Partners
Rocky Burt
Gander, Canada
Rocky has provided expert software consulting services to companies across North America and Europe. He has extensive experience with many Python and Java based web frameworks and his work has included the integration of relational databases, LDAP, SOAP, JSON, and WSGI technologies. Rocky has contributed to countless open source projects, including Plone and Pyramid (the merger of Pylons and repoze.bfg). He created ClueMapper, a software project management environment built on Trac, which Jazkarta uses on all of its projects. His work for Jazkarta's client HaiVision included a custom Salesforce.com integration to track Plone file downloads. He served as a member of the Plone 3 framework team for 3 years, and has provided training on the Zope 3 component architecture. More recently he has been building web applications with Django and Pyramid. He is Jazkarta's resident guru on Dojo, the powerful Javascript toolkit.
Alec Mitchell
Los Angeles, California
Alec specializes in Python, Zope and Plone development, high-performance website deployment and optimizations, RDBMS integration, and integration with web services. On Jazkarta's Go-Botany project with the New England Wildflower Society, Alec helped develop Django applications with integrated Solr search and Google Maps. His open source contributions have been focused on core Plone. He was the Plone 2.5 release manager and is currently a member of the Plone 4 framework team. He has helped small and large organizations around the world get the most from their Plone sites by adding custom dynamic functionality, site-specific optimizations, high performance deployments, and integration with existing network services and applications. He has worked extensively on the Plone based KCRW website, Southern California's leading National Public Radio affiliate, including content delivery optimization and development of new web service APIs for flash media player and iPhone applications.
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Kapil Thangavelu
Washington, D.C.
Kapil is a Python and Java developer responsible for many significant contributions to the open source software community. Kapil has authored several core Plone technologies (including the versioning system) and numerous add-ons, as well as contributions to Zope, SQLAlchemy, and other Python projects. He has extensive experience creating web applications that can scale to handle large data sets. For Jazkarta's Bioneers project he developed ore.bigfile, a minimalist solution to the problem of uploading, downloading, and versioning very large files in Plone. Working with the Library of Congress, he developed the World Digital Library website, which uses Solr technology to provide a simple, multi-faceted UI for browsing and searching a complex database of artifacts. He is currently working with Canonical on an opensource cloud deployment and orchestration service, called Ensemble.
Ross Patterson
San Francisco, California
In 1999, Ross surveyed the various web application frameworks available and selected Zope as the clear winner. Since then, he has been developing web applications using Zope and then Plone in the non-profit, education, and commercial domains. Ross’ specialties include Python, Zope, Plone, JavaScript, AJAX, LDAP, JMeter, and FunkLoad. His many open source contributions have focused on Zope and Plone, and he is currently serving as a member of the Plone 4 framework team. On Jazkarta's Advancing Green Chemistry project, he developed collective.subcollectionview, a Plone add-on that provides a new layout for collections that lists the items in sub-collections in groups.
Lennart Regebro
Kraków, Poland
Lennart created his first Zope product in 1999, and has been developing Zope based content management systems full time since 2001. His open source contributions include EasyPublisher, Nuxeo CPS, as well as many Zope and Plone packages. He was one of the driving forces behind Five, the integration of Zope 3 into Zope 2. He is a sought after speaker and contributor to industry publications on the subject of Python, Zope, and Plone. He has recently written a book on porting code from Python 2 to Python 3. For Jazkarta's client Cambridge Interactive Development Company, Lennart created a process to automatically migrate a substantial body of legacy content to a new Plone site.
Shimon Rura
Boston, Massachusetts
Shimon has broad experience creating and developing web applications, ranging from rapid prototyping of new concepts to design, development, and maintenance of established products. His technical expertise includes Python (Django, Twisted), Javascript (JQuery, AJAX), Perl, Mozilla (Firefox Extensions, XUL), the Facebook Platform, and Google AppEngine. He is the creator of Voo2do, a task management system with over 60,000 registered users, and the lead organizer of BarCamp Boston, an unconference for local techies. Shimon has been a major contributor to Jazkarta's project with Aprigo, creating a product that uses Django and Google App Engine to track an organization's Google Docs usage.
Seth Gottleib
Northampton, Massachusetts
Seth is the founder and principal of Content Here, an analyst firm and consultancy specializing in content technologies. He has been a regular contributor to CMS Watch and is the author of Open Source Web Content Management in Java and other articles and reports that have received critical acclaim. Considered a leading authority on the open source content management marketplace, Seth has presented at international conferences including the Gilbane Conferences on Content Technologies, Content Management Forum, Enterprise 2.0, and KM World. Seth conducted an extensive discovery and design phase for Jazkarta's client Connecticut Humanities Council, in preparation for development of a major new Plone site to provide an online encyclopedia of Connecticut History.
Luke Aune
Duluth, Minnesota
Luke's design experience ranges from window displays to arts curriculum, from landscape to web. He’s dressed mannequins and composed thematic installations for retail clothing shops, conducted new-media workshops for high schools and the Walker Art Center, and created native plant sanctuaries for companies and residences. Luke earned a BFA in Interactive Multimedia from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and has completed coursework through the Institute for Public Art and Design. He is highly experienced in graphic design and theming Plone sites and has contributed to many of Jazkarta's projects.
Kevin Brooks
Portland, Maine
Kevin is a graphic designer and web developer specializing in standards-based web design, user interface design, and XHTML/CSS-based site layout. Kevin’s web programming skills have grown with the capabilities of the web - as a self-taught developer, he’s leaped forward from simple HTML pages and CGI scripts to more advanced AJAX development and beyond. He’s passionate about new technologies and their effect on developers and users alike. On Jazkarta's project with Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, he did all the HTML and CSS development and became proficient at theming a Plone site using Deliverance.
