Contributor of the Month
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Alfresco's active community has collectively embraced the spirit of open source and given generously of their time, effort and skills. Each month we’ll spotlight a member of the community for their outstanding contributions. See How to Contribute for details on how to participate.
August, 2008 Rogier Oudshoorn
Working as a Senior WCM specialist at Capgemini, Rogier has worked as a tech lead on several web 2.0 websites backed by Alfresco. Using both WCM and ECM, he has been behind high-tech websites such as a financial solution finder a social networking site. His specialties include java-backed webscripts and customizing several ECM/WCM mechanisms.
His contribution to the community has been an adaptation of the Web Site Tools to work with Alfresco 2.2E. You can read more about it on our wiki or visit the forge to download the project.
July, 2008 Jean-Marie Pascal
J.M. Pascal’s aim is to promote and teach open source technology, particularly ECM. Since joining the Alfresco French language forums in early July, he’s already made a real contribution. He’s also developed two tutorials on Alfresco technology and will release a third one in the near future.
As a Capgemini consultant, J.M. is currently working on the "Rénodoc" document renewal system which has been set up to manage and digitize the documentary information of the French Air Force. Take a look at his node tutorial and his node service tutorial.
June, 2008 Adrián E. Jiménez Vega
Adrián E. Jiménez Vega works in at the Center of Information Technologies at the University of the Balearic Islands, in Mallorca, Spain. For two years, he has been building and deploying a custom application based on Alfresco to cover all the content and document management requirements at the University.
In parallel with these tasks, at present, he is finishing a Computer Engineering study project, and is basing his work on documentation management with the Alfresco platform
Since registering in the Alfresco Spanish forum approximately five months ago, he has dedicated time and openly shared his experience posting more than 200 times contributing many practical solutions and useful hints for members of the Community. The 'mini-guides' he has developed are now widely used and referenced by developers in Spain and Spanish speaking countries.
Adrián, also took part in the "Web Script Developer Challenge" with a Web Script solution to limit the space for users including, e-mail notification.
We would like to thank Adrian very much for his contributions, and wish him continued success working with Alfresco.
May, 2008 Romain Guinot
We are pleased to recognize the efforts of Romain Guinot as our May Contributor of the Month. Romain provides a tremendous value on the French language forums.
Romain, who works in the Open Source Center business unit for our French partner Atos Origin, played a key role on the document management implementation for 'La Poste', the French postal service that serves more than 100,000 employees. Learn more.
He's also an active contributor to other open source projects including QSOS an OSS classification and comparison tool, the K Desktop Environment and JBoss Reporting Services. Last but not least, he also contributed a Google mashup application for our Web Scripts Developer Challenge. You can find it in the Content Community. Congratulations to Romain and thanks for your dedication!
April, 2008 Cignex Technologies, Inc.
We are delighted to recognize Cignex, an Alfresco system integration partner, as our April Contributor of the Month. Cignex has earned a reputation as a leader in the design and development of open source ECM solutions and is responsible for more than 50 successful open source deployments.
When we needed to extend our forums to allow users to “reward” other users for providing helpful responses to forum posts, Cignex volunteered to write the phpBB addon module. In very short order, Cignex presented us with a project plan, we approved the plan and the work was completed, tested and installed.
Thanks to Cignex, we now have the ability to recognize community members who truly provide value on the forums. Learn more about how it works.
March, 2008 Javier Martinez Rojo
Our contributor of the month for March 2008 is Javier Martinez Rojo of Innovasoft-NT. Based in Murcia, Spain, Innovasoft-NT specializes in developing open source solutions that help clients achieve their content management objectives faster and with less cost than with closed source products.
In the four months since the Spanish forum was launched, Javier has given generously of his time and expertise by posting more than 175 times. He was the first and as yet is still the only member to reach “Community Guru” status on the Spanish forum.
Javier has been working with Alfresco since the early days of the product. His past Alfresco works includes a web-based content management application for the City Council of Murcia and a correspondence management system for another client. He is currently working on digital signature and document validation project, and a Java application for content digitalization. Congratulations to Javier and keep up the great work!
February, 2008 Ray Gauss II
Our February 2008 Contributor of the Month is Ray Gauss II. As CTO at RightsAssist, LLC., Ray is responsible for architecting and developing enterprise applications and integrating existing open source projects to create a unified rights and usage permission SaaS workflow known as RightsPro.
In 2005 RightsAssist began investigating open source digital asset management (DAM) systems with feature sets that included the generation and viewing of thumbnails of visual assets and the manipulation of embedded metadata as absolute requirements, among others. Although those particular needs were not met by the available Alfresco distributions, they felt that the product excelled in every other category.
Even in the early stages it was obvious to Ray that Alfresco’s architecture, documentation and thriving open source community were more than enough to justify Alfresco as the basis for developing their DAM solution. In true community fashion, not only did they implement the functionality they needed but they also contributed it back to the community as forge projects. The list includes Thumbnails, Metadata Embedders, XMP Metadata Extensions, and IPTC/EXIF Metadata Extensions.
Ray has also contributed bug reports and fixes through the Alfresco JIRA, he occasionally posts to the Alfresco forums, and he is an active contributor for several other open source projects. Congratulations Ray!
January, 2008 Russ Danner
Our January Contributor of the Month, Russ Danner has played a significant role in building the Alfresco community. As a software architect for Christian Science Monitor, Russ has been working with Alfresco software and has been active in the community since 2005. You can read a detailed description of the work that Russ has done for the Christian Science Monitor in the How I Use Alfresco forum.
Russ contributes to the community in a number of ways. If you’ve spent any time on the Alfresco forums, you’ve no doubt come across a post by Russ. At more than 450 posts to date, Russ has posted more times than anyone except the Alfresco engineers.
On the local front, Russ started the New England Regional Alfresco User Group to network with fellow Alfresco developers. This Boston-area group meets monthly in an informal setting to share code, use cases, demos, ideas and sometimes a beer or two.
Russ has also made a difference on the forge. He contributed an add-on to connect the Alfresco repository JCR adapter layer to the Jackrabbit JCR-RMI adapter, a collection of Visio stencils for working with Alfresco diagrams, and a Maven plugin for Alfresco.
On his blog, Alfresca, Russ discusses various topics around Alfresco software, development practices and community issues. Russ is an also active committer to many other open source projects and regularly speaks at open source conferences.
Russ truly embraces the spirit of the open source, community-based software development approach. Congratulations on being our January Contributor of the Month.
December, 2007 Jeff Potts
If you’ve been around the Alfresco world for any time, then you probably already know our first ever Contributor of the Month, Jeff Potts. As a seasoned content management consultant and the ECM Practice Lead for Optaros, Jeff works with clients to assemble content-enabled Next Generation Internet solutions using open source software and open standards.
Jeff has been a valuable contributor to the forums and the developer site wiki, and has also reported product issues in the Alfresco JIRA. However, what sets Jeff apart is the educational and insightful material he posts on his personal web site, ecmarchitect.com.
Anyone new to Alfresco can jump-start the learning process with Jeff’s series of clearly written, technical tutorials on key aspects of Alfresco. These tutorials present real-world business scenarios taken from Jeff’s consulting experience, and then walks the reader through the Alfresco customizations required to deliver the solution. Links to the code and supporting resources are provided at the end of each tutorial.
Some of the tutorials available include advanced workflows, web scripts, implementing custom behaviors, working with custom content types and developing custom actions. Jeff’s site also has his personal blog where he writes about a wide range of topics, many of which are relevant to ECM.
We encourage everyone to visit his site, learn from his experience and join us in congratulating him as December’s Contributor of the Month!
