| Wilco Jansen |
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Wilco joined the Joomla! Core Team as Development Coordinator in September 2006, just hoping to make Joomla! even better then it was already. Since then, Wilco has accomplished a great deal. He was responsible for the overall organization of Joomla! Development as Development Coordinator; he is now a Board Member with Open Source Matters; he was the driving force behind the Joomla! Google Summer of Code 2006, 2007 & 2008 editions; and he was instrumental in the creation of the Joomla Bug Squad. During Wilco's tenure with Joomla.org and the Open Source Matters Board, Wilco has traveled the world to help build the Joomla! community. Along with his fellow colleagues from Joomla!, they have been instrumental in helping Joomla! to become the leading Open Source Content Management System. Wilco has a Bachelor degree in Business and Information Engineering and studied knowledge and Information Engineering at the Middlesex University in London. Wilco Jansen was an opening Keynote Speaker at the 2009 Spring CMS Expo in Chicago.
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Wilco Jansen was born in 1967 in the Netherlands where he still lives. After years of being a programmer, Wilco has worked as Project Manager and IT manager. He discovered Joomla! when he was creating his own content management system, and never lost focus after then.
