practical suggestions how to remove existing barriers in the back end and front end. It also works on a comprehensive online manual with concrete examples how to create accessible websites with Contao. The head of the workgroup is Nina Gerling.
Carolina Koehn
Carolina has been working as a web design and development freelancer in Kiel and Paris since 1997. She is a media designer by trade whose focus is on conception, information architecture, web standards and accessibility. She discovered Contao in 2006 and has used it since then for most of her projects for institutions and companies.
Marc Reimann
Self-employed since 2005, co-partner in the Mediendepot Ruhr since 2010 and responsible for all things Internet. He has been using the accessible CMS Contao since 2008 and he meanwhile ranks as a Contao yoda in the forums thanks to his sedulous activity.
Workgroup "core development" ¶
The Contao workgroup "core development" supports the development of the Contao core. Its job is e.g. to verify and evaluate incoming tickets, to create patches or to develop new features. The head of the workgroup is Andreas Schempp.
Stefan Lindecke
Also known as "lindesbs", Stefan is working on and with Contao in his spare time. He runs the Contao Forge, has developed Contao2Go and supports the core development as well as the extension development. Active IRC support and catalog fan. Too many ideas and solution approaches for too little time. Coding only, no CSS ;-)
Christoph Wiechert
Christoph, also known as "Psi" has been a Linux server adminstrator and web developer since 1998. Immediately following his studies in Information Technology, he joined 4ward.media, a web development company. He discovered Contao in mid-2007 and has not missed a user meeting since then. When not working on Contao, he can be found climbing mountains or on the dance floor.
Workgroup "extension repository 3" ¶
The Contao workgroup "extension repository 3" develops the server and client components of the extension repository on contao.org, with which the available Contao extensions are managed.
Christian Schiffler
Christian Schiffler, also known as Xtra, is an allround problem solver who is interested in technology and whose days have 48 hours. The self-employed software developer operates in Tübingen under the name of CyberSpectrum and by programming extensions like the catalog module, he is always busy making the Contao world a better place. Keeping with the motto: simply #codelicious.
Tristan Lins
Tristan Lins is a freelancer specializing in internet and network software development. He has worked as a part-time software developer for many years and recently started a full-time position in 2010. Since 2009 he has worked with Contao and has been an active community developer since 2010.
International ambassadors ¶
Our international abassadors have set themselves to represent Contao in their country in their own language, which e.g. includes translating the Contao documentation or supporting the local community. Many ambassadors additionally create own content like custom tutorials or blog about their personal Contao experience.
Cyril Ponce
Ambassador in France
Cyril graduated in Arts and Technologies in 1999. Today he works as a web designer and web developer in a services company in Valence (France). Before Contao, he used a lot of Flash/Actionscript, XML/XSLT and Asp.net/C# and only little PHP. Now he works with Contao and PHP all the time ;) In February 2007, he started to translate Contao into French and in 2008, he launched contao.fr - a Contao platform for French-speaking people. Cyril likes to play heavy rock with his electrical guitar after a hard day at work.
Kamil Kuzminski
Ambassador in Poland
Kamil is a 19-year-old freelance web developer from Lidzbark Warminski, Poland, whose main focus lies on PHP and Contao. He has created the Polish Contao website and has written a complete Polish Contao documentation from scratch. Kamil is a big fan of football and the Manchester United team and he loves to play Pro Evolution Soccer.
Paolo Brunelli
Ambassador in Italy
Paolo has been working in the IT field for many years as a web designer and web developer. Seeking a robust and versatile tool with intelligent user management, he discovered Contao in 2007. It was love at first sight and has remained his main working tool. Since 2008, Paolo has been offering help to other users through the site ContaoCms.it. He is also the coordinator of the Italian translation group, with precious assistance from three other people.
Takahiro Kambe
Ambassador in Japan
Takahiro has been working as a software developer and systems administrator for many years. He found Contao in 2008 while looking for good CMS with multi-domain support and he became a core translator in January 2011. He is also the maintainer of contaocms.jp, a Japanese Contao website, and one of the NetBSD developers supporting pkgsrc (NetBSD Packages Collection). Takahiro likes to listen to pop music and to watch musicals with his wife.
Former team members ¶
We like to thank the following former team members for their contribution to the project and their time and commitment over the years. We wish you good luck with your new projects and all the best for you and your families.
Anne-Kathrin Merz
News, documentation
Anne-Kathrin Merz, author of the german book "Contao - Das umfassende Praxisbuch" and Contao partner, has been working as a freelancer for web design, development and consulting since 2005. She is primarily advising small and mid-size companies and public institutions. When it comes to content management systems, she is mostly using Contao since she stumbled upon it in 2007.
Ben Robinson
Documentation, Videos
Ben is a 33-year-old web designer from Atlanta, Georgia and the owner of Emergent Media Group. He discovered Contao in November of 2006 and was immediately drawn to its features and flexibility. He supports it with the goal of mutual success for the system, the developers and the user-base and he has launched over 25 websites that use Contao. When not creating websites, Ben overworks his espresso machine, wins at bocce and tries to avoid trouble.
Peter Koch
Extension Repository, Development
Peter graduated 1980 as engineer for electronics and computer since at the Neu Technikum Buchs in Switzerland. After several years in research and industry, he started his own business of software development 1990 where he creates corporate solutions for logistics and warehouse management. He found Contao in summer 2007, when he decided to relaunch the website for the second major release of the BPS standard software which is currently under development. Peter has contributed several Contao extensions such as forum/helpdesk, the Extension Repository and different utility modules.