Guido Jansen - regenerate
Name
Officially: Guillaume Xavier Jansen (but please just call me Guido :))
On-Line name (Skype:Twitter:Joomla forums)
skype: gxjansen
twitter: gxjansen
joomla forums: regenerate
Website
http://www.guidojansen.nl
, http://www.regenerate.nl
Location
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Job
I have my own company (Regenerate) in providing website conversion optimization, mainly with open source applications like Joomla and Magento.
If I weren't talking to you right now I'd be ...
At the moment I'm quite busy on organizing the Dutch Joomladays (www.joomladays.nl) and working on a great project integrating Magento (an open source e-commerce platform) into Joomla, creating possibilities never seen before within open source webapplications. Take a look at www.yireo.com for more information.
I wish people would take more notice of ...
using open source! Really, it's not that hard..
A phrase I use far too often is ...
I should be sleeping...
The most suprising thing that has happened to me is ...
I'm not easily surprised
I'm good at ...
working late
I'm very bad at ...
waking up
The ideal night out is ...
...one with my closest friends, starting of with playing some poker or pool and then going for a dance in a club.
The best age to be is ...
The one I am right now (didn't I say that last year too...?)
What did you dream of becoming as a child?
What, you're telling me I'm not a dreaming child anymore? Crap... :(
My philosophy on life is ...
- that you should always try to improve yourself (whatever that may be),
- that you should help others and
- that you don't enforce your opinion on others (the latter is kind of my grudge against (any) religion).
How did you get involved in Joomla?
Well I needed something to replace a simple, custom made website/ blog somewhere back in 2003. I tried several systems until I met Mambo. I've been using it ever since (well, I did 'switch' tot Joomla of course). In 2005 I founded a Dutch community for the product and the website became very populair in a short time providing the local community with it own news, translations and forum support. I've been involved with the local Joomladays and this year I'm the main organizer for the event.
I am involved in Joomla because ....
...I love being part of the open source ecosystem and contributing to it.
What one feature would you like to see in Joomla?
I really can't make a choice between an advanced ACL and a replacement of the current sections/categories system (tagging!)... Joomla will need both (fast) if it wants to stay on top of it's competitors.
What is the first extension you install in Joomla?
JCE. Not really any competition here is there...?
Complete the sentance "Joomla rocks the world because ..."
.... of its huge community that supplies us with great support, extensions and all those other other additional resources"
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